Shrek Forever After (2010)

I thought it was a good way to end the Shrek series. I didn’t cry because it was the last one but because it was emotional when [spoil]Shrek told Fiona about their kids and Fiona said she’d always wanted to have a daughter named Felicia.[/spoil] I always cry when everything becomes emotional. :laughing:

Thought you guys here might appreciate my take on the summer sequel business:

Forgive me Basil, but are the people in the photos Pixarians or something? :question: I don’t get the joke… so please excuse my ignorance…

I assume that’s him and his friends, but I’m confused as well.

To answer your question - that’s an internet meme. The Reaction Guys. People make comics like those to show their disliking towards one thing and their liking towards another. :stuck_out_tongue:

This guy’s got it. Sorry; didn’t know the reference would fly over your heads (thought it is more popular in gaming circles than movie sites). D:


[size=75]Thanks dad, for the… breast-hat.[/size]

I went to watch Shrek Forever After in 2D today using a free cinema voucher. In my opinion, I wish I had paid for the ticket, as this movie exceeded my expectations, and is worth at least a matinee. Not exactly top-grade Pixar-level, but definitely one of DW’s better efforts and a must-see for fans as a final farewell.

Shrek (Mike Myers) is living the best days of his life, but after a funny ‘Groundhog Day’ sequence, we realize he’s jaded and believes he has lost his ‘mojo’ as the once feared ogre of Far Far Away. Our not-so-Little Green Man is going through a mid-life crisis, and after a heated confrontation with his wife Fiona (Cameron Diaz), he turns to the fairy-tale version of a hustler, Rumpelstiltskin (story artist Walt Dohrn in a scene-stealing role) to grant him one day to be the fearful ogre he was once was. But when Rumpel tricks Shrek into signing away the day he was born, Shrek realizes the alternate Far Far Away is far worse off without him. His best friend Donkey (Eddie Murphy) doesn’t recognize him, Puss (Antonio Banderas) has dropped his swashbuckling job and put on the pounds, and Fiona is the leader of an underground ogre resistance against Rumpel.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because this “metaphysical paradox” (in the words of Rumpel) has been done before in movies like ‘It’s A Beautiful Life’ and ‘Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause’. With one day to save his friends and family, and find a way home, it also feels like the TV show 24, with a touch of Braveheart.

But as I always say, having a storyline with a precedence does not count as an argument against a movie. Shrek 4 transcends the predictable plot by investing more character development and emotional pathos than it did in the last installment, and in my opinion, it is the darkest and most intense Shrek of all. There’s a palpable sense of not just the kingdom at stake, but Shrek’s very existence. The first Shrek is still the best, but it is sunshine and rainbows compared to this. Rumpel is a genuinely menacing villain and he does has stronger motivations for his beef against Shrek than Fairy Godmother or Prince Charming.

Shrek’s parting message brings the whole series full-circle, and shares similarities with Toy Story 3 on existentialism and how there’s no such thing as a redundant person (or toy, or monster). By the time we reach the last scene of Shrek’s saga, I could hear people in the audience sobbing. I didn’t cry, but I was just as teary as I was for Toy Story 3 (though for a different reason; [spoil]Shrek declaring his love for his family and friends and the line about Fiona being the one who saved him the day they met was really touching[/spoil]). It’s not as cute-endearing as HTTYD, or as good-looking as TS3, but it is every bit as heartwarming, and definitely another step in the right direction for DW. A fitting coda to the greatest fairy tale parody of all-time.

Girl, actually. xD No worries, people usually mistake me for a guy. It’s a given with all my knowhow on the Internet… most of those peeps are guys.

Also, wh-

so you mean this Shrek is actually heartwarming and beautiful? ARE THERE NO FART JOKES? 8D Please tell me. It would be too good to be true…

fat!Puss in Boots still scares me though. Blame DeviantART…

My friends and I have now watched both Shrek 4 and TS3, and while we all agreed that TS was the superior of the two, Shrek was one of DW’s better efforts. :slight_smile: My best mate actually revealed he teared at both endings, as did I.

With regards to flatulence humour… uh… I can’t recall any. There was a ‘fake pee’ gag at the beginning, and the usual ‘punch-in-the-face’ slapsticks, but I actually found most of the jokes the funniest in the series since the first movie. I especially liked Donkey’s gags (like the one where [spoil]he slurped eyeballs out of his nostrils and did a ‘talking mouth’, or his second first-encounter with Dragon to disastrous results[/spoil]). Oh, and Gingey [spoil]gets eaten[/spoil]! Guess-whodunnit? :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, and Paunch-in-Boots isn’t as bad as he looks. He doesn’t get much screentime anyway. :slight_smile:

Very good post.
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Ah spammers they are everywhere aren’t they?
Now for my thoughts on Shrek 4. It was entertaining in places, better than the 3rd and had an interesting villain but the storyline fell a little flat and the problem was resolved way too quickly, they milked this franchise way too much and it has finally died.

Doesn’t that website give you viruses?

I would guess it would give viruses as it comes from a spammer.

I was expecting to have a great time on it, forgetting the horrible fate it has had, however I found it unnecessary, boring and unfunny, for me it was the worst chapter from the Shrek series

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Eh, the one thing I can say is I hated the 3rd more. It was way too predictable, though. :frowning: