Shrek Forever After
Directed By: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Mike Meyers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas
Rated: PG
1 hr. 33 min.
Everyone's favorite green ogre returns in the "final chapter" of the Shrek fairy tale. Shrek (Mike Meyers) is worn down by his hectic life with the wife Fiona (Cameron Diaz), his three ogre babies, tourists invading his swamp, and not getting a moment to himself. Fed up, he explodes at the triplets' first birthday party, and cunning Rumplestiltskin (Walt Dohrn) overhears. Rumpelstiltskin tricks Shrek into a contract where he trades a day from his early life to have a day for himself. It backfires, as magical contracts do, and Shrek is thrust into an alternate world where Rumpelstiltskin is King of Far Far Away, Fiona is the leader of a renegade war group of ogres planning a rebellion, Donkey has no clue who Shrek is, and Puss (Antonio Banderas) is a pampered fat cat. Shrek has one day to figure out how to break the contract, or he disappears...forever.
The first Shrek film is fun, and a personal favorite of mine. However, the second and third films' stories felt thrown together for the sake of having two popular sequels. Shrek Forever After brings back a lot of the fun and originality of the first, probably because it is almost a complete reworking of the first film's plot. Plenty of funny moments for the whole family occur, particularly with lazy Puss. Actually, the immature child in me cracked up every time Rumplestiltskin's pet goose appeared on the screen.
Despite being slightly ridiculous at times and a basic reworking of the first film, and despite having a neatly-tied-up ending, Shrek Forever After is a great way to wrap up the Shrek story and a wonderful family film.
Grade: A-
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