I was never particularly overwhelmed by either of the first movies in this series, and to me this felt mostly like just as unobjectionable a time-passer – plenty of big laughs, not much to tie them all together. But as I warmed back to this world – one I’ve never really liked as much as those dreamed up by Disney, Pixar, even Walden Media – I have to say, I found myself enjoying this the most by far out of all the movies to date; and by the end, I was even looking forward to the next one for once.

I did find myself wondering how entertained younger kids would be by it though – it seemed too often that they’ve forgotten who the main audience is. Am I the only person who was more than a little disturbed by the oh-so-hilarious death scene of Fiona’s father followed by a funeral scene accompanied by the song “Live and Let Die”? I don’t know, I found that whole scene very misguided. I mean, I can understand trying to see the light side of such things, but this just struck me like a mockery, and all I could imagine was some poor kid bursting into laughter at a grandparent or somebody’s hospital bed because his or her death throes so much resemble the cute little fwoggy. I don’t know, even as I type that I know how stupid it sounds, but it just struck me as really strange and unsettling, and few things do so I’m mentioning it. Luckily, the movie gets much better after that. I loved the whole college sequence (“How can you be a reciever of the wedgies, when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”)