DreamWorks' SHREK

Post by **James** » August 4th, 2009, 10:22 am

Not fake. The image is actually a few months old. I don't think it was meant for the general movie-going public like a regular poster. I think it was used when DW announced their upcoming slate of films. I actually used it back on our story about that and just cut out the logo since I assumed the image was not that big a deal.

http://www.animated-news.com/2009/dream ... ing-slate/

Post by **Ben** » August 4th, 2009, 8:20 pm

Even the title treatment is not that big a deal!

Post by **Foxtale** » November 26th, 2009, 12:04 am

I just read an article, It's called "Shrek Forever After"

http://www.adanx.com/movienews/first-lo ... ver-after/

Article contains spoilers.

Post by **Meg** » November 26th, 2009, 12:53 am

No Shrek 5, eh? Well, thank goodness for that at least!

Post by **Ben** » November 26th, 2009, 10:21 am

http://animatedviews.com/2009/the-first ... nksgiving/

Post by **EricJ** » November 26th, 2009, 11:11 am

Once Upon A Dream wrote:Almost every sequel or movie has villains who plots to get revenge at the heroes,that's not similar to Cinderella III.

It's traditional that the Finale usually involves "What if things HADN'T happened that way?", or at least some indication of where the characters would be if they hadn't met each other, just so we're not left wondering.

Which is a happy confirmation that Jeff may have got the message at last and this is the last one, as the original idea for the #4 was going to be another "This week's episode"--
Jeff may be even ending it on a cliche', but at least he's doing it.

Post by **eddievalient** » November 26th, 2009, 11:24 am

After the disappointment of part three, it'll be hard for me to take this one seriously, but I'll still see it for completeness's sake if nothing else.

American_dog_2008 · Post by **American_dog_2008** » November 26th, 2009, 4:10 pm

I loved Shrek the Third.

No Shrek 5, but I can't wait for the Puss movie!

Post by **estefan** » November 26th, 2009, 7:05 pm

I think it would be an interesting idea for the Puss-in-Boots film, if they directly adapted the original story, but still had those Shrek-style jokes. They will probably make up their own original script, but I still think it would be fun if they went that route. I don't even remember Disney adapting the original Puss-in-Boots story.

Post by **Bill1978** » November 26th, 2009, 9:26 pm

Yeah no Shrek 5, maybe they couldn't think of a witting play on words for the the fifth title.

While I don't think the concept is all that original at least it might give the opporutinty for some characters to come back. eg We could see Farquaard return and Fairy Godmother return from the dead

I still have my fingers crossed that Artie makes an appearance, I know it's a minority thought but I thought he was one of the better characters in the third film.

Now hopefully Jeff Kat has ditched his ideas for all those Kung Fu Panda sequels as well.

Post by **Ben** » November 27th, 2009, 10:53 am

If a fifth Shrek was going to continue ripping off the Blackadder titles, then it would have been "The Shrek Five" since the un-made "The Blackadder Five" was going to be set in the 1960s and focus around Edmund's Beatle-like band.

It was funny, because when they changed the name from Shrek Goes Forth, I did wonder if that was because they wanted to warp things up, but leave it open ended for future specials or whatever. Looks like that was right, and Shrek Forever After is a good title to end on in many ways.

I just hope that Shrek Forever After goes out on a high instead of a lame finish. And I don't know about Jung Fu Pandas 3, 4, 5 and 6, but there's definitely a second one still coming, and the TV show.

Post by **Dacey** » November 27th, 2009, 11:50 am

The main problem facing the fourth film is that "The Third" set the bar so low that no one seems to really care about this franchise anymore. When "Shrek 2" came out, there was genuine excitement for it. But even before "The Third" came out, my anticipation for it wasn't high, largely because I could tell from the trailers alone that it might not be very good. And the director switch made me skeptical from the very beginning.

In the end, it took the record for best opening weekend ever for an animated feature, but no one seemed to really notice. Perhaps that was partly because it was sandwhiched between the release dates of Spidey and Pirates, making it seem like "the other threequel" of the month. Or maybe it was because no one really seemed to like it very much.

But it's not just that. We've seen "Shrek" imitated by so many people now--including DreamWorks themselves--that it no longer feels "special" anymore. To be honest, I'm all for the Puss in Boots movie, mainly because I'm fond of the character, but it's hard for me to get too excited about "Shrek Forever After." I know that I'll still see it, though.

Post by **EricJ** » November 27th, 2009, 5:06 pm

Dacey wrote:In the end, it took the record for best opening weekend ever for an animated feature, but no one seemed to really notice. Perhaps that was partly because it was sandwhiched between the release dates of Spidey and Pirates, making it seem like "the other threequel" of the month. Or maybe it was because no one really seemed to like it very much.

If the triple detonation of Spidey, Pirates and Shrek 3 should have taught us anything that year, it's that opening weekends make their money on the people going in to the movie, not the people coming OUT.

But it's not just that. We've seen "Shrek" imitated by so many people now--including DreamWorks themselves--that it no longer feels "special" anymore. To be honest, I'm all for the Puss in Boots movie, mainly because I'm fond of the character, but it's hard for me to get too excited about "Shrek Forever After." I know that I'll still see it, though.

Although I've seen the first movie and bits of the others, I confess I haven't seen a "decline" in the writing from the first one to the sequels (except that the running-gags get more mechanically exploited, like Puss's obligatory kitty-eyes scene)--
It's pretty much been running the same treadmill for three films, except for maybe consciously trying harder to sell its overbearing PC messaging, after Jeff became aware his "money" was on princess-bashing female audiences who were more interested in the social-avenging than in the jokes.

I still believe most if not pretty much ALL of the first movie's money was made on a mass-hypnosis mania that was a product of the anti-Eisner fervor that was just coming to a boil in '01-'02 (back when we thought "Lilo & Stitch" was the "revolutionary messiah" that was going to lead the final war against Bambi)...Go back and read the reviews, fans were picking any, literally any references to fairytale characters as a "long-deserved slam at Disney", unquote, whether they resembled the specific characters or not.
And now that Disney is "okay" in the public's mind again, Jeff K. still trying to sell us Angry Princess jokes comes off not so much dated as like the Loud Guy at the Party: You might have briefly thought he was funny at work, but he started thinking he was a hoot, glutted his own market, and now there's no getting rid of him.

I just have to shake my head every time I see some fan who bought into it heart-and-soul eight years earlier now saying "Gee, the new Shrek movie isn't as funny as I remembered the first one...Maybe the new writers aren't as good?"

Post by **Dacey** » November 27th, 2009, 7:18 pm

The new writers aren't as good.

Or, at least, the writing isn't. I'm honestly not sure if the original writers have stuck around throughout the series or not.

Post by **estefan** » November 27th, 2009, 8:59 pm

I know Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio (two of the writers of the first film) declined to write the sequels, because they felt that "Shrek" should have been like traditional fairy tales by ending with "they lived happilly ever after" and that's it.