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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 28 June 2007

Donkey, voiced by Eddie Murphy, and Puss in Boots, with Antonio Banderas

Shrek’s bringing in the green stuff

SHREK THE THIRD
Directed by Chris Miller
Certificate U

THE jolly green giant with the Humpty-Dumpty head is back.
When you realise that the first Shrek made £220 million at the box-office, Shrek 2 took in £250 million and this one has already notched up £175 million in its first three weeks in the US alone, you can guess why they’re dishing up a third helping.
No need to alter a hit formula, then. Shrek 3 is very much the mixture as before, with Mike Myers voicing Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey and Antonio Banderas returning as Puss in Boots, the smooth-talking cat who can wield a sword as lethally as he rolls those huge eyes.
The plot is simple. Amiable Shrek suddenly finds himself in line to become the next king – unless he can find a suitable monarch from his home town of Far, Far Away, he could be stuck with the job.
“I’m an ogre. I’m not cut out for this,” he protests to his frog-king father (John Cleese), who is about to croak on his deathbed.
The most promising candidate is his wife Fiona’s (Cameron Diaz) cousin Artie (voiced by Justin Timberlake), a high school slacker who proves to be more of a challenge than they bargained for.
Director Chris Miller helps the family fun along with truly amazing animation and a variety of oddball creatures in a glamorous land of castles, rocky coasts and battlements ripe for invasion by bad-guy Prince Charming (lustily voiced by Rupert Everett).
Palpably a monster hit.

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