I watched Shrek Forever After and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time one week apart and both flicks I find them enjoyable and memorable.
First, I am a big fan of the Shrek series, including the third part which everyone hates. The story is quite touching, a little deep and quite refreshing. It is surprisingly the amount of pop culture references the series is famous for is less on this installment. The humor is still clever and the story is predictable, but as a humble movie reviewer, I am easily pleased. The visuals were outstanding especially if you watched the 3D version and the overall presentation is better than the previous movie.
A very good closure for the series, if it is definitely the last chapter that is but the rumored fifth part of the series is currently circulating the veins of the net, but I think this movie is already good to end one of the most interesting 3D animated movie series ever. I give this movie with a shreking score of 4 stars out of 5 stars.
On the other corner we have Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, an old videogame franchise with awesome gaming history which consists of old Persian sword fights and acrobatics porn, I mean a prince obsessed with acrobatics.
Majority of videogame based movies were notorious of receiving negative feedback but this movie is one of those which turned out great. The story is loosely based from the game of the same name which I never played before but who cares, the movie was enjoyable and awesome, and to think this is the first time in countless years I watched a live action Disney movie.
All characters did awesome jobs in portraying their respective roles despite all those characterization debacles protesting Gyllenhaal's being caucasian playing a Persian prince. It's all about the presentation and how to convince the audience that you are portraying a character.
The story greatly reminds me of the Lion King for some reason where everyone wants to wear the crown and pose like a king, except for the main character named Prince Dastan, since all he wants to climb walls and leap from rooftops to another. Speaking of rooftop leaping, the movies has one of the greatest and creative stunt works ever complimented with stunning visuals especially during the siege of that holy city that houses the Sands of Time dagger.
In the end, the movie is great and the money is worth it, and hopefully they developed film versions of the succeeding sequels Warriors Within and Two Thrones soon. Since I am easily amused and have a great history of watching videogame based movies, even that god awful Postal, I give this movie 3.75 stars out of 5 stars.
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