REVIEW: Shrek The Third

On behalf of Wifey and myself please allow us to apologize to our faithful fans for including reviews of the G-Rated variety.

Unfortunately, when you have two small children under the age of 3 you tend to use your free time watching movies with them ("Family Movie Night") so we thought it was only right that we include our reviews of those films here as well.

Without further adieu I present to you the Our Movie Date review of Shrek The Third.

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WIFEY'S REVIEW

So, I came to this conclusion: SEQUELS SHOULD NOT BE MADE! The first one was really good, the second one was ok, and the third one was LAME!

Ok, it was cute that they had little Shreks, but that was the last 10 minutes of the movie and before then it was Shrek and Dragon was trying to find the next person or ogre to be the king.

Same storyline as the other two and they have to fight off the bad fairytale people again and prove there strength. They find this really dorky kid and he now has to be the king, but getting back to the castle would be the challenge for the three of them. They have to battle prince charming and his people.

In the meantime, Princess Fiona gets herself into a lot of trouble while trying to help out Shrek, which she shouldn’t be doing because all those jumps and matrix like stunts while in her first trimester and good for her or her baby! We woman who have been there can say that with confidence.

So, to make a long, drawn out description short...they fight the prince charming and the new kid takes over the castle and claims his reign. I have to say it was cute to see all the princesses once again. After all this drama was over, Pricess Fiona finally pops out these really cute little shreklets.

Only 2 out of 5 Ben & Jerry’s for me.


HUBBY'S REVIEW

Obviously, this was just an excuse to squeeze as much money out of a film franchise as possible. I mean, even the trailers for this movie (one we saw dozens of times because it was part of another one of our kids' favorite movies) misrepresented what the story was about.

Wifey and I thought it would be funny to watch Shrek and Fiona play mommy and daddy to these dirty little monsters, but instead the babies weren't part of the story until the very end.

Hmmm...I wonder if Shrek 4 will be the movie that tells the parenting story exclusively? No, couldn't be, could it?

Now that I think of it, the Shrek Christmas special (Shrek The Halls) that debuted this past winter was more entertaining, funny, and original than this entire installment was and it was only 45 minutes long!

Like and old friend, it was good to see the regular characters again although there wasn't really any new material or originality as there was in the first two films.

Sadly, only 1.5 Ben & Jerry's for me for this dying franchise. That's makes the official Our Movie Date rating a whopping 1.75!