[Shrek Forever After] is a satisfactory way to end the series.

The rot set in with the third film, I think, and now, with the fourth, it's decomposed and gone to that black sludge you get at the bottom of the bin.

The movie is a family drama about the family drama, so on every available level it works a treat.

Little kids will lap this up with the same zeal as Donkey digging into a stack of his beloved waffles, but adults will find nothing new here, just another retread of ideas exhausted in the previous entries.