SHREK, 50s, softer around the middle, with reading glasses and a fishing rod, sits on his outhouse-turned-patio.

That’s the problem, baby! You’re on your third oatmeal . You used to eat knights for breakfast! But now? Now you’re one bad back away from ordering a walking stick from the QVC catalog for ogres.

(to a passing frog) You got mail? No. I got nothing . Not even a dragon scale in my mud bath anymore.

PUSS IN BOOTS (grey-muzzled, wearing a tiny eye patch over one eye now, still dramatic) leaps onto the cart.

What?

But what if I’m too old for quests?

Twenty years after trading his swamp for peace and quiet, a restless and empty-nesting Shrek is dragged by Donkey on a chaotic road trip across the outer realms of Far Far Away to find a legendary “Funk-El” flower — only to discover that the real villain isn’t a lord or a fairy-tale monster, but middle-aged irrelevance itself.

You’ve been reorganizing the mud by texture. You miss being an ogre. Not the fighting — the feeling. Go find your flower. I’ll hold down the swamp.

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Danielle Holke is a long-time knitter, first taught by her beloved grandmother as a young girl growing up in Canada. In 2008 she launched KnitHacker, a lively blog and knitting community which has since grown to be a popular presence in contemporary knitting culture, reaching more than a million readers each year. As a marketing professional, Danielle advises and works with a motley squad of artists, yarn bombers, film makers, pattern designers, yarn companies and more. Learn more about her latest book, Knits & Pieces: A Knitting Miscellany.

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