The best of the Part IIIs

I watched Shrek The Third last evening and thoroughly enjoyed it.

After the disasters that were Spiderman 3 (yeck) and Pirates III (double yeck...), Shrek the Third was a wonderful change. Sure all the usual suspects were there and the story was an extension of the last part, it was a movie that made you go "Aww" a few times and laugh a lot more often. I may not have been laughing my guts out, but at least I was not waiting for the movie to finish, something that I was doing all the time while watching both the Spiderman and Pirates installments.

The plot nicely starts where Shrek 2 left off. Shrek and Fiona are still in Far Far Away. The twist starts with the king, now a frog, dies (quite a funny sequence considering that the character is going to die). And that is the beginning of yet another quest for Shrek, with Donkey and Puss by his side.

Some really nice messages in the movie, something that my daughter could take back home. She is getting to an age where she has started noticing appearances and started to react to her own appearance. The message in the movie was heartwarming to say the least, and delivered in a nice and funny way. Sure it was not as funny as Shrek 2, but it was definately worth the ticket money.

PDI/Dreamworks has done it yet again. And they deserve all the success that goes with it. However, I am not sure there will be another Shrek installment. The story has run it's course and I don't think there is anything left in it to have another one.

Of course, that was true for Spiderman and Pirates two installments ago.