Friday, October 12, 2007

Shrek The Third

Good.
The third movie in the Shrek series. Its flow is funny, its story is one of a kind and its animation is nice. The movie is great.
  • King Arthur, Lancelot and Merlin were included to the characters. I guess they weren't able to find anyone else fit for the role of king. In addition, they did not debunk the idea of becoming royalty by consanguinity alone. I thought they were going there.
  • The ogre babies and the donkey-dragon babies are very cute.
  • There is one product advertisement.
  • The touch of feminism, which has been common with all the other Shrek movies, is still present.
  • Eddie Murphy sings again.
  • The scene where Pinocchio was trying his best to tell the truth by using double negations and other logical statements so that he doesn't give information to the antagonists is one of the funniest scenes in the movie.
  • Another funny scene is the Ginger Bread Man's flashback of his life when he thought that he was going to get killed.
More than the 3D animation and the comedy are ideas that are nice to ponder upon like the ogre protagonist or the ass-kicking princess.

Another interesting idea is that fairy tales are often one-sided in that most of the detail is given to the to-be-happy protagonist. The only thing that needs to be known about the evil antagonists is that they are evil, nothing more than that. As Charming said in his pursuit of his happily ever after, "Once upon a time, someone decided that we we're the losers. There are two sides to every story, and our side has not been told."
Unfortunately, they always end Charming's conflict with Shrek with the Win-Lose approach.