Shrek forever

Movie
German title	Shrek forever
Original title	Shrek Forever After
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2010
length	approx. 89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6 JMK 6
Rod
Director	Mike Mitchell
script	Josh Klausner Darren Lemke based on the book by William Steig
production	Gina Shay Teresa Cheng
music	Harry Gregson-Williams
camera	Yong Duk Jhun
cut	Nick Fletcher Lynn Hobson Christopher Knights James Ryan
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Shrek the Third

Shrek Forever After is an American animated film. As the fourth part of the Shrek film series after Shrek - The daring hero (2001), Shrek 2 - The daring hero returns (2004) and Shrek the third (2007), it was released in the US on May 21, 2010. The German-language premiere was on June 30, 2010.

The script idea Shrek Goes Fourth comes from Tim Sullivan, this story was adapted by Darren Lemke and Josh Klausner. Mike Mitchell directed. On February 23, 2009 the plot was presented. As with the first three films in the Shrek series, this film also makes use of many fairy tale themes . The film was also released in a 3D version as the first film in the Shrek film series .

action

After his numerous adventures, Shrek has become a settled family man. Instead of continuing to scare off villagers, Shrek is popular and now hands out autographs on pitchforks. But due to the monotony of his life, he feels unfulfilled and gets a fit of anger on his children's first birthday, whereupon he leaves the party in an argument with his wife Fiona. Driven by the longing to feel “like a real ogre ” again, he lets himself be persuaded to make a pact with the eloquent Rumpelstiltskin . For a day as a real ogre, Shrek must give Rumpelstiltskin a day of his own life. While Shrek does not suspect any harm and hopes for a relaxing day like in the old days, the shrewd Rumpelstiltskin chose exactly the day on which Shrek was born - with the result that Shrek, after he was never born, never existed. This creates a time paradox - Shrek finds himself in an alternative parallel world of the Kingdom of Far Far Away . Rumpelstiltskin rules there as a tyrannical dictator supported by an army of witches . Artie was deposed as king and has disappeared. Hunted to near extinction, the ogres have organized themselves underground to start a revolution. The donkey is an intellectual who has to pull carts, but has never met Shrek and is afraid of him. The gingerbread man is a cookie-fighting gladiator . Puss in Boots is a fat, lazy pet belonging to Fiona, who has now freed herself from the dragon tower and leads an ogres resistance group. Tragically, at first she can't stand Shrek, whom she has also never met before. In his pact with Rumpelstiltskin it is determined that if Shrek manages to share “true love's first kiss” with Fiona by dawn the next day, he will release Artie as king and the pact with Rumpelstiltskin will be invalid becomes. Should Shrek fail to achieve this, however, then after he was never born he will disappear. In order to prevent a connection between Shrek and Fiona, Rumpelstiltskin sends an army of witches and other henchmen to stop and catch him.

Rumpelstiltskin also puts a bounty on Shrek. The reward is the fulfillment of any wish. Shrek then surrenders himself in order to be granted this wish. He wants the captured ogres to be released, with the ulterior motive that Fiona will also be released. But because of the curse that makes Fiona alternate between human and ogre, Rumpelstiltskin does not count her as a full-fledged ogre. In the throne room of the castle of Weit Weit Weg, a battle develops between the freed ogres and the witches of Rumpelstiltskin. In the course of the fight, Rumpelstiltskin is captured by the ogres. But for Shrek, the victory over Rumpelstiltskin and the witches seems to come too late. He begins to dissolve, as the promised "one day as a real ogre" is over. Fiona has fallen in love with Shrek after all and gives him the one decisive kiss. As a result, the parallel world dissolves and Shrek finds himself at his children's birthday party at the time when he threatens to have his tantrum. He can still remember the experiences in the parallel world and therefore enjoys being back with his family and friends.

background

publication

Shrek Forever After celebrating its world premiere on April 21, 2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival in the USA. On May 16, 2010 it was shown in Universal City , California , before being shown in US cinemas on May 21, 2010. It was shown in German and Swiss cinemas on June 30, 2010, and one day later in Austria . From November 25, 2010 Shrek Forever After was available on DVD , Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D . The free TV premiere in German-speaking countries took place on October 27, 2010 on ORF eins and Sat 1 , the Swiss broadcaster SF 2 broadcast the film on October 19 of the same year.

Grossing results

The last part of the Shrek saga was also the most expensive with a production cost of 165 million US dollars . But despite the higher ticket prices for 3D films, this animated film could not trump its predecessors. In the US, it took in over $ 238 million, but undercut the income from the first film, which amounted to just under $ 267.7 million. The fourth part brought in a total of 752.6 million US dollars worldwide, of which around 25 million US dollars in Germany , 46.6 million US dollars in France , 51.3 million US dollars in Russia and 51.0 million US dollars in the UK . In Germany, around 2.5 million viewers saw the film in cinemas. This means that this part of the film series was also more successful than any other DreamWorks project. The Shrek tetralogy grossed a total of around 2.9 billion US dollars at the box office, more than 100 million US dollars of which in German cinemas, making it one of the most successful film series of all time.

Facts about the story

The fourth part is the first film in the film series in which Prince Charming is neither seen nor mentioned. The Pied Piper of Hameln, on the other hand, already appeared in a small supporting role in Shrek - The daredevil hero . The flute solos played by the Pied Piper of Hameln were recorded by Jeremy Steig , a well-known jazz musician, whose father William Steig is the author of the Shrek novels.

speaker

For the main and secondary characters, the speakers of the previous Shrek films could almost without exception be engaged again, only Rumpelstiltskin was prominently replaced and Bernhard Hoëcker could be won for this role. The German dubbing of the film took again the Berliner Synchron AG in Berlin under the dialogue director of Michael Nowka , who also for the dialogue book was responsible.

figure	Original speaker	German speaker
Shrek	Mike Myers	Sascha Hehn
Fiona	Cameron Diaz	Esther Schweins
ass	Eddie Murphy	Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Puss in Boots	Antonio Banderas	Benno Fürmann
Rumpelstiltskin	Walt Dohrn	Bernhard Hoëcker
Queen Lillian	Julie Andrews	Marie-Luise Marjan
King Harold	John Cleese	Thomas Danneberg
witch	Kathy Griffin	Almut Zydra
Doris	Larry King	Manfred Lehmann
Gingerbread man	Conrad Vernon	Santiago Ziesmer
wolf	Aron Warner	Engelbert von Nordhausen
Pinocchio	Cody Cameron	Gerald Schaale
Brogan	Jon Hamm	Detlef Bierstedt
Cookie	Craig Robinson	Christian Gaul
Dragon	Frank Welker

Walt Dohrn spoke in all the voices at the storyboard discussions . Since no other actor seemed more suitable for speaking the role of Rumpelstiltskin, Dohrn lent this character his voice in the original sound of the final film and thus replaced Conrad Vernon , who had previously spoken this fairy tale character Shrek the Third in the third part . Rumpelstiltskin was only seen in a small supporting role and his outward appearance also differed greatly from the appearance in the fourth part.

Soundtrack

On June 25, 2010, the soundtrack was released by Alive, which contains 16 music tracks from the film music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams .

No.	title
1.	Once (More) Upon A Time
2.	Rumpelstiltskin
3.	Same day, every day
4th	Shrek Signs The Deal
5.	Rumpel s Kingdom
6th	The Exit Clause
7th	Ogre Resistance
8th.	Din Din!
9.	Rumpel's announcement
10.	Planning the attack
11.	Fiona doesn't love me
12.	Deal Of A Lifetime
13.	The main event
14th	Rumble's Defeat
15th	His Day Is Up
16.	Never been better

criticism

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm judges: “While pointed gimmicks with modern pop culture myths dominated in the past, the fourth part only has to offer tired jokes from the ogre assembly line. The story copied from part 1 lovelessly modifies the same ideas, and the few new characters - above all Rumpelstiltskin, his fighting goose and the prancing pied piper - are lame decals of already known characters. How good that you can at least rely on the slightly out of shape Puss in Boots. "

Cinema writes that the film is a “disappointing conclusion to the grandiose cartoon series that lacks witty ideas and lively characters”.

Kino.de sums up: “This clever recycling brings wit, the three-dimensional images stretched on Cinemascope for the first time also a visual bonus in this very entertaining and fast-paced sequel, which shows that the cinematic life of the Shrekish does not have to end for a long time. "Shrek forever" needs an exclamation mark! "

At Metacritic, the film achieved a Metascore of 58% with 35 rated reviews. 58% of the film reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes are positive (from 187 rated reviews), while 64% of over 300,000 users rated the film positively.

Awards

The film was nominated for best computer-animated film at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards . In 2011, Shrek Forever After was nominated for Best Family Film at the People's Choice Awards and Best Animated Film by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films . Andrew Young Kim received a nomination for the best animated effects at the 2011 Annie Awards and received another nomination at the VES Awards for outstanding animation effects in an animated film alongside Yancy Lindquist , Jeff Budsberg and Can Yuksel . The 2011 Kids' Choice Awards nominated the film for Best Animated Film, while Cameron Diaz received a nomination for Best Voice in an Animated Film and Eddie Murphy won in the same category.

Web links

Commons : Shrek  - collection of images

• Shrek Forever After at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (German)
• Official website (English)
• Shrek Forever After atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release Certificate for Shrek Forever after . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 060 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Shrek Forever After . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ moviegod.de: Shrek 4 - Shrek forever
4. ^ Mike Mitchell to Direct Shrek 4 , ComingSoon.net. May 7, 2007. Retrieved January 13, 2009. 
5. ↑ Is This How 'Shrek Goes Fourth'? . Retrieved February 24, 2007.
6. ↑ First look: 'Shrek Forever After': Fourth, final film is first in 3-D , USA Today. November 25, 2009. 
7. ↑ Shrek Forever After: An IMAX 3D Experience Movie Overview . Fandango.com. Retrieved December 31, 2009.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} background information according to the Internet Movie Database
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
10. ↑ Shrek 4 ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Shrek Forever After
12. ↑ Shrek forever
13. ↑ ^{a b} budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
14. ↑ Budget and box office results for Shrek - The Daredevil hero according to the Internet Movie Database
15. ↑ Shrek Forever After, on boxofficemojo.com , accessed September 16, 2012
16. ↑ Shrek Forever After - Cast List. (No longer available online.) Berliner Synchron AG , formerly in the original ; accessed on January 4, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
17. ↑ Shrek forever. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 25, 2011 . 
18. ↑ TV feature film : film review
19. ^ Cinema : film review
20. ↑ kino.de: film review
21. ^ Shrek Forever After, on metacritic.com , accessed September 16, 2012
22. ↑ Shrek Forever After at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed September 16, 2012
23. ↑ ^{a b c d} nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database