http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.badmouth.net/shrek-the-third-2007/ http://www.badmouth.net/shrek-the-third-2007/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 01:34:15 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/shrek-the-third-2007/ [rating:2.5] Director: Chris Miller Starring: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas It feels odd to give Shrek the Third a half a star less than Spider Man 3, when Spidey was a jumbled mess and the the plot of this latest Shrek displays workmanlike competency. I credit it to my opinion of the Sam Raimi opus having dropped a peg or two as time has passed and to the fact that — in Shrek’s case — hitting all the beats does not a successful sequel make. Tediously competent, Shrek the Third is also strangely flat. While Eddie Murphy’s and Antonio Banderas’ voices are unmistakable, the lackluster performances of Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz as the titular ogres made me wonder if they’d priced themselves out of the third episode and been replaced by understudies. This movie felt tired and it dragged badly in several spots. I seem to remember (perhaps wrongly) Myers bringing so much more comic fire to the original. Related posts:

1. ultimate saturday night live cast
2. Batman Begins
3. Happily N’Ever After (2007)

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1. Black Snake Moan (2007)
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3. Shrek the Third

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