Apparently "The Final Chapter" was one of the alternate names. But I just heard that there's a fifth one in the works so I imagine DreamWorks will start scrubbing that off any re-releases. I don't know why they're making a fifth one. I thought Mike Meyers was enjoying his retirement making documentaries.Shrek (Mike Meyers) is happily married to Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and raising triplets. The comfortable sag of fatherhood and middle age is starting to get to him, however, so when a sympathetic Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) offers him a deal to give up one day of his past in exchange for one day with everyone fearing his ogre might again, he takes it. Like with all deals in fairy tales, there's a catch: the day Rumpel takes is the day Shrek was born, casting him into a future where he never saves Fiona from the tower, never meets Donkey (Eddie Murphy) or Puss (Antonio Banderas), and never restores Far Far Away to its rightful heir. Instead, Rumpel is ruling the country with an army of witches, and Fiona is the leader of the ogre resistance. Unless Shrek can win her over once more and get True Love's Kiss before sunrise, he will disappear and this reality will be permanent.
If this had been made instead of Shrek the Third, I think it would have done better. That movie really kind of fucks up the whole franchise. Not that Forever After is great on its own. It's pretty middling. There's also a huge drop in continuity since they introduced the character of Rumpelstiltskin in the third movie and he looked completely different. The villain here is more like if Lord Farquaad fucked a Troll doll.
Money is a hugely powerful motivator but DreamWorks is going to have to expend a Herculean effort to pull this franchise out of its nosedive if they expect any kind of return.
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