Shrek 2 is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. It is the sequel to 2001's Shrek and the second installment in the Shrek film franchise. The film stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, who reprise their respective voice roles of Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona.
Shrek 2 was the inevitable 2004 sequel to the.It follows ogres Shrek and Fiona , living their lavish lifestyle together in their swamp, with their old friend Donkey popping in every now and then. Everything is just fine. Until the time comes to. The new couple is summoned by Fiona's parents, rulers of the kingdom of Far Far Away, who wish to celebrate their daughter's marriage.Fiona's parents- King Harold and Queen Lillian - are shocked to learn that their daughter has been transformed permanently into her ogre form, and that she married an ogre to boot. Though they try to accept their daughter's wishes as best they can, a deal King Harold made with Fiona's Fairy Godmother a long time ago that Fiona would marry her son, Prince Charming , in order to give everyone involved their own happily ever afters.
With the patience of the Godmother wearing thin, a desperate Harold hires a hitman, Puss in Boots , to get rid of the ogre and repair this fairy tale gone wrong. Shrek 2 contains examples of:.: While Shrek and Fiona are making out on the beach, the tide sweeps her away, and Shrek ends up kissing a mermaid instead. Fiona proceeds to drag the mermaid off Shrek and throw her into the ocean, where she is eaten by sharks.
Shrek is, wisely, remorseful.: Shrek was fairly nimble for someone of in the first film, but in the factory escape scene of the second, he with an impressive one-handed cartwheel- performed whilst holding Donkey under his arm and dodging a rain of fire from.: Fiona's parents beg for her to stay after she announces her intention to leave Far Far Away.: A staple of the franchise, wherein all manners of fairy tale folk exist. Supporting characters include, and the Three Blind Mice, among a slew of background characters also from popular fairy tales.: Prince Charming wants to marry Fiona solely to become King.: Prince Charming. Being voiced by the openly gay doesn't help.
There is a huge in the scene where he talks to his mother about his reluctance to marry Fiona. Apparently, he is not interested in women at all.:, Donkey makes himself useful by making popping noises with his lips once he gets bored of asking.: 'Happily ever after'.: Donkey, relentlessly, during the trip to Far Far Away. Shrek:, Donkey? That's where we're going! Away.: It's implied that Prince Charming and Fiona were betrothed as a way of paying back Fairy Godmother for turning Harold into a human so he could marry Lillian.: The difference in animation quality between this movie and the previous one is like night and day. The backgrounds are prettier, the lighting and particle effects are way more dynamic, the characters are much more fluid and expressive, Shrek looks less rubbery, and the humans- especially Fiona- toe the uncanny valley far less.: The awesome rendition of 'Holding Out For a Hero' falls to this.
It's in G minor, not C minor as requested in-universe.: The fairy tale creatures play a much larger role in this movie, being the ones to break Shrek, Donkey and Puss out of prison and help them in stopping the Godmother's plan.: Mongo, the giant gingerbread man.: The Fairy Godmother threatening King Harold by talking about how she made his 'Happily Ever After' possible is staged to imply that she gave him a, which he then used on Queen Lillian. What she actually did was turn him from a frog into a human.: All things considered, are extremely competent and professional, considering they try to take down a with nothing but a barrel of warm milk they were On top of that, even when things look grim,.: The Fairy Godmother seems to be this, as she orders around her receptionist and does not give her employees dental insurance.: The Poison Apple, the seedy tavern where Harold goes to hire Puss in Boots. An Ugly Stepsister is the bartender, Captain Hook plays piano, and a sign says 'We Reserve the Right to Behead Anyone.' A later scene even has a sign advertising their Unhappy Hour.: Parodied, with a thrown in. zapped into a real boyPinocchio: I'm a real boy! singing I'm real, I'm real, I'm -zapped back into a puppetPinocchio:.: Shrek becomes extremely annoyed by Donkey's constantly asking 'are we there yet?'
, and tells him to stop, but eventually yells the phrase himself when Donkey pushes him over the edge.: Messing with Gingy's gumdrop buttons sets him off. This is a to the first film.:.
From Shrek early on in the film during the trip to Far Far Away. From Shrek and Gingy when Mongo falls into a moat. In slow motion, yet. Shrek after Charming kisses Fiona, as he thinks she will fall in love with him due to the love potion.
To Shrek's joy and relief, Fiona and reveals she never drank the love potion.: Parodied in the prison cell scene. Shrek: Do you still know the Muffin Man?Gingy: Well sure, he's down on Drury Lane. Why?Shrek: Because we're gonna need flour.:. The opening montage is quite sweet and funny. But during the parody of, Shrek unintentionally ends up frolicking with a of. Fiona's responseis to throw Ariel back into the sea, where she is devoured by sharks.; Shrek just shows remorse at the act of. Immediately following that scene, the newlyweds enjoy a mud bath.
Illuminated by the glow of several fairies trapped in jars. To add insult to injury, Shrek and Fiona playfully begin farting, much to the discomfort of the contained fairies.: On the way to Far Far Away, Shrek, bored of Donkey's antics, starts repeating everything he says to annoy him.: The defenders of Far Far Away's castle walls have a large supply of milk they can use to dump on invaders rather than the usual boiling oil. You'd think they were actually expecting to fight a gigantic gingerbread man, because that system doesn't really have much use otherwise.: Shrek attempts to crowd surf during the ending song sequence.
Knowing how heavy Shrek is, the crowd moves out of the way and he ends up crushing a Bichon Frise puppy.: Pairs up nicely with Puss' secret attack.: intentionally by Puss as his ultimate weapon, used to devastating effect - see.: After the climax, everyone starts dancing to Donkey and Puss in Boots singing 'Livin' La Vida Loca.' Isn't we supposed to be having a FIESTA?.: A variation. This is more like 'Married To What Daddy Hates', as it's clear at first that King Harold disapproves of having Shrek as a son-in-law.
He warms up to the idea by the end when he sees that Fiona is unhappy without Shrek. Since he just wants her to be happy, he accepts Shrek and refuses to go along with the Fairy Godmother's plan to wed Fiona to Charming.: Harold starts off the dinner scene giving Shrek the stink eye, and before long both Shrek and Harold are glaring daggers at each other. They don't break eye contact as they get up and each try to take the pig in the center of the table.: Puss in Boots is hired by the King to assassinate Shrek. Unlike his fairy tale counterpart, he does not rely on trickery, opting instead for an all-out attack- which is interrupted by a hairball, leaving Puss vulnerable.
Shrek and Donkey spare him, and the grateful Puss decides he owes the ogre a life debt. Although there is some tension from Donkey, who seems nervous that the cat is taking his place as ), the three eventually become close friends and allies.: Dragon only appears in the post-credits scene of the movie, to reveal her and Donkey's new babies, the. This demotion is rescinded in the.: After Puss pulls the Happily Ever After potion from its containment, he loses his grip, causing it to fly through the air. Just before it hits the ground, Donkey manages to catch it in his mouth. Shrek: Nice catch, Donkey!Puss:.: When Harold makes his deal with Fairy Godmother, he fails to consider that Fiona might not actually want to be with Prince Charming, and that he would love his child too much to force her to wed against her will. He even laughs at how absurd it was for him to think he could force someone to fall in love.: King Harold is visibly horrified at the possibility of having to give Fiona a love potion - it's basically portrayed as if she's asking him to give his daughter a date rape drug.: Harold and Lillian love Fiona very much. Lillian wants her daughter's happiness and at least tries to accept her marriage to Shrek.
Fairy Godmother appears this way to Charming but clearly isn't above using him for her own benefit.: The sings 'Holding Out For A Hero' for Fiona and Charming. Which becomes the background music for Shrek, Donkey, and Puss.: Shrek wasn't the 'hero' the Fairy Godmother's song was about. In fact, given her decidedly unheroic intentions, the choice of song itself can only be seen as deeply cynical.: When Fiona tells her parents that she is going to 'set things right', Harold takes it to mean she intends to leave Shrek.
Shrek: Look out, princess. Here comes the new me!pants fall downDonkey: Uh, first things first. We need to get you outta those clothes.Women: gasp in unison. When Fairy Godmother's receptionist, Jerome, exasperatedly presses the P.A. Button to answer to her meal request, he does it with his middle finger.
Considering how much he hates his job- they don't even have dental- this may very well be intentional. Pinocchio wearing ladies' underwear, per the many times in the last film. Kids think nothing of it other than that it's funny, but many adults are left questioning his reason in. Donkey, 'what do you think I am, some kind of pussy?' At one point, but gets cut off by Puss in Boots' entrance.
While Shrek and Fiona are enjoying themselves on their honeymoon, Shrek makes Donkey leave so they can have privacy. Pretty obvious what they were about to do. The the Fairy Godmother orders Harold to give Fiona visibly horrifies him, being portrayed akin to a date rape drug. She is asking him to drug his daughter so that she will not resist Charming's advances.: After Shrek, Fiona and Donkey are invited to Far Far Away. The even calls it a ' cut'.
Donkey: Look out, Shrek, he's got a piece!Shrek: It's a cat, Donkey.: Fairy Godmother, who has a magic shot deflected back at her by Harold taking the hit.: A lot of the humor of the series comes from putting a fairy tale twist on modern names and concepts, such as watching ' on a magic mirror, or eating a meal from Old MacDonald's with Baskin Robin Hood ice cream for dessert. (These are both actual places shown in the film.).: Puss in Boots cuts a circular hole with his claws to get the 'Happily Ever After' potion from the Fairy Godmother's storage room. The hole, however, turns out to be too small for the bottle to fit through, and Puss ends up pulling the bottle so hard that the glass pane shatters.: When Fiona's parents are discussing Fiona marrying an ogre. Lillian: This is Fiona's choice!Harold: Yes, but she was supposed to choose the prince we picked out for her!.: Harold samples a dish and calls it 'exquisite' before learning it is, in fact, dog food. He proceeds to wipe his hands in disgust, though doesn't have much of a reaction besides that.: On the beach during their honeymoon, Fiona is about to eat a chicken leg but proceeds to throw it away and jump Shrek.: Shrek and Fiona ride off into the sunset to their honeymoon during the first film's. The first time Shrek and Fiona are seen in the second film is during that honeymoon.: The in the potion factory shoot at Shrek, who is barely moving since he is stuck running against the movement of a conveyor belt. In spite of this, none of the guards land a hit.: Prince Charming uses one during his opening montage.: Puss in Boots, during the scene in the potion factory, complete with requisite hat-grab.: Prince Charming is bravest and most handsome in all the land, according to him at least.
He so firmly believes that he doesn't understand how Fiona could possibly choose Shrek over him. Granted, he does have the good looks to prove it.: Shrek ends up distraught upon realizing King Harold never actually wanted to bond with him, their agreed meeting place turning out to be a trap for hired hitman Puss in Boots to attempt to take him out. Donkey tries to comfort him, but his unsurprisingly fails.
Donkey: Aw, come on Shrek, don't feel bad.Shrek:.: Shrek and Fiona attempt to have a romantic moment when they arrive home, only to be interrupted by fanfare and an invitation to a wedding ball hosted by Fiona's parents. They are eventually successful at the wedding ball, cementing their love to the people of Far Far Away and the King and Queen.: During dinner, Lillian comments on how she thinks the swamp will be a fine place to raise the children, causing both Harold and Shrek to freak out. Shrek is horrified at the prospect of being a father, while Harold is disgusted with the thought of them having children.:. Shrek's desire to make Fiona happy drives him to a point where he is willing to let her go to be with. It also drives him to take a potion so that he and Fiona can live out their in more widely accepted human forms, rather than the ogre forms hated by most of society, even though he very much prefers being an ogre. Donkey: But you love being an ogre!Shrek: I know!
But I love Fiona more. In a parental instance, King Harold at first strongly opposes the marriage of Shrek and Fiona, and is under duress from the Fairy Godmother to fulfill his end of a deal wherein Charming and Fiona are wed. However, when he sees Fiona's love for Shrek and loathing of Charming, he goes back on the deal despite the danger to himself.
Lillian acts in a similar vein. Despite her initial shock at seeing her daughter's new form and her daughter's husband, she tries to accept the situation after seeing how happy Fiona is with Shrek. A mutual example comes during the climax.
When, Fiona turns down the kiss that would make it permanent. Shrek was willing to give up his proud ogrehood so his wife could be happy as a human; she in turn was unwilling to let Shrek make that sacrifice at the possible cost of his own happiness.: Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming.:. Shrek, as he was in the first film. King Harold, somewhat.
He vehemently opposes having an ogre in the family, and simultaneously wants what is best for Fiona; he inaccurately connects these dots to conclude that Shrek must be removed for Fiona to be happy. However, when he realizes Fiona is happy, and that he couldn't possibly back-stab his own daughter for what he thought was best for her- again- he gives them his blessing.: After Shrek takes a potion to make him and Fiona humans, he asks Fiona if it's what she wants. Her response is to tell him that she already loved him the way he was.: Mongo is a huge-sized gingerbread man created by The Muffin Man, Gingy and Shrek in order to succesfully storm the castle and stop the royal ball.: Done to an actual dog, though not literally. During Shrek and Fiona's second argument, the Bichon Frise given to Fiona by the Fairy Godmother won't stop barking in fright, so Shrek angrily roars at it.
Scared even more than before, the dog covers its eyes with its paws.: The of Gingy's giant, Mongo. The guards douse him in hot milk, which is bad enough, but when his arms get torn from his body, he helplessly falls down into the water and starts to dissolve. Thankfully, Mongo's disembodied arms grabbing the drawbridge allow Shrek and his pals to enter the castle.: The Happily Ever After potion indicates that, for Shrek to make its effects permanent, he must kiss Fiona by the midnight of its use. Shrek: Midnight! Why is it always midnight?.: Fiona giggles whenever things take a romantic turn between her and Shrek.: It turns out that the voice-over narration describing Charming's quest is done by Charming himself while on that quest.: Lillian defending Fiona's marriage, saying it was her choice and that love is unpredictable.: The Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming.: Noticeably much more than the previous film. The jokes are far tamer, relying less on, and there isnt much swearing. There are still plenty of jokes getting past the radar but not to the extent of the original.: Mongo the giant gingerbread man suffers from this when he helps Shrek and the fairy tale creatures storm the castle during the climax.
Mongo manages to pry the castle door open a crack, just enough for Shrek to slip through, but immediately afterwards the guards pour warm milk on him. His arms get soggy and break off, causing him to lose his balance and fall backwards into the moat. Being a giant cookie, he is too soggy to move at all anymore and is permanently defeated.: Shrek finds an old diary of Fiona's in which she drew doodles about Prince Charming.: Deconstructed.
They're depicted as a shallow act of desperation which, disturbingly, removes the element of choice from the person who they've been used on. Fiona's fairy godmother orders Harold to pour one into Fiona's drink so that she will fall in love with Prince Charming instead of Shrek. King Harold, reasonably, views this as a horrific breach of consent, but reluctantly taints some tea in order to fulfill his end of his deal. Turns out, Harold didn't give Fiona the potion after all—he deliberately gave Fiona the untainted cup of tea.: Despite being shocked, Lillian is fully supportive of Fiona's love for Shrek, defending her choice against Harold.: Prince Charming is a rather whiny and entitled fellow.: Shrek on the way to Far Far Away has a moment of this when he and Fiona get fed up with Donkey asking, and shuts him up by repeating what he says for five lines until Donkey gets fed up and shuts up. The Fairy Godmother has no qualms using potions, trickery, or even blackmail to get what she wants. She forces King Harold into a contract working against his daughter and her lover and abuses Shrek's insecurity regarding his relationship with Fiona to convince him that Fiona wants to be with Charming instead.: In the aforementioned scene where Fairy Godmother is convincing Shrek that Fiona really wants to be with Charming, Shrek looks like he's about to cry.: The movie is about Shrek meeting Fiona's parents, who aren't very happy about their daughter marrying an ogre. The Queen tries to be accepting of it, but the King is less open-minded.: Gingy, Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs (as well as Mongo, the giant gingerbread man, when he joins them) are this when they hear of the arrest of Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Far Far Away, as they not only rescue them but also help to storm the castle and get to Fiona.
The Three Blind Mice are with them, and try to help, but fail miserably because they can't see;.: At the end, Fairy Godmother shoots a spell at Shrek. King Harold jumps in the way, and his armor returns the spell to its sender, though it does not protect Harold against the magic.: In Fiona's diary, she's seen writing her name 'Mrs. Fiona Charming' over and over again, much to Shrek's horror.: After being threatened by the Fairy Godmother, Harold goes to the Poison Apple tavern and hires a hitman to dispose of Shrek.: Harold, after his.
First, he switches Fiona's potion-tainted teacup with his own, to prevent her from being spellbound as Fairy Godmother demanded she be. Then, he protects Shrek from Fairy Godmother by when she tries to destroy Shrek with a magic blast, turning Harold back into a frog but defeating Fairy Godmother when the blast is sent back at her. Finally, by accepting Shrek into the family and giving his blessing to Shrek and Fiona's marriage.: Fairy Godmother has a business card which is itself a means of direct communication.: King Harold has a moment after Fiona decides to leave, when she's had enough of his prejudice. He realizes how selfish he's been by failing to take Fiona's feelings into proper consideration. Donkey: How about 'Shrek 2. The REAL Movie?!' Everyone: No!Donkey: How about 'Shrek 2: Donkey Reloaded?'
Everyone: NO!!Shrek: How about this? 'Shrek 2: Oh, there he is, cut from the movie because HE TALKS TOO MUCH!' Why dont you guys go ahead.
Ill park the car. Fiona, after she's had enough of her parents' prejudice.
She says that introducing them to Shrek was a mistake, and decides to find him and leave, intending to cut her parents out of her life.: Harold goes back on his promise to the Fairy Godmother after seeing Fiona has no interest in being with anyone else but Shrek.: Shrek, unable to sleep, walks around Fiona's childhood room while she's asleep and stumbles upon her childhood diary in a music box. There, he reads of her childhood fantasy of being rescued by and becoming 'Mrs. Fiona Charming'. This adds to Shrek's guilt over whether he's making Fiona happy. King Harold: S-Sorry. I hope I'm not interrupting anything.Shrek: No, no! I was just reading a.
A scary book.: It's clear that neither Shrek nor Fiona have eyes for anyone else. After Shrek becomes handsome from the Happily Ever After potion, a gaggle of girls start throwing themselves at him. He informs them that he already has a true love. When Prince Charming poses as Shrek, with a very different personality, Fiona has no interest in him and wants Shrek the way he originally was.: The character name Mongo raises eyebrows in Scotland, where the word is an extremely offensive pejorative term for someone who is mentally handicapped.: Prince Charming does this in the opening sequence, followed by an.: Numerous, as expected of a Shrek movie:. When arriving in Far Far Away, Donkey says, 'Swimming pools, movie stars!' A reference to opening theme of. To when Puss mutters into his milk 'I hate Mondays.'
. During Shrek and Fiona's honeymoon, they receive a. Later that day, when Fiona removes something covering Shrek's mouth to kiss him while he is hanging from a tree, one is reminded of a similar kiss had with his lover. When Shrek is fleeing on Donkey into the forest in a segment of, there is a helicopter shot of the sequence and a voice is heard saying 'We've got a white bronco headed east into the forest.
Requesting backup.' This is a direct reference to the infamous 1994 California highway chase where cops were chasing OJ Simpson in a white Ford Bronco, a notorious low-speed chase. The montage's camerawork and overall appearance resembles the appearance of COPS.
When Shrek and Fiona are kissing on the beach, a wave washes over them and swaps Fiona with a. Fiona promptly tosses her way out to sea, where she is attacked by a shark. Keeling over from the Happily Ever After potion, Donkey calls out '.
As Mongo perishes, defeated by the knights of Far Far Away, he tells Gingy to 'be good'. The same final words are spoken in, when one of the astronauts sent to destroy a comet inbound for Earth says his goodbyes to his family. He also lets out a when the defenders hit him in the. When Shrek, Donkey, and Puss are hastily escaping the potion room, Puss. A multitude of shout-outs to different songs, just like in the first film.: Charming attempts to invoke this with Fiona when he's pretending to be Shrek, by calling her 'muffin cake'. However, he only makes Fiona more repulsed by him, nearly causing her to run away from the ball.: Fairy Godmother does this at one point.: Fairy Godmother forces Harold to slip Fiona a love potion so she'll fall in love with Charming. Harold attempts to give Fiona the potion with a cup of tea.
He then has a pang of conscience after Fiona expresses her love for Shrek and her terrible unhappiness with Charming, driving him to switch the cup for the untainted cup last minute.: When Shrek and Fiona get out of the carriage, everyone who sees them falls silent. It becomes so quiet, all that can be heard is a baby crying in the distance.: From their first scene together, one can see the strong resemblance between Fiona and her mother, Lillian. Their personalities are also quite aligned, as evident in the dinner scene.:. Shrek does this to Donkey on the journey to Far Far Away when he starts making annoying popping noises. Harold: It's not my fault, Prince Charming didn't get there in time!Fairy Godmother: STOP THE CAR!!!!!her flying carriage came to a halt. At a.: The Fairy Godmother, almost literally.
She gets hit by, feels herself apparently unharmed, grins evilly as she prepares to blast Shrek again, then dies.: When Fairy Godmother aims to blast Shrek with a magic bolt, King Harold jumps in front of him, causing it to bounce off his armour and return to her.: When Shrek faints after taking the Happily Ever After potion, he lands on Puss, who loudly yowls.: During Far Far Away Idol Prince Charming sings 'I'm So Sexy' in a matter so bad he is ejected from the stage. Simon remarks 'That was the Artist Formerly Known as Prince Charming!' .: Caused by Fairy Godmother, who gets Prince Charming to claim he is Shrek, as to fool Fiona.: The look on Shrek's face implies this is what he's thinking as they are about to reach their destination, greeted by a large crowd and sees Fiona's parents waiting by the door.
Also Harold as they are about to greet their daughter and her husband, not at all what they expected them to be.: The fate of the in the opening sequence is to be eaten by sharks.: In a non-video game example, Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona have to travel to the Kingdom of Far, FAR Away, which apparently takes an exceedingly long time. Yet when Shrek is arrested after stealing the Happily Ever After Potion, his whole gang back at the swamp- where darkness is already falling- witness this on television and get to Far Far Away that same evening, well before midnight.: As her diary revealed, Fiona had dreamed her whole childhood of being rescued by a handsome prince and becoming 'Mrs. Fiona Charming'. However, she ended up falling in love with Shrek, an ogre who was a far cry from this. When she is placed with the supposed man of her dreams, Prince Charming, she does not fall in love with Charming and wants to be with Shrek again. Fiona had completely discarded her childhood fantasies and had no issue with doing so, finding everything she wants in Shrek. Harold pulls a when he realizes this, accepting Shrek into the family and attempting to go back on his promise with Fairy Godmother.: With a mix of, during the scene where Shrek and Fiona first arrive in Far Far Away, both them and Fiona's parents bicker within their respective pairs as they walk to greet each other, with each line cutting out to be finished by other side, humorously with the finished line carrying the exact opposite connotation of its predecessor.: Pinocchio.
Donkey suggests that he should say he's wearing ladies' underwear, but when Pinocchio says it, nothing happens. When they ask him whether he's actually wearing ladies' underwear, he vehemently deines it, which does make his nose grow.: Puss swears this to Shrek in gratitude for sparing his life after the failed assassination attempt.
Donkey shows this to Shrek (even if partially to outshine Puss due to his jealousy) by trying the Happily Ever After potion before Shrek in case it's dangerous. Shrek and Fiona also prove to have this between each other as both are willing to go to the ends of the earth for each other. In the ensuing turmoil that comes when Fiona's parents object to Shrek, Fiona choses to take his side over her parents, even willing to completely cut them out of her life, much to their horror.: The Muffin Man is mentioned by Gingy in one scene of the first movie. He makes his first appearance in this movie.: After Charming forcibly kisses Fiona (believing she took the love potion) Fiona then pretends to caress his face, and then knocks him out with a head butt.
She then steps over him and reunites with the man she really loves.: Given how everyone else reacts when they see Shrek and Fiona- fleeing in terror, attacking in terror, or staring in - the heralds who deliver them the invitation at the beginning are remarkably unfazed by the sight of their princess-turned-ogre and her similarly-formed husband.: Fairy Godmother, when she discovers that Harold did not give Fiona the potion. She sees Harold stand up to her, realizing her chances of putting her son on the throne are gone. She attempts to take out her anger on Shrek and Fiona, only for Harold to jump in the way and send the magic blast back at her.: The Fairy Godmother is the and intends for her son, to marry Princess Fiona and become king so that she can rule the Land of Far-Far-Away with him as her stooge. Lillian: You wouldn't have had anything to do with this? Would you, Harold?.: Shrek has the seven dwarves make a wedding ring for Fiona. Shrek picks up the ring while it's still hot and accidentally tosses it into the air. Fiona manages to catch on her finger which glows with the words 'I love you'.: Donkey becomes a stallion after drinking the Happily Ever After potion.
It doesn't stick.: Puss in Boots holds off a pack of guards as Shrek rushes to stop the Fairy Godmother's evil plot, a payment of his life debt. It's not especially difficult for him, as a deceptively skilled swords-cat.
Shrek (Mike Myers) has rescued Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), got married, and now is time to meet the parents. Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and King Harold (John Cleese) find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. It's not just the family who are unhappy. Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) returns from a failed attempt at rescuing Fiona, and works alongside his mother, the Fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders), to try and find a way to get Shrek away from Fiona. Quotes first lines:Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, the king and queen were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, and throughout the land everyone was happy, until the sun went down, and they saw that their daughter was cursed with a frightful enchantment that took hold each and every night.
Desperate, they sought the help of a fairy godmother, who had them lock the young princess away in a tower, there to await the kiss of the handsome Prince Charming. It was he who would chance the.». Shrek the Ogre, Pincess Fiona, and Donkey are back in the sequel to the modern day fairy tale classic in this lesser, but still magical sequel. Shrek and Fiona are returning from their honeymoon, only to find a dejected Donkey who broke things off with Dragon apparently and the King's noblemen inviting them to Fiona's parents castle in Faf Far Away. Naturally the anti-social Shrek wants nothing to do with the invitation, but gives in to Fiona and Donkey's insistence. Needless to say the King is quite upset to find his daughter an Ogre and married to Shrek.
Add the dastardly vain Prince Charming, a not so good Fairy Godmother and the delightful new addition of Antonio Banderas as Puss In Boots, and you get a fun, but ultimately unneeded sequel that treads to closely to the first plot-wise. However children will still love it. Parents will still chuckle every now and then, and it's still one of the better sequel's that I've seen.
My Grade: B- Where i saw it: Cinemax on Demand (available till September 9th, 2005).
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