After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. What’s happened to this ogre’s roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all he’s done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love.
My question is, “Does ‘Forever After’ live up to the bar set by the previous installments?” I think so, this movie contains a lot of moral to be learned and I’m sure you will be inspired of. The challenging part of the story for me is when the story finds Shrek in an “It’s a Wonderful Life”- style alternate reality in which he was never born, and thus has no friends or family, no enduring connections, and even source of happiness.
One of the nicest surprises of ‘Forever After’ is the near perfect marriage it achieves between the animation artistry (I like it so much!). In my experience in watching this movie, I would say that “Shrek Forever After” is big-hearted and peppered with juicy throwaway bits: I liked the way the Gingerbread Man had to turn around one of the Three Blind Mice, who was cheering in the wrong direction, or the line by the ogre cook about the need for a chimichanga stand on the battlefield, because everyone’s going to be hungry after waging war. ‘Shrek Forever After’ isn’t essential, but it’s breezy and likable and doesn’t overstay its welcome.
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