Shrek The Third
Animation, Family
Dreamworks  (5/18/2007) 92 mins PG

6.2 (44,966 votes)
Shrek (Mike Meyers) has been chosen to rule the land of Far, Far Away when Fionna's father King Harold (John Cleese) wants to step down with his queen (Julie Andrews). Shrek wants to stay in his swamp, so with the help of Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) , he must attempt to groom prince Artie (Justin Timberlake) to step in. Meanwhile, Fionna (Cameron Diaz) recruits her fairytale princess girlfriends to foil the jilted Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) proving that even in fairy tales, girls still kick butt. Merlin (Eric Idle) and Doris (Larry King) also make an appearance....

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Cast and Crew
Mike Myers  ......  Shrek
Eddie Murphy  ......  Donkey
Cameron Diaz  ......  Princess Fiona
Antonio Banderas  ......  Puss In Boots
Julie Andrews  ......  Queen Lillian
John Cleese  ......  King Harold
Director  .....  Raman Hui; Chris Miller
Producer  .....  Andrew Adamson; Aron Warner; Denise Nolan Cascino
Writer  .....  Andrew Adamson; Aron Warner; Jeffrey Price; William Steig
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: When the women prepare to fight, the Queen marks her face with lipstick, but in the next shots, during the fighting scene, we can clearly see there are no red marks on her face. (more)

Trivia:
From a list of stats reported in Famous magazine: - It took 1,000,000 man-hours to complete the film with a crew size of 150 - Of the 4,500 costumes that were designed for the film only 2,500 actually made it into the final cut. - 1,373 characters are present in the theatre scene with Prince Charming performing. This is recorded as the largest crowd scene of all three Shrek movies. - There are 23 key fairy tale characters that appear through out the film and a total of 4,378 generic characters that were available for the animators to pull from library when making crowd scenes. - 62,173 branches per tree with 191,545 leaves per tree. - As for bricks there are 1,602 bricks making up the docks and 3,196 bricks making up the sewer walls the Princesses use as escape. - A total of 60 new "environments" were created for the movie (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Prince Charming: Onward, Chauncey! To the highest room of the tallest tower, where my princess awaits rescue by the handsome Prince Charming!
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 12 nominations (more)