Shrek the Third (2007)
No matter how well you try to raise your kids, they end up disappointing you at every turn, don’t they? Take King John Cleese and Queen Julie Andrews in the Shrek movies: Their beautiful daughter, an only child, was raised as a princess. How does she repay them? Instead of marrying Prince Charming, she marries an ogre. She takes the form of an ogre herself, even when given a second chance to reverse the curse. And when it’s time for her and her husband to inherit the throne, they don’t want it! All those poor parents did was lock her in a tower when she was younger – was that so bad?
All kidding aside, even though the Shrek movies have a fairy tale setting, they are pretty realistic. When someone’s a thorn in your side, they continue to be as the years go by. Shrek was argumentative, coarse, and disrespectful when he first met his in-laws in Shrek 2, and in the next movie he doesn’t learn his lesson. Rather than immediately stepping up to the plate and learning as much as he can about ruling a kingdom, he wallows in his bad mood and tries to weasel out of his inheritance. Who’s the scapegoat? Fiona’s teenaged cousin, voiced by Justin Timberlake. While Shrek tries to find the kid and convince him to take over, Prince Charming (hooray, he’s not out of the picture!) tries his own takeover.
Of the four, this one probably has the most drama in it, so if you’re expecting to laugh as much as you’ve been doing during the first two movies, you might be disappointed. But if you’re expecting a lot of whining, some sad events, and quite a bit of battle scenes, you’re in a good position to enjoy it.
More Julie Andrews movies here!
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Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2001's Shrek here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2004's Shrek 2 here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2010's Shrek Forever After here!
All kidding aside, even though the Shrek movies have a fairy tale setting, they are pretty realistic. When someone’s a thorn in your side, they continue to be as the years go by. Shrek was argumentative, coarse, and disrespectful when he first met his in-laws in Shrek 2, and in the next movie he doesn’t learn his lesson. Rather than immediately stepping up to the plate and learning as much as he can about ruling a kingdom, he wallows in his bad mood and tries to weasel out of his inheritance. Who’s the scapegoat? Fiona’s teenaged cousin, voiced by Justin Timberlake. While Shrek tries to find the kid and convince him to take over, Prince Charming (hooray, he’s not out of the picture!) tries his own takeover.
Of the four, this one probably has the most drama in it, so if you’re expecting to laugh as much as you’ve been doing during the first two movies, you might be disappointed. But if you’re expecting a lot of whining, some sad events, and quite a bit of battle scenes, you’re in a good position to enjoy it.
More Julie Andrews movies here!
More Eddie Murphy movies here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2001's Shrek here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2004's Shrek 2 here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2010's Shrek Forever After here!