“Shrek the Third” feels like that five-course meal that never quite fills one up and ultimately leads to a 7-11 stop on the way home. It’s lavish and impressive and goes through all the proper motions ...

"Shrek the Third" manages to be something of a paradox: It contains two theoretically self-canceling polarities. It's (a) quite funny and (b) quite bad. Hmm, possibly that's actually harder to pull ...

Misunderstood giants? None have ever been as popular as Shrek, star of two huge summer hits since 2001. Paramount's grumpy-green-ogre franchise is the epitome of the hand-hold movie: family flicks ...