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91So far in this year's cartoon feature sweepstakes, Shrek the Third rules.
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80Computer-generated animated movies with wall-to-wall jokes can be excruciating, but these jokes are the funniest money can buy.
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80Shrek the Third seems at once more energetic and more relaxed, less desperate to prove its cleverness and therefore to some extent smarter.
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80After a buoyantly funny first half-hour, stylish animated comedy takes a breather before ramping it up again for a rambunctious, girrrl-power finale that provides a convenient springboard for further adventures to come.
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75Gets back the mood, the pleasure and even some of the freshness of its first installment.
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75The world of the fanciful fable looks particularly vibrant this time with its signature blend of realism and fantasy. It is a pleasure to watch these fairy tale folk be themselves -- yet again.
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75The journey is not very exciting, but the destinations are inspired.
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75Mostly connects with a fairly tight story -- even if it feels less like a movie and more like a really good episode of a "Shrek" TV series.
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70Brings back the characters you may have loved, as I did, in the earlier movies: My particular faves are Antonio Banderas' poon-hound Puss-in-Boots.
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67Shrek, DreamWorks' big green cash machine, has finally run dry, perhaps not of box office power, but most assuredly of the caustic, fractured fairy tale-isms and the wry, snarky wit that made the first film, and to a lesser degree, the first sequel, so winning.
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67I love the princess squad.
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63A damped-down return to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, lacking the comic energy of the first brilliant film and not measuring up to the second.
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63What does set Shrek the Third apart is the quality of its animation, which reaches a level of expressiveness in the faces that would make even Hollywood's heavily Botoxed live-action stars envious.
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63It's not all bad. There is a funny early sequence where Prince Charming is being jeered for his lousy cabaret act in a village pub and a hilarious death-lily scene with the bullfrog King Harold (John Cleese) trying to squeak out the name of his heir while snapping up one last fly.
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63The big new addition in Shrek the Third is Justin Timberlake as the high school-age future King Arthur, but if Timberlake contributed a song to the soundtrack it would have to be "WhinyBack."
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63Four words say all that needs to be said about Shrek the Third: more of the same.
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60Much of the bite and a good deal of the wit of the first two films are missing here. The rude send-up of beloved fairy tale conventions remains -- somewhat -- but these playful jabs no longer come as pleasing surprises. You expect them. And you expect better.
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60The plot material isn't as strong as in the first two movies--if anything, it feels a bit desperate--but the anti-Disney joke blunderbuss remains in good working order.
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58A fairly underwhelming experience for man or child -- not so much bad as just more of the same, with little of the original's novelty or freshness.
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58The law of diminishing returns is no more apparent than in the movie world. A sequel, with rare exceptions, is worse than the film it follows, and sequels of sequels fare even worse. Such is the case with Shrek the Third.
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50There's no disguising the fact that Shrek the Third 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.
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50I doubt even rabid fans of the first two will consider Shrek the Third a worthy addition to the franchise.
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50Shrek the Third isn't a movie, it's the extension of a brand.
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50The real trouble is that the filmmakers consistently choose gags over character.
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50The only thing majestic about Shrek the Third is the title.
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50Reason to make Shrek the Third: Probable earnings of $400 million worldwide. Reasons not to make Shrek the Third: Played-out characters. Bland villain. Novice directors. Slipshod plotting. No compelling story or emotional depth.
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50Somewhat of an improvement over the last one, though it still never veers off familiar terrain. Essentially, if you've only seen one "Shrek" film, you've seen them all.
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Blinded by avarice and all out of ideas, once again, Hollywood can't tell when enough is way more than enough.
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50Has its moments... But does a kids' movie really need, among other similar touches, a Hooters joke? I, for one, wouldn't want to have to explain it.
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50This latest iteration of DreamWorks's money machine has its ups and downs, its longueurs along with its felicities, plus an abiding preoccupation with poop.
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50The end result of Shrek the Third is that you laugh a lot and you go home grumpy.
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50The big green babysitter is back, but the charm has evaporated.
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40Another summer threequel, another case of slipping standards – not so much in the visuals, which remain predictably impressive, but in the all-important gag rate. To waste both Donkey and Puss is a crime…
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38It's just a spectacularly lazy movie that's content to trod the same well-worn ground as its predecessors.
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25Shrek The Third instead goes for less: fewer jokes, less energy, and toned-down characters.
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"Shrek the Third" is a movie you would expect from a third sequel of a franchise. Yes, its decent.
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10Nice.