Movie Review: Shrek Forever After

Shrek Forever After

     Shrek Forever After, Is the last entry into the magical, fairly tale land that is Shrek. In this installment Shrek feels he lost his ogerhood (manhood) and is looking to get it back.

It is kind of a midlife crisis for him. He makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, who is evil and takes advantage of shrek. From their on out the whole story is shrek trying to fix what he did. 

Characters

     Most of the characters are back including Shrek (Mike Myers) Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), puss in boots (Antonio Banderas), and Donkey ( Eddie Murphy). Along with appearances by the king and queen, magic mirror, and the gingerbread man. New characters are a lot more witches, Rumpelstiltskin, a army of ogres, and my favorite the Piede Pipper.

Story

     The story was pretty well written, but unfortunately it was easy to predict. The one liners were priceless. The new attitudes of the original characters allowed for more interesting jokes. The Pied Pipper and what he did was hilarious, I don't want to spoil the movie, but I think he was the best part of the movie.

The Ending

     This was the end chapter in the story of Shek the Ogre. Over the years he has kept us entertained. At my first theater job I was lucky enough to see the first one when it was released. And I feel lucky to be able to see this one. I will miss the Shrek series. The end of the movie unfortunately repeated one of the older songs of the series, and their was not enough dancing like Ive seen in the other shreks. But the story was finished with a happy ending and in a very classy way.

     This is definitely a movie to see. Unfortunately I have to tell you if you want a peaceful viewing of it you should see the latest show at your local theater, or just wait to rent, or buy it when hit comes out on Blue ray, or DVD. I suggest doing it this way, not because it isn't worth a theater visit, but because this will be a huge children's movie, and the theater will be packed with figiting, candy eating, wanting to use the restroom, messy kids.