Mini-Review: Shrek the Third has convinced me that the Shrek series no longer needs further installments. The charm is gone, or maybe the missing element was just the good writing. This is a frequently boring, formulaic film that bring forth the occasional laugh and always looks good. The team creating this film didn't get lazy, but the writers might have. Even fans of the first two films might not find all that much to like here.

Mini-Review: Shrek is an enjoyable animated film for everyone. It is smart, funny, and while it will obviously appeal to children, it doesn't dumb down its content to make it inaccessible to adults. The animation is beautiful, and the world that's created is something that you want to spend a lot of time within. While it does begin to unravel near its conclusion as we stop getting action and move more into dramatic territory, this is still a very fun film that anyone can enjoy.

Mini-Review: Crash is interesting only because of its subject matter. After you get past that, there's little to keep you engaged and I ended up becoming bored thanks to the lack of a real story and the poorly developed characters. There needs to be something to keep the audience watching your film, and Crash didn't have anything. It might be a controversial film thanks to the sex scenes, and the car crashes feel more real than many other films, but Crash isn't worth your time.

Mini-Review: Powder Blue is ultimately not worth your time, even if I liked most of the actors in it. There's too much going on to tie up by the end, with a lot of important points being forgotten about at the mid-way point. Characters are difficult to understand as well, leading to more than one point in the film where you'll wonder why exactly they act the way they did. I also wasn't sure of what Powder Blue wanted to tell me, which is also part of the problem of using such a crowded and messy screenplay.

Mini-Review: I know that a lot of people will be put off not only because this is a drama starring Mel Gibson, but also because it features Mel Gibson and a sentient puppet. These kinds of things sometimes can't be overcome now matter how open minded you want to be. But if both of these things aren't too much of a turn-off, I definitely have to give it a recommendation. I went in expecting a film so bad that it would be a riot, and I ended up with a touching drama about a man in a terrible state of mind.