Shrek 5 (2019 DreamWorks animated film)

Shrek 5 is an upcoming 2019 American 3D computer-animated action comedy adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the seventh installment of the Shrek film series and Sequel to the 2010 film, Shrek Forever After, and also a direct sequel of the 2018 film, Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves.

Unlike the previous movies, where Shrek is the only main protagonist, the fifth film has six main protagonists: Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, Puss in Boots, Gingerbread Man and Pinocchio.

Cast
Unlike in the previous films, where Shrek was the only main protagonist, in the fifth film this time are six main protagonists: Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, Puss in Boots, Gingerbread Man and Pinocchio.
 * Mike Myers as Shrek, an grumpy but good-hearted ogre, Fiona's husband, Farkle, Fergus and Felicia's father, and Donkey's best friend. Graham Verchere voices an young Shrek, who appears in flashbacks. Unlike in the previous film, where Shrek was the only main protagonist, this time he is one of the six main protagonists, along with Fiona, Donkey, Puss, Gingy and Pinocchio.
 * Eddie Murphy as Donkey, an hyperactive talking donkey, Dragon's husband, Dronkeys's fatger and Shrek's best friend. In thsi film, he is one of the six main protagonists, along with Shrek, Puss, Fiona, Gingy and Pinocchio.
 * Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, the former princess of Far Far Away, King Harold and Queen Lillian's daughter, Shrek's wife, Farkle, Fergus and Felicia's mother and Dragon's best friend. In this film, she is one of the six main protagonists, along with Shrek, Donkey, Puss, Gingy and Pinocchio.
 * Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots, a gentlemanly and charismatic swordscat, Kitty's husband, the Three Diablos' adoptive father and Shrek and Donkey's best friend. In this film, he is one of the six main protagonists, along with Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, Gingy and Pinocchio.
 * Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread "Gingy" Man, a living talking cookie, Pinocchio's best friend and one of Shrek's best friends. He has a bigger role and prominence in this film, being now one of the six main protagonists, along with Pinocchio, Shrek, Donkey, Puss and Fiona. In this film, he develops a crush on Tinker Bell, who in the end, becomes his girlfriend. Vernon also voices the Muffin Man, Gingy's creator/father.
 * Cody Cameron as Pinocchio, a living talking puppet, Gingy's best friend and one of Shrek's best friends. Like Gingy, he has a bigger role and screen time in this film, being now one of the six main protagonists, along with Gingy, Shrek, Donkey, Puss and Fiona. In this film, Pinocchio enjoys playfully teasing Gingy for his crush on Tinker Bell, such as singing "K-I-S-S-I-N-G" with their names in the lyrics, but he is overall supportive of the pair. In this film, he also reveals to have a high degree of leadership skills, as he takes the position as the leader and commander in the battle against Hagus. Cameron also voices the Three Little Pigs, three of Shrek's allies and friends.
 * Frank Walker as Dragon, a giant but gentle female dragon who is Donkey's wife, Dronkeys' mother and Fiona's best friend. In this film, she has a bigger role and more screen time, being one of the four tetartagonists, along with Kitty, Lillian and Artie. In this film, she is the only member of Donkey and Dragon's family to not talk at all.
 * Julie Andrews as Queen Lillian, the queen of Far Far Away, Harold's wife, Fiona's mother, Shrek's mother-in-law, Fergus, Farkle and Felicia's grandmother. She is one of the four tetartagonists, along with Artie, Dragon and Kitty.
 * John Cleese as King Harold, the deceased king of Far Far Away, Lillian's husband, Fiona's father, Shrek's father-in-law, and Farkle, Fergus and Felicia's grandfather. He appear in several flashbacks throughout the film.
 * Justin Timberlake as Arthur "Artie" Pendragon, the current king of Far Far Away and Fiona's cousin. He falls in love with Snow Queen, and at the end, the two marries and she becomes Artie's queen. He is one of the four tetartagonists, along with Lillian, Dragon and Kitty.
 * Salma Hayek as Kitty Softpaws, Puss' wife, the Three Diablos' adoptive mother and becomes Fiona and Dragon's best friend through the film. She is one of the four tetartagonists, along with Artie, Lillian and Dragon.
 * Mae Whitman as Tinker Bell, a little fairy and Gingy's love interest who becomes his girlfriend at the end. Pinocchio enjoys playfully teasing Gingy for his crush on her throughout the movie.
 * Gavin Lewis, Aiden Lewandowski and Scarlett Estevez as Farkle, Fergus and Felicia, respectively, the ogre triplets, Shrek and Fiona's children and the Dronkeys' best friends, now teenagers and fully talking. Each has his own personality: Farkle is the playful jokester, has a big sense of humor, and enjoys making jokes, especially to tease his siblings, but he has a good heart and care for his family and friends, Fergus is hot-headed, serious, focused, but is also friendly, good-natured, kind-hearted and though he is easily frustrated by Farkle's antics he is far more patient and kinder to him than Felicia, who is grouchy, serious, arrogant, nervous, somewhat rebellious, short-tempered, easily irritated by Farkle, but she is still good-hearted, heroic, brave, selfless and a true leader as well.
 * Evan Peters, Tony Revolori, Julian Dennison, Brianna Hildebrand and Shiori Kutsuna as Bananas, Parfait, Peanut, Coco and Debbie, respectively, Donkey and Dragon's children, known as the Dronkeys, and Farkle, Fergus and Felicia's best friends. Bananas is brooding, headstrong and stubborn, yet still heroic, good-hearted, selfless and by far the bravest of the Dronkeys, Parfait is rude, making a mess of his own space and completely obsessed with playing video games, but still has a good heart, Peanut is talkative, cowardly and not very smart (much like his father), Coco is vain, narcissitic, bossy, stubborn and somewhat selfish, but still good-hearted, and Debbie being the smartest and very gentle, sweet and polite, yet a little clumsy.
 * Sadie Sandler, Tyler James Williams and Josh Gad as Perla, Gonzalo and Sir Tomato "Timmy" Montenegro the Third, respectively, also known as the Three Diablos, a trio of teenagers swordscats and Puss and Kitty's adoptive children. Perla is smart, independent, strong, confident and somewhat bossy, but good-hearted and a true leader, Gonzalo is short-tempered, grouchy, responsible, focused, mature, serious and easily angered, yet good-hearted and selfless, and Timmy is dim-witted, not very smart, polite and big-hearted.
 * Aaron Warner as Big Bad Wolf, a wolf and one of Shrek's allies and friends.
 * Christopher Knights as the Three Blind Mice, three of Shrek's allies and friends.
 * Tom Hardy as Hansel, one of the two deuteragonists and main new character along with his older sister, Gretel. He is now 22 years-old, and tells Shrek and his friends about how fairy tales never lived happily ever after, such as the Little Mermaid losing her prince to another bride, as dawn breaks she throws herself into the sea. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warmth of the sun; she has turned into a spirit, a daughter of the air. The other daughters of the air tell her she has become like them because she strove with all her heart to Gian an eternal soul. She will earn her own soul by doing good child she finds, one year would be taken from her sentence while for each bad child, she would cry and each tear would mean one day more and she will eventually rise up into the kingdom of God, and that Odette, the Swan Princess, before the prince joined her, and Rothbart lost his powers, and Hansel is left afraid that such fates maybe affect every fairy tale creature, so he teams up with Shrek and the gang to learn more about it.
 * Armanda Bynes as Gretel, one of the two deuteragonists and main new characters along with her younger brother, Hansel.
 * Bryan Cranston as Crooked Man Hagus, Hansel and Gretel's arch-nemesis, though he also develops a fierce and bitter rivalry with Shrek, as despite their short-lived rivalry Hagus' actions and opposition of Shrek makes him eventually become Shrek's second most hated and greatest enemy in the whole series (after Rumpelstiltskin). He also develops a strong rivalry with Pinocchio, as the puppet is the leader on the battle against him. Hagus is also the one who orchastrated the death of Hansel and Gretel's father, and was the one who Hansel is spying for evidence, and plans to stop him and Gretel, as well as other fairy tale creatures, from taking over Happily Ever After.
 * Patricia Arquette as The Snow Queen, a woman with magic powers that controls snow, wind and winter, and one of the two tritagonists, along with Detective. She is kind and playful, but is incredible insecure because she doesn't have full control of her powers, which makes her come off a little strict at times and initially reluctant to help Shrek and his friends out of fear of hurting innocent people. However, although she and Fiona did not get along well at first, they eventually develops a close friendship that gives Snow Queen enough confident to control her powers. She eventually gains full control of her powers and agrees to help Shrek. She is also obsessed with chocolate. She is Artie's love interest and, at the end, she marries him and becomes the new queen of Far Far Away. She is also rivals with her younger sister Princess Pea, though she doesn't hate her, unlike Pea.
 * Lochlyn Munro as Detective, a detective whose name is unknown because he hates his own name and wants to be referred to only by "Detective", and he is one of the two tritagonists, along with Snow Queen. He is steady, disciplined, serious and focused on his mission. Through the movie, he is tricked by Hagus into thinking Shrek and his friends are working for evil reasons. As a detective, he begins to investigate Pinocchio, the first and only of Shrek's friends he was able to interact directly with, which Pinochio found annoying. Pinocchio's personality confused Detective, as he didn't seem like a bad guy. He kept investigate him, and eventually learned that Shrek and his friends were actually trying to save the world, making Detective develops a great deal of grudge and hatred towards Hagus for tricking him. He then starts helping Shrek and his friends on their goal, though he doesn't exactly interacts directly with any of them outside of Pinocchio, the character whom Detective interacts the most through the film, and the two eventually forms a close friendship.
 * Michael Keaton as Nicholas, the secondary antagonist, the Prince whom the Little Mermaid fell in love with, who dumped her for a wife, and was nearly killed, but he was saved by Hagus and has since became his main henchman. He also develops a bitter and fierce rivalry with Puss in Boots, having a hand-to-hand fight with him four times through the movie. He also have two fights with the Three Diablos, though he doesn't seem to mind him.
 * Miley Cyrus as Princess Pea, the sarcastic and sob princess of Arabia, and the tertiary antagonist who is The Snow Queen's younger sister and rival, and eventually becomes Donkey and Fiona's arch-rival. She has a great obsession for jewels or even anything else that shines or glitters. She is also very dishonest and rude, manipulating people for her own good, making fun of others, mainly her older sister, and insulting Donkey and Fiona. She also hates her older sister The Snow Queen.
 * John Krasiniki as Lancelot, Artie's old school rival and the quaternary antagonist. He also develops a rivalry with Dragon and Kitty as well. However, he reforms in the end and joins the good side.
 * Mel Gibson as Chad, the quinary antagonist who develops a rivalry with Gingy, especially for Tinker Bell's love.
 * Scarlett Johansson as Debbie, Dragon's mother. She shelters her daughter, Fiona and Kitty briefly when they get lost from the group.
 * Katherine Langford as Gerda, Artie's mother. Throughout the movie, she develops a close friendship with Gingy, serving as a mother figure for him and giving advice, especially about his crush on Tinker Bell and his friendship with Pinocchio.
 * Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstiltskin, the initial, yet minor antagonist. He only appears in the beginning, where he is interrogated by Shrek, Donkey, Puss, Fiona, Pinocchio, Gingy, Dragon, Kitty, Lillian, Artie, Big Bad Wolf, the Three Little Pigs, the Three Blind Mice, the Ogre Triplets, the Dronkeys and the Three Diablos, where his left arm is cut off by Kitty and after the interrogation (that leads to nowhere actually) he is decapitated by Puss in Boots. Despite his death in the beginning, he and his actions are considerably important for the movie's plot.
 * Hugh Jackman as Uther Pendragon, Artie's father and Lillian's brother who in the end is revealed to be still alive. He explains he only abandoned Artie to save him and in the end, Artie forgives him.
 * Halle Bailey as The Little Mermaid.
 * Liz Callaway as Odette.
 * Sean Wright as Rothbart.
 * Jennifer Slauders as Fairy Godmother, who appears in flashbacks. In this film, she is confirmed to be the one who cursed Fiona (as the fans suspected), making her the bigger bad of the series.
 * Rupert Everett as Prince Charming, who appears in flashbacks.
 * John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad, who appears in flashbacks.

Production
Following the success of Shrek 2 in May 2004, Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed that the Shrek story had been outlined into five films almost from the beginning, "Befire the first one was finished we talked about what the whole story of Shrek is, and each of the chapters answers questions about the first movie and gives us and insight", Said Katzenberg, "Shrek 3 and 4 are going to reveal other unanswered questions and, finally, in the last chapter, we will understand how Shrek came to be in that swamp, when we meet him in the first movie".

After the release of Shrek the Third in 2007, Katzenberg announced that the Firth film would be released in 2013.

In May 2009, DreamWorks Animation announced that the fourth film's title would be Shrek Forever After, indicating that it would be the last in the Shrek series.

Later in 2009, that was confirmed by Bill Damaschke, head of creative production at DWA, with him saying: "All that was loved about Shrek in the first film is brought to the final film."

Josh Klausher, one of the writers of Shrek Forever After, explained in 2010 the script's evolution: "When I first came onto the project, it wasn't supposed to be the final chapter there were originally going to be 5 Shrek movies.

Then, about a year into the development, Jeffrey Katzenberg decided that the story that we'd come up with was the right way for Shrek's journey to end."

In a 2014 interview with Fox Business Network, Katzenberg that the fifth film still may be made.

"We like to let them have a little bit of time to rest", he said of the characters.

"But I think you can be confident that we'll have another chapter in the Shrek series. We're not finished, and more importantly, neither is he."

Then, following tge sale in 2016  of DreamWorks Animation to NBC Universal, DreamWorks announced sequels for both Shrek and Puss in Boots, with Shrek 5 being a direct sequel to Puss in Boots 2.

In November of the same year, it was confirmed that the film would be released in June 19, 2019.

In an interview with Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn, they revealed that the story would be written by Michael McCullers.

He said that characters who had little role in previous films will have great prominence and considerably bigger importance in the fifth film, like Gingy and Pinocchio.

He also confirmed that the fifth film will focus more on Shrek and Donkey's relationship, as it was too of Shrek and Fiona in the first four movies. He also confirmed a guest star of Kitty Softpaws in Shrek 5.

Release
Shrek 5 is released mundially on June 19, 2019.

Box office
The film grossed $859,743,026 in North America and $1,933,743,026 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $2,783,486,052, against a budget of $150 million.

Critical response
At the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on reviews, with an average rating 8,35/10.

Trivia

 * Unlike the previous Shrek movies, which are more focused on Shrek and Fiona's love relationship, this film focuses more on Shrek and Donkey's relationship, though it has a big focus on Shrek and Fiona's relationship as well.
 * Also, unlike the previous films, where Shrek was the only main protagonist, the fifth film has six main protagonists: Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, Puss, Gingy and Pinocchio.
 * Pinocchio and Gingy have considerable greater roles and prominence in the fifth film, even having their own storyline of goals, and in the fifth film, they are revealed to be best friends and their friendship is one of the main points in the film. Their prominence has improved so much that they appear in the movie's poster, and their voice actors having even be credited in the main cast. In fact, Pinocchio and Gingy are revealed to enjoy teasing each other jokingly and also friendly competing each other.
 * The Ogre Triplets and the Dronkeys also have considerably more prominence in the fifth film, and their friendship is also one of the main points explored. Dronkeys' mother, Dragon, also have considerably more prominence here than in previous installments.
 * The Triplets, Dronkeys and the Three Diablos are fully talking, just like in Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves, except for the triplets, as they made a silent cameo only at Puss' marriage in Puss 2.
 * (Gingy and Pinocchio TV series)
 * Like in Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves, Dronkeys and the Three Diablos are fully talking since they are now teenagers. The ogre triplets are teenagers and fully talking as well.
 * The Ogre Triplets already made a cameo as teenagers in Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves, where they attends Puss and Kitty's wedding, alongside their parents, but they didn't had even one line.
 * Unlike in Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves, where Puss and Donkey's rivalry was completely absent, their rivalry is back in the fifth Shrek movie, but now more friendly than in previous installments, being now more a play than a real rivalry between the two.