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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:4
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Shrek the Third has pop culture potshots galore, but at the expense of the heart, charm, and wit that made the first two Shreks classics.
Theatrical Release:29-06-2007
Synopsis: In the third installment of the wildly popular SHREK series of computer-animated movies, everyone's favorite hygienically challenged green ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) faces both parental and royal... [More]
Starring: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas
Director: Raman Hui, Chris Miller
In the end, Shrek the Third, like so many Hollywood animation movies today, neither trusts itself nor cares to create any new magic. If it were a child in a classroom, it would be the back-row smart arse, rather than the poetic dreamer.
Top CriticShrek the Third isn't awful, but it's bland, with a barrel-scraping averageness.
Top CriticChildren may devour the slapstick, but the once-mighty Shrek has somehow lost all his charm and spiky humour.
Top Critic"Ogre and out" say the critics, but the Shrek series still has laughs and legs.
Top CriticA shame it lacks the smart sassiness of its predecessors. Time to call time, we think.
Top CriticAnother summer threequel, another case of slipping standards – not so much in the visuals, which remain predictably impressive, but in the all-important gag rate. To waste both Donkey and Puss is a crime…
Top CriticGreat animation and good jokes.
Top CriticShrek the Third seems at once more energetic and more relaxed [than its predecessors], less desperate to prove its cleverness and therefore to some extent smarter.
Top CriticShrek the Third has its moments. But does a kids' movie really need, among other similar touches, a Hooters joke? I, for one, wouldn't want to have to explain it.
Top CriticIt makes the mistake of thinking slapstick action is funny for its own sake. True, characters zooming and bouncing around are easy to write because no creative invention is required to set them in motion. But so what?
Top CriticWhile still mirthful and eccentric enough to amuse his hordes of admirers, the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age in Shrek the Third.
Top CriticMuch of the bite and a good deal of the wit of the first two films are missing here.
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