This short cartoon is made as 4D ride in Universal Studios. 3D glasses, moving seats, water spraying in your face, spiders crawling up your legs... I suppose it must be very entertaining experience. But movie itself should be bit better. I don't understand why they always slack the story whenever they have great effects. Still, it's just dozen minutes long so it has no time to bore you with lack of story, and animation and jokes are pretty good.7/10It bought me with:"Got a donkey, carriage made of onion, it's dark and our horses are wearing sunglasses. - To the chase, donkey, just cut to the chase. - Hit it, boys."

'Shrek 4-D' is a lame excuse to use very popular characters in a 3-D animation for a theme park. It seems like the makers thought the 3-D element would be enough to make this watchable, but I think most fans of the 'Shrek'-films will be utterly disappointed.The story sees Fiona (Cameron Diaz) being kidnapped by the evil lord Farquaad (John Lithgow), as a ghost of course, since he died in 'Shrek'. He has a ghost dragon to help him stop Shrek (Mike Myers) who wants to save Fiona. Shrek is helped by Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and the real dragon.What is missing in this 'Shrek' film is the wit and the references to other moving images. There are some funny moments, but they all deal with the less important characters like the Gingerbread Man, Three Blind Mice, Thelonious and Pinocchio. Those small moments are references and they work, but other than that there is the 3-D, nothing else.It will probably be enough for most people who just want to have a little fun, but even the three minutes of the 'Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party' are more entertaining than this.

When I went to the Universal Studios, I was sure, that the new attraction named Shrek 4-D was not very special. But I was totally wrong! First when your enter in the ride, they explain to you the story of Shrek 1, and like this even people who didn't see the movie can enjoy the ride, for people who saw the movie, this part might be long and boring, but it will be great after:P When I came in the theater, I sat and my father told me at least one ride where we won't get wet! But he was wrong!! Shrek 4-D is greater than an ordinary 3-D animation, because you don't just see it as you are there you feel as you are there! Like if something fall down, there are going to put compressed air on your feet to make you feel it's real. Or if someone sneeze, you will receive water in your face. I really liked it, it was exciting, funny and there was a lot of adventure and action! If the line-up wasn't so long, I probably will have do a second time this ride! Excellent, everybody will like it!

Shrek 4-D is a newly opened ride at Universal Studio's in Orlando Florida and I believe also Universal Hollywood.You are taken into a room prior to entering the movie theatre and are given a brief overview of what happened in Shrek, the original movie. The attendant in the room continually threatens your with a flogging. This is fun the first time you see it, but by the third time, it is pretty tedious.I do not normally like 3D, the effect makes me feel sick and I tend to have to keep taking my 3D glasses on and off, yet I eventually managed to sit through the whole of this ride with my glasses on. So where does 4D come into it? This is where you get squirted with water when donkey sneezes, your chair moves in time with the action and you get to feel lovely `spiders' running under your legs.Shrek is an excellent ride, worthy of several attempts, regardless of age. However my favourite Universal ride is still MiB!