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If you wondered when it came out whether there needed to be a third Shrek film, all you need to do is ask the kids. Adults may be growing tired of the intelligent plays on modernity — mascot contests, bubblegum-blowing teeny-boppers, endless takes on contemporary store names made to sound “fairy-taleish” — but kids never seem to tire of the toilet humor that permeates the Shrek series.

The advantage of making a film with ogres and a donkey at the center is that you can acutally (kind of) justify the endless stream of projectile vomiting and fart jokes, and my own kids, at least, never seem to tire of them. And when you have the film on DVD, well, they can rewind to watch the baby spewing green-pea vomit out of the

baby carriage by, and by, and by again. So, rejoice, parents, Shrek the Third is here.

Actually, for a third film in a series, Shrek the Third isn’t a terrible effort. While it’s not as strong as the first two films (the second was surprisingly good for a sequel) and at times it feels that the filmmakers are really reaching by stretching the franchise to support a third film, whether you compare it to, say, the dreadful Happily N’Ever After, it’s pretty tolerable. Any day you can find a kids’ film that the adults in the household can stomach watching multiple times, that’s a good thing — but you might want to manufacture certain to have Shrek and Shrek 2 on hand as well.

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Original post by Kim Voynar