AP reports the horrible news:

Galvanized by the success of "Shrek the Third," Jeffrey Katzenberg says the tale of the green ogre who married a princess will continue.

"More Shreks are coming!"producer Katzenberg . . . said at a news conference in Berlin on Friday.

Not appalled yet? Then consider this:

As for the plot of the fourth installment of the "Shrek" movie franchise, Katzenberg would only reveal that Shrek will have to come to terms with something difficult in his past.

Translation: More psychobabble destroying a perfectly good comic fairy tale.

The first Shrek was fun and had some good ideas, but the sequels have been undermined by this absurd ambition to tart up the series with increasing doses of therapeutic "love thyself" nonsense. I cannot imagine things getting better on the basis of this capsule description of the fourth Shrek movie.