Three strikes and you're out in baseball. I think Shrek 3 is the third strike for whoever produced the trilogy. Hopefully, they won't make any more. They probably will though. I'm sure they made enough money to think that people liked it enough for a forth installment. Heck, I put down my money. I do wish I could get it back.
Why was Shrek 3 so bad? Here's a quick example. The king dies...I mean croaks. He does it several times. Once or twice seeming like he's dead, but then he comes back to life, that's kinda funny. Seeming to "croak" three or four times with the (now) annoying Donkey and Puss and Boots making stupid comments, that's too much. They carried the scene too far. Then, during the king's funeral, "Live and Let Die" by Wings plays on the soundtrack. It was totally inappropriate. The song is about growing cynical (my interpretation of it), so how does that fit in with a funeral scene? You should be bitter and angry now that he's dead? You don't get that at a lot of funerals.
This movie just completely abused the music. One of the best things about the first movie was the soundtrack. The scene where Shrek wrestles the king's army to "Bad Reputation" or when the Proclaimers "I'm on My Way" plays along as they are walking, those were fabulous uses of the soundtrack. A bad cover of "Barracuda" playing along while the women kick booty, just din't work for me. Mainly because the cover was soooooo bad. I mean really, just pay the extra few bucks and get the original.
I won't even go into how stupid the story was. Why in the world would you ever include dinner theater in this movie and then turn dinner theater into a venue for public execution like a gladiator match? Seriously, that was just preposterous. Again, the film went too far. Maybe that was there plan. I can hear it now. "Okay, people, we've made two of these before. Now, let's make a third and just add more of everything. Add more jokes until they stop laughing. Add more stupid plot lines until they don't know what's going on. Heck, they'll still give us their money, because more is better."
at June 12, 2007 11:42 PMSo run, not walk, away from this one?
Posted by: Kate at June 13, 2007 11:56 AMyes, run! oddly enough, the funniest scene in the movie for me was when shrek tries to talk "teenager" - sho nuff - to artie, the would be king. artie runs away from him, shouting, "help, help, i've been kidnapped by a monster trying to relate to me." that's exactly how i felt about this movie. it was trying too hard and failed miserably.
Posted by: hope at June 13, 2007 1:46 PMRecently reviewed all parts of the film , but most of all liked Shrek 1....
Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad's bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend...