That holds true whether they’re transforming familiar fairy tale characters (from Cinderella’s beefy stepsisters to a narcoleptic Sleeping Beauty) or putting a contemporary spin on storybook settings. Seaman and Aron Warner seem to have a horror of trying anything new. Alas, writer-director Chris Miller (replacing Andrew Adamson, who’s now working on the “Chronicles of Narnia” series) and screenwriters Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Meanwhile, the jilted Prince Charming (a cranky, comical Rupert Everett), fresh from a less-than-stellar turn as a dinner-theater star, rounds up a host of storybook villains - including the Evil Queen who sent Snow White to the forest, Pinocchio’s wicked master Stromboli and, inevitably, that piratical rascal Captain Hook - to take over the Far Far Away realm that should have been his in the first place.Ĭlever ideas all, if utterly predictable. So he sets off with pals Puss (Banderas) and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) to find a logical replacement: Fiona’s long-lost cousin Artie (voiced by Justin Timberlake), a dimpled would-be prince trying to survive high school hell in the saucy realm of Worcestershire. Shrek, however, has had enough of palace protocol and longs to return to his beloved swamp with his beloved Fiona (Cameron Diaz). And one conveniently presents itself when Far Far Away’s Frog King croaks - but not before suggesting that Shrek (voiced, as usual, by Mike Myers) take over his kingly duties. Fortunately, “Shrek the Third” reboots the fearless feline, enabling him (and his dashing vocal alter ego, Antonio Banderas) to steal the show once more.Īny swashbuckling pussycat worth his Fancy Feast needs a quest, of course. “Shrek the Third” can’t even come up with a new character to rival “Shrek 2’s” breakout star, the swashbuckling Puss in Boots. This latest (and hardly greatest) installment in the fractured fairy tale franchise attempts to solve the problem of what to do for an encore by doing exactly the wrong thing: more of the same.Ĭomforting for the kiddies, to be sure, but not exactly overflowing with the spoofy wit the first delirious chapter delivered. Too bad his latest movie, “Shrek the Third,” is getting flabby around the middle. For an ornery ogre, the big green guy known as Shrek is getting downright cuddly.
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