Movie review – Shrek Forever After (2010)
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If nothing else, Shrek Forever After gets that nasty taste of Shrek the Third out of our mouths. It makes a more earnest attempt to entertain us, its intentions are slightly less mercenary, and if this is indeed the finale to the Shrek franchise, we can at least leave it on something approaching good terms. At times, it captures pieces of that old iconoclastic magic and the fractured fairy tale that once held us all in thrall shows signs of fluttering back to life.
Unfortunately, the franchise just doesn't have enough gas in the tank to finish things off with a bang. Its ideas eventually run out, leaving a second half that just marks time while coasting on goodwill that it can't sustain for longer than a joke or two. It means well, it tries hard, but it's spinning stew out of an oyster and the results are just too thin and watery to hold up.
The trouble starts with the basic premise, a gussied-up rehash of It's A Wonderful Life in which Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) finds himself in a world where he never existed. Frustrated by life as a family man, he signs a deal with the devious Rumpelstiltskin (voiced by Walt Dohrn) for just one day of his old life as a terrifying ogre. It's a great day, but in order to get it, he has to give up a day of his own specifically the day he was born. Now, the land of Far, Far Away is overrun by witches, Rumpelstiltskin is in charge and all of Shrek's friends live lives of drudgery and horror. In order to undo it, he has to woo his love Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz) all over again, and since she's running the local band of Plucky Rebels, she really doesn't have the time.
Shrek Forever After rarely bothers with getting anyone up to speed, trusting that we all know the characters well enough to jump right in. It makes sense, but the tactic still gives the film a shopworn sit-com feeling. ("What wacky adventures are Shrek and the gang going to get into now?") It grows steadily worse as the narrative goes through its paces, culminating in a depressing realization that this Shrek really only has about half a movie worth of inspiration at best.
Director Mike Mitchell attempts to make up for it largely on the strength of individual jokes. Some of them work quite well, particularly early on before the whole alternate history thing takes over. ("Do the roar" is rapidly becoming a catch phrase in my household.) Shrek's buddy Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy) delivers the biggest laughs, but Puss N' Boots (voiced by Antonio Banderas) grabs a few decent sight gags, and Mitchell milks the alternative version of various fairy tale figures as well as one might expect. The film's strongest asset is actually its villain, whom Dohrn delivers with a smarmy--and very funny--sense of entitlement. Rumpel lost out on a big payday when Shrek saved Fiona in the first film, and he's been plotting a bloody, horrible revenge ever since. Shrek Forever After wisely keeps new characters to a minimum (it's getting crowded in there) and the chief bad guy provides the bulk of its originality and imagination.
Sadly, it isn't enough. While the film avoids utter disaster, and Shrek's young fans won't mind the comparatively weak material, it's still a far cry from the classic initial entries in the series. The storyline stems from Shrek's fears about how much he's changed, and in that sense, art really does reflect life. He's not the same ogre he was; the barbed satire and fierce iconoclasm he once evinced are nowhere to be seen. All well and good if they can find something to replace them with, but the fourth--and hopefully final--entry ultimately has nothing but recycled goodwill to sustain it. We've gone about as far as we can go with the big green galoot. Time to let him retire for good.
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