Movie Review: Shrek The Third

Usually, when movies have sequels that are as good or even better than the original, there is a third movie, but however, the only third movie to surpass the first two movies was 'Toy Story 3', or 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', as for other movies, the third installment is always rough, how do I know? Just watch 'Batman Forever', one of the worst movies in the 1990s Batman movie series, or Spider-Man 3, a very disappointing and depressing movie, especially comparing to the first two which where incredible, or Pirates of the Caribbean, which had an excellent first installment, and an even better second one, the third one ended up to be unexpectedly mediocre, and now there is Shrek, which had an excellent first two movies, but now with Shrek the Third, I see the complete opposite of an excellent movie, it had various problems which were easy to tell through the movie.

The third Shrek movie is about Shrek, tying to get the last living air to the Far Far Away Kingdome to become king, because he wants to live in his swamp with Fiona, and because his father in-law 'King Harold' has died, there is also a sup-plot in the movie, about the movie's main villain, Prince Charming who wants to become king of far far away, so he invades it, then at the end of the movie, both plots get together to end as one, which is a good idea, but unfortionetly, the plots to begin with where not very entertaining to begin with.

Like always in the Shrek series, there are always a handful of new characters, this movie brought in Captain Hook, Snow White, Cinderella, Repunzul, Merlin, and Artie, unfortionetly, five out of six of those characters, where so poorly developed, and did not really have a big purpose in the movie, the only character that was worth knowing in this movie was Artie, who is the last living air, and Shrek's replacement as king.

There where also allot of unnecessary things in the movie as well, such as Donkey and Puss switching bodies, that was funny, but unnecessary, also, the running joke of Captain Hook always playing a piano was painfully unnecessary, and another unnecessary thing in the movie, was the amount of time everyone waited for Fiona, her mom, and all her princess friends to escape, Fiona's mom headbuted the wall to break long after they were put in the prison cell, while she could have just done it when the guards left.

There where also some painfully bad jokes, especially surrounding Prince Charming, or Fiona's princess friends, allot of the jokes put in where childish, unfunny, and basically nothing compared to the jokes in the first two Shrek movies.

Thankfully, Donkey and Puss where there to save the movie, despite having a few bad or unnecessary jokes, most of jokes they were included in where very funny, such as Puss and Donkey trying to cope with the other person's body, or one of them forgetting that they switched bodies, most of the body switching jokes where unnecessary, but still funny, there were still some funny jokes which included Shrek or the usual fairytale characters, but that was mostly it for the good things in this movie.

With the fun action scenes in Spider-Man 3, or the smart story, and action scenes in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Shrek the Third is not so different, it has some great jokes, and that was pretty much it, you see, most third installments, or threequels usually have just one or two major positives that saves them from being an entirely bad movie, which makes me hope that 'Iron Man 3' or the third Batman Nolan movie is the same, but I can't help to think that they may turn out mediocre or bad, I know that I should have hope that they would be good, but unfortionetly, Shrek the Third was the last piece of hope I had for a good threequel that was not adapted by a book, or made 11 years after the second movie, so Overall, Shrek the Third was near to being mediocre, but even mediocre is not good enough to make a good threequel for me, or maybe even anyone in that matter.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 4
-Story(out of 8)= 3
-Plot(out of 8)= 3
-Actions(out of 6)= 3
-Effects(out of 4)= 4
-Character Developement(out of 8)= 2
*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 19
2 Stars


*Rating System:
0- 7= 0 Stars
8- 14= 1 Star
15- 21= 2 Stars
22- 30= 3 Stars
31- 35= 4 Stars
36- 40= 5 Stars