Cast: voice of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy
Genre: Animation
Direction: Mike Mitchell
Duration: 1 hour
Shrek Forever After movie review
Midlife crisis, Shrek (Mike Myers)? Yup. Specially when you are forced to rise and shine everyday with the cheery cackle of your brood; when you must burp and feed them and dabble with ogre shit relentlessly; when you must parrot `Ever After' each time wife Fiona (Cameron Diaz) mumbles `Happily' on the dinner table; when you can't snooze in your favourite chair because high-spirited friends, Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss (Antonio Banderas) want to spent some quality buddy time with you. And more importantly, when you are denied that one single pleasure of yours due to pressing house work: a relaxed mud bath, while the Carpenters blare their popular `Top of the World' number.
So what does our friendly neighbourhood ogre do to get back his roar and stop being a jolly green joke? He signs a contract with the wicked character from the Brothers Grimm, Rumplestiltskin, turns his back to his friends and family, yells on wife Fiona and returns to a time when he wasn't born. This being a time when Donkey was a slave to the witches, Puss was an overweight domestic cat and Fiona was leading a band of rebel ogres to free Far, Far Away land from the misrule of Rumplestiltskin. But it doesn't take long before the green ogre realises he has ended up with a raw deal. Since he hasn't actually been born, the day will end with his end too and he will never be able to return to his family unless he manages to snatch one true kiss with Fiona. Now that ain't an easy task because Fiona is in militant feminist form, too involved in insurgency to focus on romance. HowAll good things must end, right? Movie franchises are no different, really, and despite the fact that series eventually run their course and it’s better if they’re put out to pasture the studio can always look forward to, assuming things have been successful, enough years of continued income from licensed goods until it’s no longer awkward to discuss a reboot with fresh actors and a fresh story.
After three successful movies beginning back in 2001, Shrek Forever After is being heralded as the last in the popular Shrek series. In the previous three films we’ve followed Shrek from a simple – and feared – ogre to happily married ogre to father of his own little baby ogres, all with his friends such as Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) beside him as well as his wife Fionna (Cameron Diaz). The latest movie finds Shrek growing uncomfortable in his role as respected father and husband and so winds up making a wish to Rumplestilzkin that he could just go back to being a regular ogre. He finds himself in a world where he’d never been born and where he must undue whatever caused this situation if he hopes to live happily ever after. does he convince her about the happily-ever-after that lies ahead....
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