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The four-quel. �The quadrilogy. �The conclusive chapter in the epic, SHREK saga that has spanned nine years and has garnered billions of dollars for DreamWorks. �If you’re wealthy to build your latest film as the last of the series (we’ll get into why this act was pointless in a bit), you had better have a nice send-off, a conclusion that give some sagacity of finality. �And, if you’re making a SHREK film, whether that film is the first, second, third, or last, you had better have a nice mixture of comedy and episode. �SHREK FOREVER AFTER lands on only one side of this figurative coin, but it lands on that side awfully hard.
When we last left Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers), he and Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz) had ethical had triplets and all was grand in the land. �But, if Hollywood sequels tell us anything, nothing is “happily ever after…” �Those three, little dots after that saying are covet years of typical, family strife and the nearly unbearable tedium that comes with normalcy. �This is something Shrek is pooped of, and years after thinking his life is perfect, he begins having what all ogres at his age have (or, at least I hear), a mid-life crisis.
