My Movie Review: Shrek: Forever After

My Movie Review: Shrek: Forever After

1.5/5

Opening Statement: Another installment to the box-office successful franchise, in the beautifully animated Dreamworks fairytale. Shrek has gone through many adventures. Now once he hits the "happily ever after" nothing seems "happy" about it. Totally taking inspiration from It's a Wonderful Life, Shrek makes a deal with the deceptive Rumpelstiltskin to live one day like he use to, surprisingly there is a loophole. Now he must win back Fiona in an alternate universe where he never existed.

What's Good: A step up from the God-awful third film. The film has a good way of pulling you into its little world at times. And often you find things on a path where they can become quite interesting, but then they stray away from that path.

What's Bad: This franchise was tired after the second one was released. I don't care anymore, I don't care about the adventures of Shrek, the jokes are old and recycled, and I often find the humor in these movies painful. We as movie critics made the mistake of praising the first one so highly that Dreamworks decided it needed to be a series to take our money again. There is no heart in these films, they are just being made for money now, money from parents whose kids beg them to see it. Kids will be aroused mostly, but the inner child in me would be bored.

My suggestion to parents is to convince your children to see the beautiful How to Train Your Dragon again. At least in that Dreamworks film there were characters I cared about, and conflict with adventure. It says "The Final Chapter" lets hope it stays that way. These are some of the most annoying characters in the history of film. Especially Rumpelstiltskin himself, who makes an unbelievably annoying villan, that was the point, but the point is delivered at the audiences expense who pay extra for a pointless third dimmension just to be annoyed. A waste of my time, and a waste of money.

Consensus: If you looking to give Shrek another shot after the third one, don't bother. He has failed you again. Please refrain from seeing this film and if the kids are begging and yelling to see it, at least try to avoid the expensive 3D.