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#712 - Shrek the Third
Chris Miller, 2007
An ogre looking to avoid the responsibility of becoming king goes on a quest to find a separate heir to the throne.
Oh, the things I'll watch when it's already after 10 p.m. and I decide to fill out my movie-a-day stipulation by picking something that I can have running in the background. That's about the kind of attention that Shrek the Third deserves - assuming it deserves any at all. After having married a princess and earned her initially disapproving parents' blessing, the eponymous ogre (Mike Myers) soon finds himself in line for the throne after the ailing king (John Cleese) passes away. Not willing to deal with the responsibility of becoming king, Shrek decides to look for the only other possible heir to the throne, who is in fact a gawky teenager named Arthur (Justin Timberlake). Meanwhile, the vain Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) from the previous film seeks to reclaim his former glory by uniting a rogues' gallery of classic fairytale villains in hopes of launching his own rebellion and taking the kingdom for himself.
I'll keep this short, but if you're reading this and seriously entertaining thoughts of watching Shrek the Third then you're already more than likely to be familiar with the sort of superficially subversive gross-out antics displayed by the grumpy green giant and his companions in the previous two Shrek films. If you have somehow missed those other two, then there's really very little point in watching this one. Even if you've enjoyed the last two (and, to be fair, I have to an extent, though I'd be hard-pressed to say I seriously like them) this one yields very little in the way of worthwhile returns even by the established standards. You may get the odd chuckle out of its shamelessly immature humour on display but more often than not the simplistic parody on display just doesn't manage to amuse on any level - that, and the animation is pretty average.
Chris Miller, 2007
An ogre looking to avoid the responsibility of becoming king goes on a quest to find a separate heir to the throne.
Oh, the things I'll watch when it's already after 10 p.m. and I decide to fill out my movie-a-day stipulation by picking something that I can have running in the background. That's about the kind of attention that Shrek the Third deserves - assuming it deserves any at all. After having married a princess and earned her initially disapproving parents' blessing, the eponymous ogre (Mike Myers) soon finds himself in line for the throne after the ailing king (John Cleese) passes away. Not willing to deal with the responsibility of becoming king, Shrek decides to look for the only other possible heir to the throne, who is in fact a gawky teenager named Arthur (Justin Timberlake). Meanwhile, the vain Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) from the previous film seeks to reclaim his former glory by uniting a rogues' gallery of classic fairytale villains in hopes of launching his own rebellion and taking the kingdom for himself.
I'll keep this short, but if you're reading this and seriously entertaining thoughts of watching Shrek the Third then you're already more than likely to be familiar with the sort of superficially subversive gross-out antics displayed by the grumpy green giant and his companions in the previous two Shrek films. If you have somehow missed those other two, then there's really very little point in watching this one. Even if you've enjoyed the last two (and, to be fair, I have to an extent, though I'd be hard-pressed to say I seriously like them) this one yields very little in the way of worthwhile returns even by the established standards. You may get the odd chuckle out of its shamelessly immature humour on display but more often than not the simplistic parody on display just doesn't manage to amuse on any level - that, and the animation is pretty average.