Shrek the Third/YMMV

These things about Shrek the Third are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

Crowning Music of Awesome: The cover of Barracuda. Heck yes.
- That and Snow White's beautiful woodland friends' lullaby suddenly becoming "Immigrant Song".
- Puss and Donkey's cover of "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)".
Ensemble Darkhorse: Lancelot for being less bland than Arthur.
Fanon Discontinuity: A good amount of Shrek fans want to pretend this film never happened.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- Look at the lineup of faux-Disney Princesses - Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty... Rapunzel? But that wasn't a Disney movie... at the time.
- Merlin helps Shrek see into... the FUTURE.
Jerkass Woobie: Prince Charming. After enduring grief and humiliation now that he no longer has the power his mama gave him, all he wanted was his own Happily Ever After... which he probably would have gotten had he not stayed a villain by choice.
Memetic Mutation: DA DA!
Nightmare Fuel:
- The dream that Shrek has after he "wakes up" from his other dream.
  - DA DA.
- The DVD menus, especially the main menu. A bunch of curtains open, a bunch of fake clouds descend on THOUSANDS of strings (looking eerily like marionettes), and all you see is the blank, gloomy-looking, huge and not quite real-looking stage where Charming's play takes place. No characters, no voiceovers, just that enormous and clearly artificial stage, engulfed in darkness, with sinister music playing in the background. The submenus (for extras, language selection, etc.) sort of subvert this by having some of the main characters present, but the huge menu titles meant to look like suspended stage props are still kinda creepy.
The Scrappy: The ogre babies; they only appeared near the end of the movie, but many people dismissed them as a kid-oriented Tastes Like Diabetes marketing gimmick.
Sequelitis: Shrek the Third is widely considered the weakest sequel.
What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: A heavily Bowlderized version of Matt White's "Best Days" appears in the credits. Parents who bought the song may be shocked when he says "lying naked under the covers"

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