Shrek Forever After
The two greatest things about Lufthansa is that they have a very nice selection of well-made foods, and that you can choose your movie yourself. Sadly enough, there weren’t that many good films, but I was lucky to be able to pick out three. In the end, I wish I had seen either “Young Victoria” or this Jackie Chan film instead of “Shrek Forever After” (which ran on another flight as well), but how was I supposed to know?
I have seen the first two Shrek movies, and barely remember them at this point. I remember that he saved the princess by turning her into an ogre and in the second film it was the kingdom to be saved (or something?). I never saw the third film and heard that it was pretty bad. According to rumors, “Shrek Forever After” was another vain effort in milking the franchise, but less bad than Shrek 3. If that is the case, I think I might never complete the series, because “Shrek Forever After” was more an adventure action film rather than a comedy. It had an okayish story, a rather funny villain and it’s nice to see Shrek trying to win over Fiona again.
But that was pretty much it, there just weren’t many good jokes or interesting shorelines. I remember that Shrek used to shine as the funniest, most mature and most enjoyable of the computer animated films (now it has easily been topped by “Wall-E” and “Up” in my opinion). In comparison to Shrek’s old glory this sequel gives off a rather bland feeling. There also is not enough donkey nor the cat! I also hated how they put it the cat’s cute face surely because viewers expect it. Plus none of his character was further developed, ugh. As a Shrek fan, one should probably see all the films, and this one was actually fun to watch, but the rule “sequels are generally bad sequels” definitely applies here.