Jimmy P's House of Movies

What has happened to the Shrek franchise? The first two Shrek movies were great entertainment. Shrek the Third was not as good as the first two, but it had it's charms. You could tell that the filmmakers were running out of ideas with Shrek the Third. Now, we know for a fact that the filmmakers have no fresh ideas with this movie.

This time Shrek finds himself bored with his family life. He wants to go back to being a regular ogre. He runs into Rumpelstiltskin, who makes him an offer he can't refuse. Shrek can be a regular ogre for one day in exchange for a day from his life. Shrek sees this as a fair deal and signs the contract.

Of course, Rumpelstiltskin has devious plans in store for Shrek. Shrek finds out that the day that was taken from him was the day he was born, thus making him non-existent. Shrek must make friends with all the people from his normal life in order to return there.

My main complaint with the movie, other than it being incredibly unfunny, is that every movie revolves around Shrek's hatred of his life. I understand the movies are called Shrek, but every movie has him complaining about how his life is and then, by the end, realizing that his life is good. Could the filmmakers come up with with something different? It seems they can not.

The filmmakers have finally ran this series into the ground with Shrek Forever After. The story is terrible, the jokes painfully unfunny, and the whole sense of fun has been sucked away. What we are left with is a movie that is on life support. It is time someone pulled the plug and put everyone out of their misery.