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Shrek 3 on a Saturday

By Yogi Chopra | June 19, 2007

Shrek 3 on a Saturday

I almost missed it. But there I was, with my gal pals - radka and piyu,chatterin away as the harbour train took us to our destination -

Sterling 3.30 pm show Shrek 3. It was an office outing, all of us had decided to take a break from work, and go watch a movie.

I had expected the whole WAS gang to travel together, but as usual somethin urgent came up, and I was the chosen one to do the job.The task - A leaflet had be designed in exactly 15 minutes( and that too in coreldraw, OMG!)

Being acquainted with my sloooow (and steady too) creativity the guys decided to leave before us to arrange for the movie tickets. Anyways, in the end, impatient of me fiddling around with fonts and colours,Yogi took up the job, and finished it in wat I now remember as 5 mins. Quickly, the file was sent and then…..Ok, I’ll cut the crap.

The movie was good. It opens with the beautiful scene where Charming ( I envy his silky hair..) is riding in the woods…and then goes on to a kinduf scary scene of a shirtless

Shrek on the bed. Yikes!( Actually, “Baapre!” was my exact reaction)

I enjoyed the movie, purely because I was fascinated by the fact that everything was

made on a computer. The whole things spectacular, a pleasure to watch.

Content-wise I liked Shrek 2 a lot more. I found the story and humour in Shrek 3 to be quite childish and okayish… (Rapunzel’s wig fallin off, babies puking, the loony magic teacher…) Its amusing, but not hilarious. The movie has guest appearances by Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow white, Sleeping beauty…and all of them seemed to have the same face ( That of Bridget Fonda, hehe ). And they all looked so weird playing shallow high society

women! Frankly speaking, I didnt like the way Cinderella is portrayed (but its all supposed to be funny. So whatever)

Ofcourse I enjoyed the movie, but in bits in pieces.

Scenes I liked :- The villains attacking the farfaraway city, the charlie’s angels meets feminism sequence, the scenes between the donkey and his cute babies. The best and funniest scene is the one where the gingerbread man’s life flashes before his eyes before his impending death. Damn funny.

The movie brings together many characters from classic fairytales, so you’ll enjoy the movie more if you still remember those stories now. I couldnt place some of them.

All in all, its a fun timepass movie, in my opinion. Go watch it, my friends loooved it, you might too.

—– Shreela Tambe

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