Shrek Forever After Movie Reviews

Midlife crisis, Shrek (Mike Myers)? Yup. Specially when you are forced to rise and shine everyday with the cheery cackle of your brood; when you must burp and feed them and dabble with ogre shit relentlessly; when you must parrot `Ever After' each time wife Fiona (Cameron Diaz) mumbles `Happily' on the dinner table; when you can't snooze in your favourite chair because high-spirited friends, Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss (Antonio Banderas)

‘I am no longer an ogre, I am just a jolly green joke’ : with this line, Shrek sets the tone for the fourth and final instalment of the super-successful `Shrek’ franchise. The film opens with Shrek ( Myers) playing the doting daddy to three demanding ogre-lets, as beaming wife Fiona( Diaz) looks on approvingly. The tiny ogres who do what all babies do : feed and burp and poo, keeping Shrek on his toes, as he shuttles between diaper changes and chucking

The Frank Capra hangover continues. So, after Gurinder Chadda’s It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, we’ve got Shrek Forever After, in which Shrek, taking a page from Capra’s classic It’s a Wonderful Life, discovers what a mess Far, Far Away would be if he had never been born. Thankfully Forever After, the last in the series, is far better than the clunky Shrek the Third but it can’t match the originality and sparkle of the first two films.

Given that Shrek Forever After is the first film in the franchise in 3-D, it’s surprisingly flat — and we’re not just talking about the look of it. This fourth and allegedly final installment in the series is lifeless, joyless and woefully devoid of the upbeat energy that distinguished the earlier movies — well, at least the first two. If Shrek the Third from 2007 felt tired, Shrek Forever After is practically narcoleptic.

Shrek's (Mike Myers) facing a mid-life crisis. After marrying Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and fathering three tiny green tots, he's in dire need of some self-time. The mud baths and scare sessions are replaced with changing diapers and being a good husband. Not happy with the way things turned out, he makes a dubious deal with the wicked Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) to trade one day in his life and make everything like before.