Shrek Forever After premiered at Tribeca

The fourth and supposedly final Shrek film, Shrek Forever After was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre. It was a glitzy affair for the film, the first in the franchise to be released in 3-D. Given the box-office boost 3-D films have seen particularly since Avatar the film's studio, Dreamworks, expects a 3-D Shrek to be a hit, capping a franchise that has already earned more than $1 billion at the domestic box office. The new flick would hit the cinemas on May 21. Mike Myers (Shrek), Cameron Diaz (Fiona), Eddie Murphy (Donkey) and Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots, the Zorro-like feline gave the voiceovers in the flick.The film takes the shape of It's a Wonderful Life. A mid-life crisis comes to Shrek, now a father of three, who laments the loss of his younger, wilder days as a fearsome ogre. The evil magician Rumpelstilskin (Walt Dohrn) makes a dubious deal with Shrek, the result being that Shrek was never born and never married Fiona. Puss in Boots, too, has been inverted. In this Shrek, the debonair swashbuckler has turned out an obese house cat, too lazy to shoo a mouse drinking from his bowl. He doesn't even have his namesake's footwear.