(Tellingly, this is the first in the series to be presented in widescreen.) No doubt looking to exploit the sensory stimulation offered by 3D, the filmmakers have ramped up the action, most notably in a high-flying broom chase featuring Shrek and Donkey and the witches and an elaborate climactic battle sequence. Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke’s screenplay creates some fun with the personality and visual changes the familiar characters have undergone, but as with so many sequels to sequels, “Shrek Forever After” has lost much of the simple charm, humor and heart that marked its predecessors. Suddenly, he finds himself in an alternate Far Far Away in which he was never born: Rumpel is king, Fiona is the fierce warrior leader of a band of rebel ogres, Donkey is in the employ of a band of cackling witches, and Puss, well, Puss has really let himself go - he’s now a pampered housecat with a serious eating disorder.ĭesperate to reclaim his former life, Shrek attempts to woo back Fiona and extract a kiss from his “one true love” that will undo the effects of the spell. You don't have to be Goldilocks to think that this time they've cooked their Golden Goose.In an effort to shake things up, he enters into an unfortunate pact with the devil or, more precisely, new villain Rumpelstiltskin (borrowed for the occasion from the Brothers Grimm and voiced by story editor Walt Dohrn). Though the "It's a Wonderful Life" plot gives the whole arc of the Shrek-Fiona story a heartfelt twist, "Forever After" still goes down like warmed-over porridge.
The laughs are few and far between _ Puss has lost his boots, but gained a LOT of weight, and witches in a fairytale trailer park launch into "Dueling Banjos." Rumpelstiltskin hires a certain flute-playing hit man from Hamelin to pipe the ogres to their doom.īut Dreamworks let artist, screenwriter and sometime director Walt Dohrn do the generic Rumpelstiltskin voice, handing over the third most-important character in a billion dollar franchise to a voice with no menace or personality. Lots of characters sing in this one _ Banderas (the funniest thing about the movie) does a little Bob Marley, Murphy's Donkey covers Madonna.
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