{"id":22468,"date":"2007-05-22T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/movie-review-shrek-3\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T22:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T22:17:27","slug":"movie-review-shrek-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=22468","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: “Shrek 3”"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY MAGGIE SCOTT<\/p>\n

Can a curmudgeon convince family, friends and fairy tale kingdom of Far Far Away that he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just being difficult; he really, truly isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t qualified to be the realm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next king?
\n Opening the next chapter, “Shrek 3”, of the green ogre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story, Shrek (voice of Mike Meyers) is enjoying the perks of castle life as King Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son-in-law.<\/p>\n

Unhappily, the frog sovereign (kissed out of his human form in Shrek 2) calls the queen (voice of Julie Andrews), daughter Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz) and Shrek to his lily pond bedside before he croaks. <\/p>\n

Because Shrek believes he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not so much a fish out of water as an ogre out of swamp, he lamely protests Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dying suggestion that Shrek take the crown.
\nTrouble is, Shrek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already tried and failed at such royal duties as christening a ship (he knocks a hole in it with the champagne bottle) and knighting (he slips with the sword). And, he looks pretty ridiculous in buckled shoes and powdered wig. <\/p>\n

He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s faced it: He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just an ogre, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an oaf. Harold (voice of John Cleese) reveals there is someone else with blood line credentials for the job: a guy named Arthur. After a solemn period of mourning (with a funeral with frog chorus crooning “Live and Let Die”), Shrek decides he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pass the crown to Arthur. <\/p>\n

Before the ship bearing Shrek to summon Arthur can disappear over the horizon, Fiona shouts out the happy news: she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pregnant. She had been trying to broach the topic of little ogre feet running through their swamp cottage; but it only brought unpleasant visions of crying and pooping to her thick-headed mate. Besides, “right now,” he said, “you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re my family.” <\/p>\n

The voyage induces not seasickness but an elaborate sorcerer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apprentice-style dream of torment by rapidly replicating ogrettes. Desperate to fulfill his mission before he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s engulfed by fatherhood, Shrek strong-arms Artie (voice of Justin Timberlake) into leaving his misfit life at Worcestershire Academy (where Just Say Nay banners festoon the assembly hall). <\/p>\n

All seems well as the ship sails back to Far Far Away, until Donkey (voice of Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (voice of Antonio Banderas) reveal there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more to life as a king than subjects bowing and scraping. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the poisoned food and plagues. <\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to take some magic to convince the young man that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got what it takes to become the leader of the free world. Enter Merlin (voice of Eric Idle), the slightly mad, former Academy magic teacher. <\/p>\n

After some dotty philosophizing Merlin casts a rusty and slightly skewed spell, sending everyone back to the kingdom; where Shrek discovers Prince Charming (voice of Rupert Everett) has been making things pretty much unhappily ever after. Not conditioned for rescue like her princess friends, Fiona orders Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty to get their heads out of the once-upon-a-time sand and help her prevent Charming\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s palace coup plans. <\/p>\n

Taking the stage in a production that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play too well on the road, Shrek and the fairy tale heroes face off with Charming and his fairy tale villains to decide once and for all time who really is the fairest in the land. With no new riffs on fairy tale lore or new characters to take the story in unique directions, a lot of Shrek 3 feels recycled. <\/p>\n

But, directors Chris Miller and Raman Hui deliver better-than-ever animation that provides can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t-take-your-eyes-off-the-screen delights; and Miller, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman and Aaron Warner wave their magic storytelling wands to sprinkle great gags and clever cultural spoofs over all like fairy dust.
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