So no one should expect a serious drop in the eagerness of families around the world to embrace a new Shrek movie. The first two films yielded $1.4 billion in boxoffice receipts and sold more than 130 million DVDs - a green monster indeed. And you expect better.ĭreamWorks Animation has clearly gone to the well one time too many in “Shrek the Third.” Not that you can blame the company. The rude send-up of beloved fairy tale conventions remains - somewhat - but these playful jabs no longer come as pleasing surprises. ![]() Much of the bite and a good deal of the wit of the first two films are missing here. ![]() That’s bad enough, but he is no longer very funny either. Donkey (Eddie Murphy) is less the hilariously annoying motormouth companion to Shrek and more a helpful, even empathetic pal. Nor is he the only character to have changed for the worse. Oh, he’s still large and green (and brilliantly voiced by Mike Myers) in his third movie outing, “Shrek the Third.” But his manners and disposition have improved to the point he is threatened by middle-class respectability. You know, that ornery, mammoth, flatulent, trumpet-eared, icky-green-colored ogre. ![]() This review was written for the theatrical release of “Shrek the Third.”
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