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Shrek 4-D
(Universal Express)
What it is
3-Dmovie.
Scope and scale
Headliner.
Fright potential
Loudbutnotfrighten-
ing. Preshow area is a little macabre.
Bottleneck rating
7.
When to go
The first hour the
parkisopenorafter4p.m.
Authors' rating
Warm,fuzzymayhem; .
Duration of show
20 minutes.
Probable waiting time
16 minutes. The preshow presents the villain from
the movie, Lord Farquaad, as he appears on various screens to describe his posthumous
plan to reclaim his lost bride, Princess Fiona, who married Shrek. The plan is posthumous
since Lord Farquaad ostensibly died in the movie, and it's his ghost making the plans, but
never mind. Guests then move into the main theater, don their 3-D glasses, and recline in
seats equipped with “tactile transducers” and “pneumatic air propulsion and water spray
nodules capable of both vertical and horizontal motion.” As the 3-D film plays, guests are
also subjected to smells relevant to the on-screen action (oh boy).
This attraction is a real winner. It's irreverent, frantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and
iconoclastic. Concerning the last, the film takes a good poke at Disney, with Pinoc-
chio, the Three Little Pigs, and Tinker Bell (among others) all sucked into the may-
hem. In contrast to Disney's
It's Tough to Be a Bug!, Shrek 4-D
doesn't generally
frighten children under age 7.
Take off the 3-D glasses if it is all too scary, and consider earplugs. Did you
know that
Shrek
in German means “the scare”?
