This franchise went progressively downhill after the second movie. It lost everything that made it edgy and therefore funny in the interest of appealing to a broader audience.Now happily married, Shrek (Mike Meyers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) try their hand at ruling the kingdom of Far Far Away when Fiona's father (John Cleese) is ill. Shrek makes a dog's dinner out of the whole affair and decides that he can't handle the pressure of being king. On his deathbed, Fiona's father mentions that there is another heir named Arthur (Justin Timberlake) away at boarding school. Shrek, Donkey (Eddie Murphy), and Puss (Antonio Banderas) immediately set off to find him and convince him to take the crown. While they are gone, Charming (Rupert Everett) leads all the storybook villains in a coup to find the happy ending he has been denied.
The theme of this film is the fear of impending fatherhood, to which I cannot personally relate. I understand that it is a thing and there is a corresponding fear in women but as I hate children and gratefully opted out of the process, my sympathy is limited. My sympathy for a cartoon ogre shepherding an annoying teen on a road trip is practically nonexistent.
You could do worse but you could also do much better than this.
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