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Shrek the Third

Shrek the Third (Shrek 3)

2007

Chris Miller, Raman Hui

Animation, Voice: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz ...

5.9

37,091

Animation. Comedy. Fantasy. Adventure When his new father-in-law, King Harold (John Cleese) falls ill, Shrek (Mike Myers) is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) to install the rebellious Artie (Justin Timberlake) as the new king. Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fends off a coup d'etat by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is as visually enchanting as the first two in the series (...) but the movie settles for action that it trusts is funny, instead of aiming for comedy itself (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Shrek the Third' seems at once more energetic and more relaxed, less desperate to prove its cleverness and therefore to some extent smarter."	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"The charm has evaporated. Cinephiles will enjoy some of the in-jokes (...) But then, if you're a cinephile, why would you bother with this?"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] has come down with a bad case of sequelitis. You know the symptoms: Lots of razzle-dazzle to distract from the hole at the center of the story. You know, the place where fresh ideas should be.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Shrek the Third' gets back the mood, the pleasure and even some of the freshness of its first installment."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"A busier, less satisfying story that leaves the titular ogre on the edges of his own sequel."	NEG
United States	Tom Charity CNN	"'Shrek the Third' is beginning to smell a little ripe, but that's just how we like him."	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"Another summer threequel, another case of slipping standards - not in the visuals, which remain predictably impressive, but in the all-important gag rate (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There are no new ideas, no very funny new characters, but one frankly unfunny new character: a retired Merlin-wizard figure (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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