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Shrek Forever After

This article contains indepth information about Shrek Forever After. The final installment in the Shrek series.

"Shrek Forever After" is a 2010 animated fantasy-family film, and the final film in the Shrek series. It was released in theaters on May 21, 2010 in the United States, Canada, India, on May 20 in Russia and on May 28 in Vietnam. It is scheduled to be released on July 2, 2010 in the United Kingdom. It was released in 3-D and IMAX 3-D theaters. The plot was announced February 23, 2009.

Like the first three Shrek films, the movie is based on fairy tale themes. The trailer was attached with Avatar. The second trailer was released online on March 12, 2010 and then attached with 3D showings of "Alice in Wonderland"and then with "How to Train Your Dragon". The third and final trailer was attached to "Iron Man 2".

Plot

Just before Princess Fiona’s rescue by Shrek in the first film, King Harold and Queen Lillian are revealed to have come to the magic deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin for help with breaking Fiona’s curse. King Harold is about to sign a contract to break the curse in exchange for Rumpelstiltskin becoming king of Far Far Away, but word comes that Fiona has been rescued, causing King Harold to decline the offer. A disgruntled Rumpelstiltskin in the present day wishes that Shrek was never born, vowing vengeance.

Meanwhile, Shrek has grown tired of his life being a local celebrity and his overwhelming family and friends, as well as the fact he feels he isn’t a “real ogre” anymore because he then tries to face fatherhood. When they arrive at Far, Far Away for the ogre babies' first birthday, a mob of fans ask Shrek to autograph pitch forks and torches, a boy (who resembles Hansel in Hansel and Gretel) asks him to do his roar, and the three pigs eat the birthday cake. All this makes Shrek roar in frustration and everyone applauds. He then smashes a new cake and angrily leaves the room. Outside, Fiona talks to Shrek about his anger and his wish to be a real ogre again. Rumpelstiltskin overhears this. Fiona tells Shrek he has everything, but doesn't see it, and she heads back inside the birthday. Shrek leaves and goes on a walk ranting about how Fiona isn't in charge and how she doesn't deserve an apology. In the middle of his rant he sees Rumpelstiltskin faking to be hurt. After "rescuing" him, Rumpelstiltskin insists he joins him for a ride in his carriage.

Rumpelstiltskin offers him a day where none of his adventures had ever happened, a day to feel like a real ogre again, in exchange for a day from Shrek’s childhood. Shrek agrees and signs the contract. Shrek enjoys his day being feared by villagers, before he sees Wanted signs of him and Fiona... until he sees his home in the swamp is nothing but a big tree stump. He is captured by a group of witches and was knocked unconscious after one witch throws a pumpkin gas on him. Shrek wakes up, hears Donkey's voice singing and finds himself inside a cage, Donkey is seen carrying the cage. Shrek asks Donkey where they're going, but Donkey doesn't understand Shrek and doesn't know him. He is brought into Rumpelstiltskin, who is king of far far away. Rumpelstiltskin tells Shrek that Queen Lilian and King Harold sign the contract so "all of their problems disappear", but both of them disappear. Rumpelstiltskin tells Shrek that he will disappear when 24 hours come out and tells Shrek doesn't met Fiona and his babies don't exist. Shrek steals a broom and was chased by the witches and grabs Donkey and escape. They crash-land in the forest in which Donkey is afraid of Shrek, flees. Donkey finds Shrek sad in the forest, while Shrek is holding his babies' toy. Both of them become best friends.

Donkey is also intelligent and is able to deduce by folding the contract paper that the exit clause of Rumpelstiltskin’s contract is true love’s first kiss before the 24 hours run out. Not finding Fiona in the tower, the two stumble upon a secret community of warrior ogres led by Fiona (all the ogres are taller than Shrek). Fiona has never met Shrek, can't stand him and dismisses his attempts to reconcile with her. Shrek also finds Puss in Boots, now Fiona’s pet who retired from swordsmanship and is now fat and lazy. Puss, although he doesn't know Shrek, befriends him and realizes that there was some romantic interest between Shrek and Fiona.

Rumpelstiltskin is to lead the nightly ogre hunt throughout the kingdom, and Fiona plans to defeat him along the route. However, Rumpelstiltskin has hired the Pied Piper, who with a magical flute entrances the army of ogres to dance themselves all the way to the castle (to the song "Shake Your Groove Thing".) Puss and Donkey are able to save Fiona and Shrek. Shrek has by this point all but won Fiona’s heart, but since Fiona doesn’t truly love him, their kiss doesn’t fix the spell. Fiona leaves to save the ogres and the kingdom without Shrek, Puss, or Donkey.

Rumpelstiltskin announces to the kingdom that whoever brings him Shrek will get whatever they want with no strings attached. Shrek turns himself in and in return Rumpelstiltskin frees the ogre army. Shrek is imprisoned along with Fiona, since Fiona is a princess by day, she could not go free, but is deeply moved by Shrek's self-sacrifice. The two are to be fed to Dragon, Donkey’s wife in the regular timeline, but Puss, Donkey, and the ogres arrive and battle Rumpelstiltskin’s forces.

As Shrek and Fiona escape and the 24 hours are almost going to pass, Fiona kisses Shrek and he disappears. Fiona remains as an ogre as the sun rises, and she realizes that was true love's kiss. The witches, the ogres, Donkey, Puss and Fiona disappear and the contract is destroyed, sending Rumpelstiltskin to his defeat and the town is back to normal when Shrek is roaring in frustration in his kids' birthday. Shrek embraces Fiona, his family, and friends again, and remarks that Fiona had in fact saved him when the two met. After which, we see Shrek's hand close up the book and put it with the books of the other three films, the next book titled "Puss In Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer".

During the end credits, they and all their family and friends including the ogre army, celebrate the ogre babies’ first birthday in a larger party which includes Rumpelstiltskin, now held prisoner and his pet goose exploded due to Fiona's singing. A curtain call follows in the credits, along with a montage of clips from the past three films: Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek the Third.

Cast

Main

Mike Myers as Shrek
Eddie Murphy as Donkey
Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona
Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots
Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstiltskin
Jon Hamm as Brogan the Ogre
Craig Robinson as Cookie the Ogre
Jane Lynch as Gretched the Ogre

Supporting

Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread Man
Aron Warner as Big Bad Wolf
Christopher Knights as Three Blind Mice
Cody Cameron as Pinocchio, Three Little Pigs

Minor

Julie Andrews as Queen Lillian
John Cleese as King Harold
Chris Miller as Magic Mirror, Mr. Geppetto
Kristen Schaal as Pumpkin Witch, Palace Witch
Mary Kay Place as Guard Witch
Meredith Vieira as Broomsy Witch
Kathy Griffin as Dancing Witch, Wagon Witch #1
Lake Bell as Patrol Witch, Wagon Witch #2
Larry King as Doris the Ugly Stepsister
Regis Philbin as Mabel the Ugly Stepsister
Ryan Seacrest as Butter Pants' father
Mike Mitchell as Butter Pants

Production

Tim Sullivan wrote the original story, Shrek Goes Fourth, but Darren Lemke and Josh Klausner made the rewrites, and Mike Mitchell directed the new installment. Also, all the principal cast members reprised their roles. On November 25, 2009, DreamWorks Animation announced that Shrek 5 has been scrapped and that Shrek Forever After is The Final Chapter.

Reception

Critical reception

Although Shrek Forever After has received mixed reviews, although it was better received than its predecessor, Shrek the Third. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 52% of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 128 reviews (currently citing an 11 percentile increase from the film's predecessor Shrek the Third which gained 41%), with an average score of 5.8/10. Its consensus states "While not without its moments, Shrek Forever After too often feels like a rote rehashing of the franchise's earlier entries." Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 40% based on 30 reviews. The film was received well in the user section of the site, with a "Fresh' rating of 70%. Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 58 based on 34 reviews.

Pete Hammond of Boxoffice gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5 writing "Hilarious and heartfelt from start to finish, this is the best Shrek of them all, and that's no fairy tale. Borrowing liberally from Frank Capra's, "It's a Wonderful Life", this edition blends big laughs and emotion to explore what Far Far Away might have been like if Shrek never existed." James Berardinelli of Reelviews awarded the film 3/4 stars stating "Even though Shrek Forever After is obligatory and unnecessary, it's better than Shrek 3 and it's likely that most who attend as a way of saying goodbye to the Jolly Green Ogre will not find themselves wishing they had sought out a more profitable way of spending 90-odd minutes." Writing her critique for Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum graded the film a B- claiming "Everyone involved fulfills his or her job requirements adequately. But, the magic is gone, and Shrek Forever After is no longer an ogre phenomenon to reckon with." Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers wrote "This is a fun ride. What’s missing is the excitement of new interpretation." Mary Pols, film critic for Time, concluded her review with "Can an ogre jump a shark? I think so." Giving the film 1 star out of 4, Kyle Smith of New York Post wrote that "After the frantic spurt of fairy-tale allusions and jokes in the first three Shreks, this one inches along with a few mostly pointless action scenes and the occasional mild pun."

Box office

Having it as the widest release for an animated film playing in 4,377 theaters on May 21, 2010, on opening day in the US, the film took #1, grossing an estimated $26,750,000. This was far less auspicious than the opening days of the last two Shrek films. The film then opened in three days with $70,838,207, lower than the two previous films, Shrek 2, which opened with $108 million back in 2004 and Shrek the Third, which opened with $121 million back in 2007. However, it's far bigger than the original Shrek, which opened with $42 million back in 2001. Anne Globe, head of worldwide marketing for DreamWorks Animation, said they were happy with the movie's opening since it debuted at #1 and also had the fourth best opening for an animated movie behind Shrek the Third, Shrek 2, and "The Simpsons Movie". In its second weekend, Shrek Forever After dropped 38.9%, the second smallest second weekend drop for the franchise (behind the original Shrek which gained 0.3%) and was #1 for two weeks in a row with approximately $43,311,063, ahead of the two highly-anticipated films, "Sex and the City 2" and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time". The film then grossed $16,749,371 on Memorial Day bringing its four-day weekend total to $57,060,434. In its third weekend Shrek Forever After dropped only 41.2% and was #1 for the three weeks in a row with $25,486,465, beating out the new releases "Get Him to the Greek" and Killers.

As of June 6, 2010 Shrek Forever After has earned $183,229,453 at the domestic box office, and an additional $68,400,000 overseas giving the film a worldwide gross of $251,629,453.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Shrek Forever After" and is licensed under CC-BY-SA. This article has been modified.

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