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Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona brings both the necessary traditional fairytale princess sensibilities as well as the unexpected, girlÁs rock traits with aplomb. Shrek : Rated PG for Mild Language and Some Crude Humor; Shrek 2 : Rated PG for some Crude Humor, a Brief Substance Reference, and Some Suggestive Content; Shrek the Third: Rated PG for Some Crude Humor, Suggestive Content, and Swashbuckling Action; Shrek Forever After : Rated PG for Mild Action, Some Rude Humor and Brief Language Audio : English 1 DTS HD Master Audio, French, Spanish, and Portuguese 1 Dolby Digital Subtitles : English, English SDH, French, Spanish, and Portuguese ÁLook, Im not the one with the problem, okay? Its the world that seems to have a problem with ME! People take one look at me and go Aargh! Help! Run! A big stupid ugly ogre! They judge me before they even know me thats why Im better off Á In the quiet of a swamp, a mean, green ogre lives a perfect life. His days are filled with mud baths, vermin lunches, and bug-juice toothpaste and his nights are filled with terrorizing hapless villagers, and reveling in the Ogre warning signs posted throughout the forest. He enjoys his lifeÁs to kill a king maps pleasures behind the comfort of his ÁKeep OutÁ signs. One day, his version of an idyllic life is disrupted when the narcissistic Lord Farquaad, a brash and unlikable fella with a Napoleon complex, begins relocating characters from fairytales to ShrekÁs swamp. To restore his life back to normal, the grumpy green ogre must undertake a quest on behalf of Lord Farquaad to rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona from the tallest tower, guarded by a vicious dragon, and return her to marry the short Lord. áShrek is an unlikely hero Á light-years away from being the typical Prince Charming with his grizzly outlook and gassy disposition, and so saving the princess is not part of the expected storybook romance. Shrek is accompanied by a talking donkey, a song-prone million-words-a-minute pain in ShrekÁs backside. When DreamWorksÁs animation released the original Shrek in 2001, it was like a breath of fresh air and remains the best of the series. Original, vibrant, energetic, and spunky in equal measure, it successfully turned traditional storybook conventions on their head with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. Sprightly sequences set in the land far, far away, but set to contemporary and upbeat songs that seemed to cleverly splice the storybook world with our modern sensibilities. Though some of the songs may make your eyes roll today from their overexposure, the entire exercise was pulled off nicely by a playful storyline, solid animation, and a terrific voice cast led by Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, and Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona. Supporting the main cast is the spot-on John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad, Cody Cameron as Pinocchio, and Conrad Vernon as the Gingerbread man who, it must be said, steals every scene in which he appears Á not my gum-drop buttons! Á. In the second chapter of the Shrek storybook, Fiona and Shrek are now married and have been invited to visit with FionaÁs parents the ones who locked her away in the tower in the Kingdom of Far, Far Away. Shrek is resistant after all, visiting the in-laws for the first time can be daunting, and their first meeting does not go well. The King conspires with the Fairy Godmother, whose son Prince Charming incidentally arrived to rescue Fiona from the tower too late Shrek had beaten him to it, to get rid of Shrek so that Prince Charming can take his place and claim heir to the throne of the Kingdom. Modeling Far, Far Away after Beverly Hills, California was a stroke of genius, and for those that either live there, or have visited, their loving mockery of the vibe and lifestyle is sharp as a tack. It allowed the Shrek world to poke at more than the conventions of fairytales. But while Shrek 2 is entertaining, it already begins to show some to kill a king maps signs of wear and tear, wear that would become most apparent in part three. While I do not advocate that plots in sequels become more outlandish and increase in scale and scope exponentially without good cause, there is something to be said for the exploration of new themes and paradigms that such endeavors can reveal. Shrek seems to have adopted a more ÁnormalÁ approach to its sequel ideas, retreading much of the same fairytale notions mined in the original, and tethering them to truly domestic-drama story threads. Joining the voice cast for the sequel is some great British talent. Jennifer Saunders French Saunders and Absolutely Fabulous delivers a convincing conniving fairy godmother character replete with wand-waving song and dance numbers, and enough malicious intent to make you doubt the veracity of magic dust. She is joined by Rupert Evert as the whiny, spoiled Prince Charming, whose self-indulgence is matched only by his propensity to wave his golden locks in slow motion. Voicing the King is the wonderful John Cleese, and as the Queen, the lovely Julie Andrews though sadly, she does not sing. á Despite the Beverly Hills parody, Shrek 2 does not seem to grow the world it inhabits, nor does it retreat from its original concept. It misses an opportunity to cast its story net wide enough to surprise, but remains a very funny animated film regardless, filled with the same high-quality voice casting from Myers, Murphy, and Diaz, and still filled with cheeky humor and gross-out gags that gave this animated world a little edge. Shrek the Third finds Shrek and Fiona subbing for the sickly King and, upon his death, ShrekÁs quest to find Arthur, a potential heir to the throne while fighting off a threat from a minor-character revolt. Perhaps the biggest flaw with the third film in the franchise is the perpetual sense that it is merely coasting on the familiarity with its characters achieved from the first two entries. In addition to the pedestrian plotting of ShrekÁs fear and discomfort at the idea of becoming a parent, this third outing finds a washed up Prince Charming rallying the forgotten and discarded sub-characters from fairytales against the kingdom as Shrek heads out on a quest to find the long-lost heir to the kingdom to replace the recently deceased King and get Shrek off the hook from fulfilling the pomp and circumstance of the role. Prince Charming assembles an army filled with the likes of the disgruntled Hook, the underappreciated seven dwarves, and a slew of broom-riding witches among others. ShrekÁs journey has him find Arthur, who prefers to be referred to as Artie; a weakling attending school and the berated and bullied butt of all the studentÁs jokes. Artie is capably voiced by Justin Timberlake, and the short appearance of Merlin is voiced by Eric Idle. Sadly, the entire Arthurian concept is added to the stories mix almost as an after though and, as such, doesnÁt really fit with the rest of the Shrek world. There are funny moments in Shrek the Third, but the feeling of being on cruise control is inescapable. The world of Shrek is shrunken by the events that unfold, and far too often the lack of imagination in the film drains the joy. Shrek Forever After finds the lovable green ogre living a life of routine, familial normalcy, and as almost side-show attraction. The once happy to kill a king maps of scaring the locals and being the feared Á and mostly left alone brute of the forest is but a distant dream. Though joyed by winning the heart of his sweetheart and having brought into the world three lovable mini-ogres, Shrek is unfulfilled.