This past weekend brought us the 4th and final installment of the Shrek movies. In this one, Shrek (Mike Meyers) finds himself going through somewhat of a midlife crisis. He is now just a married father of three, and he longs for the days when he ruled the forest and struck fear into all that came into his presence. He feels he is no longer a real ogre. Then Shrek meets a smooth talking dream giver named, Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn). He promises Shrek that he can give him his wish of once again being a terrifying ogre for one day, for in return of Shrek giving him one day of his life he doesn’t care about. Shrek agrees, but after he wakes up in his new alternate version of Far Far Away, he soon discovers that there have been a lot of changes. The most drastic change is that now Rumpelstiltskin is the ruler of Far Far Away, and Ogres are hunted and enslaved in his castle. On the run, Shrek finds the secret hideout of the last remaining ogres and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) is their leader. Shrek only has until daylight to convince Fiona that they were once married with kids, if he is to ever be able to return to his past life. With the help of Donkey(Eddie Murphy) and Puss(Antonio Banderas), who don’t even know him in this alternate world, will he be able to make things right again? Or will he fail and therefore be erased from existence.

Have you ever been in a relationship and felt that your partner was way above or below your standards? Well don’t let that bother you anymore, because if you love that person that’s all that matters, right? In the new movie “She’s Out of My League” the story is about an average guy named Kirk (Jay Baruchel) who works for an airport as a security agent. One day a drop dead gorgeous woman named Molly (Alice Eve) comes through the terminal’s security station and leaves her phone by mistake. When she calls it, Kirk finds it and she asks him to hold it till she returns from her trip. As a thank you, Molly invites Kirk to a hockey match and to his surprise he learns that Molly actually likes him. Now Kirk’s friends and family can’t figure out why a girl like Molly, who they believe to be a solid 10, would want a guy like Kirk, who they say is a 5. Even Kirk wonders how she could be into a guy like himself. Will this relationship work? Or is she just way out of his league?

So last week brought us the second installment of “Transformers”. In this one it starts two years after the first battle on earth between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Sam Witwickey (Shia LaBeouf) is starting college and is trying his best not to lose touch with his sexy girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). The Decepticons are bent on revenge and they are searching for a secret weapon that was left on Earth many, many years ago by their ancestors. Leading them this time around is their original ruler “The Fallen”, who wants nothing less than the death of Optimus Prime. Meanwhile, the Autobots have joined forces with the humans in an attempt to keep the scattered Decepticons from causing anymore damage on the planet.

So I took my kids to see “Monsters vs. Aliens”. This animated movie is about a woman named Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) who is hit by a giant meteor and grows 49 feet in height. The government captures her, renames her “Ginormica” and puts her at a secret location where they have hidden all monsters since the 50’s. In the facility she meets “Dr. Cockroach Ph.D” (Hugh Laurie), “The Missing Link” (Will Arnett), “B.O.B.” (Seth Rogen), and a 350 foot grub named “Insectosaurus”. They are soon teamed up to save the planet from a giant alien robot that lands in California. But the robot won’t be they’re only problem, for his alien master “Galaxhar” is on his way to Earth and he’s not looking to be friendly.

This past weekend the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa came out and everyone from the first hit movie was there for a second helping of funny. Just to brush you up on the story. In the first one, four animals from the Central Park Zoo, Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippopotamus (Jada Pinkett–Smith) escaped from the zoo and when they get captured are sent away on freight to Africa. They fall off the ship and end up in Madagascar. Well in this one, along with the help from their friends the penguins, who also left the zoo and are in Madagascar, they hatch up a plan to get back to New York on a plane that was wrecked on the island.