Tag: Shrek

  In “Shrek Forever After,” the title ogre is feeling claustrophobic in his own life — the daily domestic scene makes him long for the days when he was free to terrorize the countryside and skirmish with the torch-and-pitchfork crowd. There’s a spot in the movie were a creepy little kid sourly demands that the simmering Shrek perform his trademark bellow. “Do the roar,” the crabby tot says, giving us the movie’s catchphrase. Now, here in Hollywood, the question is whether the movie monster can still roar at all.  I took the family to see ”Shrek Forever After” in IMAX 3D on Sunday at The Bridge and it was big-time in every way — big with the massive IMAX screen, big with the crisp thunder of the sound system and, best of all, big with the familiar stars rediscovering the franchise’s comedy mojo. The opening-weekend crowd (which happened ...