Shrek the Third: DVD, HD DVD Review (2007)

Features impressive animation and a few bright spots of humor, but mostly, "Shrek the Third" is dull, unimaginative moviemaking served cold to the masses.

After the death of King Harold (John Cleese), it's revealed to Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and Shrek (Mike Myers) that Shrek is next in line to the throne.

It's a job Shrek doesn't want--he is an ogre, after all--and so off he goes with Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas, a highlight) to find the next in line to the throne, Prince Artie (Justin Timberlake), and also to take his mind off the fact that Fiona is pregnant.

For a villain, the film offers up the weakest imaginable--Prince Charming (Rupert Everett)--whose shaggy blond blowout is the most threatening thing in the movie. It's he who wants to be the king of Far Far Away, and he's enlisted a formidable posse to help him to that end. Trouble is, by the film's midpoint, few will care.

Filled with the easiest sort of laughs--fart and poop jokes--"Shrek the Third" is so disappointingly base, it underscores just how far we've come since Disney’s groundbreaking “Toy Story” hit theaters in 1995.

In this movie, the focus is on creating believable expressions and hair that moves, not laughs that sustain and suspense that builds.

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