Shrek Goes Fourth

[tealin]

Upon learning today that the newest incarnation of Dreamworks' cash cow is to be called Shrek Goes Fourth, I realized they were following the Blackadder naming convention, and the inevitable crossover followed:

DONKEY: Hey Shrek! I got a cunning plan!
SHREK: Tell me, Donkey ... Is it more cunning than a weasel with a doctorate in cunning from Cunning University that has just broken into the cunning reserves and eaten so much cunning that it is literally oozing out his ears?

The more I think about this, the more I believe it would be bad enough to be actually entertaining.

This crossover reminded me of a thing I heard on Radio 4 ... I think it was on Recorded for Training Purposes. Hollywood is all about remakes, yes? And every time a trailer runs for a remake the audience cringes at the butchery because the original was always better. So a studio catches on to this and, on the website for an atrocious remake, they solicit donations, saying if they can make up the budget of the movie they won't release it in theatres, and lo, it succeeds! This turns out to be such a profitable enterprise that they give up making real movies at all; they simply buy up the rights to old classics (Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life, Thelma and Louise, etc) and shoot a trailer for a version starring Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers (doing their Shrek voices, of course), and make a fortune. They performed a number of these trailers; they were fantastic. I should have recorded it. The end.

Comments

[okiwan.livejournal.com]

I was confused. I looked at the drawing before I read the post. I thought the crossover was Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime. Shrek looks like Bob to me. I guess I have not seen enough Blackadder.

Shrek Goes Fourth is a crap idea. The third was bad enough.