“Now I’m a jolly green joke.”įinally, at a birthday party for his triplets, where he is repeatedly asked to “do the roar,” Shrek has had enough.
“I used to be an ogre,” he tells wife Fiona (Cameron Diaz). Most importantly, at least to Shrek, he doesn’t scare anyone anymore. He’s weighed down by his fame and his family life. In “Shrek Forever After,” the big green ogre (voiced again by Mike Myers) is having a midlife crisis. Not even the addition (which is, in many ways, a subtraction) of 3-D can keep the film from looking and feeling faded, with none of the spark and energy of the first two “Shreks.” Or even the third, which was tired and should have given ample warning that time was passing the franchise by. The new “Shrek Forever After” - the fourth about a lovable ogre and his adventures in the land called Far Far Away - shows that this series has gone one movie too far.
There is no happy ending for the “Shrek” franchise. Review: ‘Shrek Forever After,’ an unhappy ending – The Mercury News