Shrek 2 Review

Shrek 2

Release Date: 17th June 2004 - Australia


Production Companies
DreamWorks Pictures (presents)
Pacific Data Images (PDI)
DreamWorks Animation

Distribution
20th Century Fox Australia


Genre: Animation/Family/

Fantasy/Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 minutes


Budget: $150,000,000

Box Office Gross: $932,399,558 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary

Shrek and Fiona are

enjoying their honeymoon

when they receive an

invitation from Fiona's

parents, the King and Queen

of Far, Far Away. The

newlyweds, accompanied

by Donkey, leave to meet

her parents, who happily

anticipate their homecoming.

When Shrek and Fiona arrive as the citizens set to greet them, no one believes them for their sight that their little girl has changed and that their new son-in-law is an ogre.

Little did Shrek and Fiona know that their marriage had thwarted her father's plans for her future, not to mention his own. Now the King must turn to the Fairy Godmother and her son Prince Charming in a plot to separate Shrek and Fiona and hire a pussy cat assassin named Puss in Boots to kill Shrek.

Voice Cast
Mike Myers - Shrek
Eddie Murphy - Donkey
Cameron Diaz - Princess Fiona
Antonio Banderas - Puss in Boots
John Cleese - King Harold
Julie Andrews - Queen Lillian
Rupert Everett - Prince Charming
Jennifer Saunders - The
Fairy Godmother
Aron Warner - Big Bad Wolf
Cody Cameron - The Three
Little Pigs/Pinocchio
Larry King - The Ugly Stepsister (Cameo)
Conrad Vernon - The

Gingerbread Man/Cedric/

Announcer/Muffin Man/

Mongo

Chris Miller - Magic Mirror

Mark Moseley - Dresser

Kelly Cooney - Fast Food Clerk

Kelly Asbury - Page/Elf/

Nobleman/Nobleman's Son

Andrew Adamson - Captain of the Guards

Joan Rivers - Red Carpet Announcer (Cameo)

Crew
Story/Screenplay/Writer: Song "Fairy Godmother

Song"/Director - Andrew Adamson

Additional Dialogue/Director - Conrad Vernon

Director - Kelly Asbury

Based Upon the Book "Shrek" - William Steig

Based on Characters (Uncredited)/

Creative Consultants - Ted Elliott and

Terry Rossio

Based on Characters - Roger S.H. Schulman (Uncredited)

Screenplay - Joe Stillman,

J. David Stern and David M. Weiss

Additional Dialogue/Story Artists -

Cody Cameron, Walt Dohrn and

David P. Smith

Additional Dialogue/Head of Story/

ADR Group - Chris Miller
Executive Producer - Jeffrey Katzenberg

Producers - David Lipman,

Aron Warner and John H. Williams

Production Designer - Guillaume Aretos
Art Director - Steve Pilcher

Character Designer - Tom Hestor

Additional Character Designer - Chris Aguirre

Costume Designer - Isis Mussenden

Story Consultants - Mike de Seve

and Ted Tally

Senior Production Manager - Denise Nolan Cascino

Supervising Animators - James Baxter,
Tim Cheung and Raman Hui

Directing Animators - Chung Chan,

Paul Chung, Donnachada Daly,

Anthony Hodgson and Trey Thomas

Co-Supervising Character Technical Directors -

Lawrence D. Cutler and Lucia Modesto

Layout Supervisor - Bob Whitehill

Head of Effects - Arnauld Lamorlette

Visual Effects Supervisor - Ken Bielenberg

Co-Visual Effects Supervisor - Philippe Gluckman

Sequence Supervisors: Lighting - Michael Day,

Susan Hayden, Jin Liou, Janet Rentel and

Milton E. Rodriguez-Rios

Editors - Michael Andrews and

Sim Evan-Jones

Supervising Sound Editor - Dennis Leonard

Supervising Sound Editor (Uncredited)/

Sound Designer - Randy Thom

Additional Sound Design - David C. Hughes

Assistant Sound Designer - Will Files

Sound Effects Editors - Andre Fenley,

J.R. Grubbs and Scott Guttieau

Sound Mixers - Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer

Foley Artists - Ellen Heuer,

Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance

Music/Original Themes - Harry Gregson-Williams

Original Themes - John Powell

Music Supervisor - Chris Douridas

Score Mixer - Alan Meyerson

Awards

2005 Academy Awards
Best Original Song "Accidentally in Love" -

Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham,

Jim Bogios, David Immergluck,
Matthew Mulley, David Bryson and Dan Vickrey

(Nominated)
Best Animated Feature - Andrew Adamson

(Nominated)

Review

Under the circumstances of joy, I do not find SHREK 2 the worst sequel movie. It's merely an animated sequel with a mature plot that sometimes feels like an adult romantic comedy broadened with moral lessons for children. This feature contains enjoyable references to pop culture, satirical humour and the return of the first movie's three cast members, Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy. Zorro bravado Antonio Banderas lends his purring voice as the puss in boots, though I couldn't agree that this pussycat got dragged here for this laughable and charming showcase.

The sequel SHREK 2 is refreshing, fun-filled and fast-paced, fracturing more fairy tales with new, hilarious and borrowed characters. I decreed that it's the only one that doesn't jump into mediocrity, unlike the following entries, and it's a good movie.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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