“I don’t know how long I can keep this up!” gripes everyone’s favourite ogre at the start of Shrek The Third, as he reluctantly prepares to stand in for his ailing father-in-law at a swanky function. Too easy, perhaps, to apply his remark to a fractured fairytale franchise that has earned a monstrous $1.4 billion so far at the global box office and Farquaad knows how much more in DVD sales. Still, you can’t help thinking that DreamWorks has taken its computer-animated cash-cow about as far as it can go with a third outing that adds precious little to what has gone before.
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