Cinema: Green for go as Shrek returns to the screen

Jul 9 2010 by Lizzie Struthers, Kilmarnock Standard

SHREK Forever After 3D (U) has left its UK box office rivals green with envy.

This is the fourth and final part in the Shrek saga – a huge hit with all the family.

For an ogre, Shrek’s life has been pretty eventful – from challenging an evil dragon, to rescuing a beautiful princess,to saving his in-laws’ kingdom.

But now things are a little dull, and instead of scaring villagers he is reduced to autographing pitchforks.

So he jumps at the chance of seeing some action with Rumplestiltskin. However, he soon finds himself in an alternate world where ogres are hunted, Rumplestiltskin is king and Fiona is nowhere to be found.

Now Shrek has to put things right, and get his old life and his true love back.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (12A) is the third part of the film series.

It sees Seattle ravaged by a spate of mysterious killings and Bella (Kristen Stewart) is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and her friendship with werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner).

A group of elite warriors are hunted by an alien race in the action film Predators (15).

The warriors, made up of ruthless mercenaries, convicts and death squad members, fear nothing and no one.

However, they soon discover that they have been brought together on an alien planet as prey.

Get ready for sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll as Russell Brand and Jonah Hill star in the comedy Get Him To The Greek (15).

Young music executive Aaron Green (Hill) has to fly to London and drag British rocker Aldous Snow (Brand) back to LA to kick off his world tour in the Greek Theatre.

In Killers (12A), Ashton Kutcher stars as Spencer Aimes, an undercover government assassin.

When Spencer meets Jen (Katherine Heigl), he leaves that life behind and settles down.

Three years later the happy couple discover Spencer is the target of a multi-million-dollar hit, and the killers could be any of their friends or neighbours.