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First Look at Shrek Forever After!

Source:USA Today

November 25, 2009

USA Today has published a first look at DreamWorks Animation's Shrek Forever After, the final film in the series that will hit theaters and IMAX in 3D on May 21st. The first trailer will be released with James Cameron's Avatar, which opens on December 18.

Director Mike Mitchell told the newspaper that Shrek is feeling over-domesticated in the fourth installment. "He has lost his roar. It used to send villagers running away in terror. Now they run to him and ask him to sign their pitchforks and torches."

To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, who is voiced by Walt Dohrn, the film's head of story. The pact goes awry and Shrek must confront what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed. That translates into Donkey being forced into cart-pulling duty, fat and lazy Puss in Boots trading his sword for a pink bow and the underhanded Rumpelstiltskin ruling the kingdom.

Comedians Kathy Griffin and Kristin Schaal ("Flight of the Conchords") are joining the voice cast as witches who hunt ogres. On the side of good is an underground resistance group led by Jon Hamm of "Mad Men," who plays "the best-looking ogre you've ever seen," Mitchell says.

COMMENTS (35)

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November 25, 2009

Hope its better than number 3

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adam williams

November 25, 2009

ya shreck is back !!!! can,t wait

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Jay-D

November 25, 2009

This is going to suck, Shrek is dead.

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Big Dog

November 25, 2009

The problem with two is that it was a little too much like the second one Charming as the villian trying to rule Far Far Away....
This seems orginal and different with a new plot twist and the 3D should add an extra element.

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Big Dog

November 25, 2009

I mean the third

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Edmund

November 25, 2009

Are they running out of ideas already? Sheesh...

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Mike H

November 25, 2009

I know it comes from a bad movie, but Two-Face said it best regarding constant sequels like this:

"Why can't you just die!?"

One has to wonder if Katzenberg will really stop with Shrek 5, or decide to make more.

What I find problematic about continuing suquels, is that in cases like Shrek, you keep developing him until it seems the charm that you saw when you first met him soon is long gone, as he develops into a whole new person along the way. He worried about being attractive in the 2nd, worried about parenthood in the 3rd, and now he's questioning his existence.

I remember one article where Katzenberg said the 5th movie would give prequel information, like just how Shrek ended up in the swamp. I wonder what it'll be called? "Shrek to the Fifth-ture,' perhaps?

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mr. awesome

November 25, 2009

if you notice the article above, it says that the 4th one is the last one.

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Christoph Waltz Deserves An Oscar

November 25, 2009

Time to put the franchise to bed it's ran it's course.

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WCB

November 25, 2009

Plot sounds interesting. Hopefully it'll be better than Shrek the third.