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Starring:
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Rupert Everett, Eric Idle, Justin Timberlake, Susan Blakeslee, Larry King, John Krasinski, Ian McShane, Cheri Oteri, Regis Philbin, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen, Maya Rudolph, Amy Sedaris, Kelly Asbury, Tom Kane, Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Mark Valley, Conrad Vernon, Cody Cameron, Christopher Knights, Aron Warner, Jasper Johannes Andrews, Guillaume Aretos, Zachary James Bernard, Andrew Birch, Sean Bishop, Kelly Cooney, Walt Dohrn
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Chris Miller, Raman Hui
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Andrew Adamson, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jon Zack
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Shrek the Third (2007)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 19th, 2007
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Third strike... you're out of ideas
I'm not going to waste too much of my time reviewing this movie. Sure, there's stuff in it to giggle over and I must have no heart to rate it so marginally, but that's essentially what the movie deserves.
There are people who believe that you shouldn't judge sequels in comparison to the other movies in the franchise, but it's a little hard when the mood of certain movies is set based on the previous installments. In the first Shrek, you got to meet someone that any outside could identify with. Great. Once that was established, the second movie had it easy by only needing to introduce some new and fun characters.
It's the main reason why I liked the second movie more than the first. Choosing to have a popular gay actor (Rupert Everett) do the voice of Prince Charming, the representation of what all little girls are supposedly pining over in their dreams, was a stroke of genius. I'll also point out the obvious by stating that getting Banderas to do a riff on his Zorro character for Puss in Boots was genius as well (but that might just be because I like cats so much).
The problem with the third movie is that the mood has already been set and newer characters have already been introduced. So what next? Add even newer characters? Time after time we've seen that this doesn't work with great success. We get to add the future King Arthur here (voiced by Diaz's former boyfriend Justin Timberlake - Gee... I wonder how he landed THAT part?) and it's made awkward with the personal circumstances of the stars.
While I really enjoyed (and it's one of the few things that I DID really enjoy) the addition of Amy Poehler as the voice of Snow White, there isn't much room to wiggle for the newer characters. They're viewed more as intrusions than anything else. The only other new character that I liked was that of Eric Idle as the new-age obsessed Merlin.
The storyline is also weak. While it's about Prince Charming finally regaining his "rightful" place as the King of Far, Far Away, this idea is never really examined. He lets the kingdom fall to pieces and cares more about being an actor than anything else. Where they could have capitalized on the villain aspect, they fall short.
There's this angle of moving forward and demonstrating that even ogres can reproduce, but it's an angle left mostly unexplored.
This movie - quite simply - was one made for the money. It most certainly will make that. However, it successfully ends the series. Which might have been a good thing after all.
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 | Zombie Boy
May 19, 2007 4:22 PM
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| I didn't like the first one. I didn't see the second. I'm trying my damnedest to get out of seeing this one. Boo Bear is on lockdown punishment this weekend, and has been informed that ANY infraction will negate her seeing this next weekend. |
 | B Movie Ben
May 19, 2007 4:55 PM
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| One was enough for me. Three is stretching it for any movie. |
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May 19, 2007 4:48 PM
I need to get the kid to learn how to give a negative review. She likes pretty much everything that she sees and if she doesn't, she'll just get bored and wander off instead of finishing watching it (this is at home with DVDs).
But she's become a STELLAR movie goer. She's quiet, doesn't ask questions, remembers to use the potty right before the movie starts to avoid needing to go in the middle of it. I know kids older than her who can't sit through a movie as respectfully as she does. Hell, I know adults who can't.