Parents guide

A naked witch baby is seen. Buttocks are visible.

The Gingerbread Man is forced to fight animal crackers for entertainment and breaks them into pieces with a lollipop.

Repeated comical violence including fighting and imprisonment. The film's climactic battle could be viewed as intense and/or excessive by some young viewers.

Donkey says "hell no" when asked to use his tongue to help clean Puss.

After Shrek and Donkey escape Rumple's castle, Donkey runs away from the former and screams that he is being "ass-napped". The word is used appropriately to describe Donkey.

At his triplet's birthday party, Shrek is under pressure too many times, and has an emotional outburst doing his famous "Shrek" roar.

After Shrek is done scaring the villagers, he discovers wanted posters for Fiona in the forest. He quickly goes from being happy to being worried as he senses that something is wrong. This scene is very ominous and is followed by Shrek discovering his swamp burned down and his home abandoned/deserted.

Rumplestiltskin waves around a glass of water subtly threatening to melt witches with it if they don't tell him a good plan to stop Shrek from getting a curse-breaking true love's kiss. When one witch suggests getting a bounty hunter, Rumpel gets excited and accidentally melts her with water, then shrugs it off.

In the beginning of the movie, Shrek gets stressed by things/people taunting him and roars load and smashes a cake in one scene out of frustration/anger.

Four ogres are seen being treated as slaves in one scene.

For the first time in the entire series, Shrek cries.

None/Moderate for neurodivergent viewers.

The complete disappearance of Fiona's parents and the partial disappearance of Shrek may upset and confuse younger viewers.

The battle scene at the end is quite intense.