Shrek had reservations about becoming a father because ogres typically aren’t good parents. They missed some great opportunities to really hammer their point too. It’s mostly ignored throughout the movie, but when the movie wants to bring its theme to the audience’s attention, it’s too heavy-handed. There’s no clear message they want to convey. “Shrek The Third” has some half-assed attempt at themes of fatherhood or something. The story of the first two Shrek movies had powerful themes of acceptance of who you are. It gave me such tonal whiplash to see King Harold’s funeral playing a James Bond song in the background because the song has the word ‘die’ in it. The song choices were a staple of the first two Shrek movies, but this installment missed the mark entirely. The jokes in this movie were mean-spirited, like the death of King Harold being painfully dragged out, or attempts at making childlike humor, like the scene of Gingy getting lost in the memories of his layered past. Some examples are the Starbucks joke being a commentary on the oversaturation of their locations or how the kingdom of Duloc was a parody of Disney World. The jokes in the first two movies were creative and cleverly injected commentary. What do I mean by that? Isn’t comedy subjective and therefore this criticism holds no weight? Well, what I mean is that the jokes in this movie aren’t crafted the same way the jokes in the first two movies were.
For starters, I thought the jokes weren’t on the same level as the first two. “Shrek The Third” was just as uninteresting and boring as I remembered.
As an adult, I’m all about giving movies I’ve watched as a kid a fair shake. I remembered it being super boring and it was one of the only few movies that I had trouble keeping up with the plot because it was so unengaging. That goes to show how forgettable this movie truly is. I watched this movie in theaters and, before rewatching it, I couldn’t tell you a single detail about it.
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