Shrek:The Final Chapter(2010)

Here’s a theory about movie franchises:
The first one is always a blockbuster hit, everyone loves it and cant get enough of it.(e.g Spderman,Ironman,Superman,Shrek, etc etc)
Second one is never as good as the first one but usually has a pretty decent storyline and since every fan is waiting for it, it works(Underworld2,spiderman2,Transformers,The Mummy Returns, etc )
The third one is the much awaited final chapter where you have to give a final ending and so most of the characters get killed off but the viewers are sent home satisfied that it was a fit ending (Spiderman3,X-men3,Pirates of the Caribbean3 , Star wars ep.VI etc)
Now what do you do when all the storylines are exhausted and and the characters dead!
You make a PREQUEL!!! And that’s one kind of movie that should have never been made at all(eg.Wolverine, The Scorpion King,Star warsI,II,III etc etc and soon to be made Spiderman too)

Still, Shrek movie-makers took the predictable path and made a “somewhat-prequel” for the fourth installment too.



Shrek:The Final Chapter starts with a scene of a time before Fiona has been rescued by Shrek .Her parents, desperate for a way to lift the curse off their daughter go to Rumpelstiltskin.He agrees to grant them a wish and make their worries go away, in exchange for the Kingdom of Far Far Away.
They are about to sign when the news of Fiona rescue comes and they don’t make the deal with Rumpelstiltskin.
So now Shrek is living in his swamp with three kids, Donkey and his hybrid family and Puss in boots ,Tired of his routine life, and wishing he could become a “real” Ogre once again
Rumpelstiltskin, who is mad that Shrek deprived him of the Kingdom of Far Far Away over hears Shrek’s desire to live just one day before all these things happens and tricks him into signing a deal with him.
Hence Alternate Universe/Prequel-ish movie:

Shrek has never been born, Fiona has never been rescued, Donkey and Dragon have never met, Puss in boots has let himself go and is now a Fat over pampered kitty!Without the boots and hat. And Queen Lillian and King Harold had signed the contract to make "all of their problems disappear", causing them to literally disappear.
Oh and Rumpelstiltskin is the King of Far Far Away living in the castle with plenty of Wizard of Oz-type disco dancing witches.

As an exit clause Shrek has until sunrise to find his true love:Warrior Fiona leading an Ogre Resistance to defeat Rumpelstiltskin, to make her fall in love with him and have that “true love’s kiss” which will make his contract null and void and give him his life back.
As Rumpelstiltskin says:
“How’s that for metaphysical paradox?”

And all that is happening because “Shrek didn’t knew what he had until its all gone”

Apart from the regular characters, the new additions are Rumpelstiltskin and Pied Piper, plenty of new ogres,and the witches.
As Fairytale endings go Shrek and Fiona fall in love AGAIN,Share the true love’s kiss all that yada yada and bring an end to a very unnecessary movie!

Trailer of the movie HERE