“I thought it was the worst title in the world. It sounded like the sound I make after drinking 12 Molson Canadian beers.”—Mike Myers, on his reaction to hearing the title of the script that would become his huge hit Shrek, quoted in David Karger, “ ‘Shrek Forever After’: Ogre and Out,” Entertainment Weekly, May 28, 2010
Have you seen the latest—and, one hopes, last—in the Shrek series, faithful reader? I haven’t (though I admit to being sorely tempted this past weekend, simply to escape our way-too-early heat wave). I fear that the energy has seeped out of this massively successful franchise, the way it had out of Myers’ third try at Austin Powers.
If that’s the case with the Shrek Forever After, I don’t want to be in any theater where every person in the audience sounds like he’s had 12 Molson Canadian beers. The noise—and olfactory—pollution this would cause would be beyond description.
Have you seen the latest—and, one hopes, last—in the Shrek series, faithful reader? I haven’t (though I admit to being sorely tempted this past weekend, simply to escape our way-too-early heat wave). I fear that the energy has seeped out of this massively successful franchise, the way it had out of Myers’ third try at Austin Powers.
If that’s the case with the Shrek Forever After, I don’t want to be in any theater where every person in the audience sounds like he’s had 12 Molson Canadian beers. The noise—and olfactory—pollution this would cause would be beyond description.
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