Review of the cartoon Shrek 4: Forever. Swamp of Love
All happy families are equally happy - even if it's a pair of ogres or a donkey with a dragon and a brood of dragons. Have you ever wondered why there are no fairy tales about what happened to the characters after the phrase "lived happily ever after"? It's not a lack of imagination - there just really isn't much to say. Milyaga Shrek quickly got tired of the syrup of the toothless everyday life of a happy family man - and signed a magic deal that the insidious dwarf Rumplestiltchen slipped him into. Now he has a day to return to Fiona and friends who don't even remember him, or disappear - and in this convex and exciting adventure he is again - the good old "Shrek 4: Forever"! In one of my favorite philosophical anecdotes, a Jew buys three kilograms of tomatoes - and first eats two slightly spoiled ones. And the next day, two more. And so - all three kilograms. The prospect of lasting happiness does something terrible to us: colors fade, sensations dull, and we go crazy. The creators of the enchanting innovative cartoon "Shrek" are very lively and wise guys: they realized that their story with each successive continuation began to acquire more and more similarities with kilograms of rotting tomatoes. Understood - and took the best action they could possibly take. In the new, fourth "Shrek", announced as the last, everything is like the last time. Having reached the natural end (rather dull, like everything is natural), the story returned to the beginning - and again exploded with a fountain of jokes, Stebalov and a huge number of parodies of popular movies. The fourth "Shrek" - if not the best of all, then certainly the best of all the "Shreks" that have been pleasing us since 2001. Shrek is again hunted funny, the donkey sings, the cat makes eyes (and does not fit into his boots), and Fiona is an amazing ogre Amazon, from which you can not take your eyes off. (Redheads - go with your hair down: all the ogres will be yours!)The famous paintings of the 2000s are parodied in a funny and rather subtle way (whoever doesn't like it - won't pay attention): from the traditional "Matrix" to "Blade II" and "Vanilla Sky". Rebel ogres, made to look like the orcs from "The Lord of the Rings" for added banter, have a funny plot with the recent excellent cartoon "How to Train Your Dragon". And the family flight of Shrek, Fiona, a donkey and a cat on a pink dragon is even more reminiscent of Hiccup's dizzying turns with the Night Fury in a cloudy sky. It is not enough to say that "Shrek Forever" is charged with humor and banter - it contains a whole series of hysterically funny scenes in which you don't even laugh, but simply squeak and bang your fist on the knee. Among them - the scene of a romantic massacre (hello to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith") and, of course, the "crumb", which arranges a shortbread cookie for cookies-animals in the best traditions of "Gladiator". A little freak with a three-story name Rumplestiltchen is a sparkling villain: with his interchangeable wigs "to suit the mood" and an army of stylish witches on flying brooms, he makes you wait for the continuation of his intrigues, because - oh, how good, bastard! 3D is also good: the stereo effect added to "Shrek" a lot of beauties like Fiona, flying upward in slow motion - straight to the audience - or all sorts of voluminous, textured objects that you just want to touch! Cartoons about Shrek have always been very intelligent and clarifying a lot in life. The creators of the cartoon about the milaga-ogre proved long ago that the appearance corresponds to nature: the ogre, although kind, is still a Monster at first, and will cease to be himself if he is completely without tin. But "Shrek Forever" went even further - it clarifies something about life itself, in which we are chasing happiness. If you pulled yourself out of the swamp, kissed the princess, and everything is fine, do not relax: peace and contentment quickly turn life into a swamp, where (and with whom) you live. It has long been known: life is movement; but the rhythm can be different. "Shrek Forever" is about the fact that life is not a measured gait, but rather - surfing on the ridge today, provided that there may not be tomorrow. There is nothing sad here: the end is a new beginning (as in the case of a cartoon), and happiness is not a state, but the lightning of such beginnings replacing each other. The Topic of Article: Review of the cartoon Shrek 4: Forever. Swamp of Love. |
