Shrek 2 (Widescreen Edition)
by Andrew Adamson
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Actor: Antonio Banderas, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Julie Andrews, Mike MyersDirector: Andrew Adamson
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Animated
DVD Reviews of Shrek 2 (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Just as good as the first
Summary: 5 Stars
Shrek 2 is one hour and thirty-three minutes and was released on May 19, 2004. Shrek 2 picks up where Shrek left off. In the opening scene Prince Charming is on his way to rescue Princess Fiona. When he gets to the abandon castle the Big Bad Wolf tells him that Shrek and Fiona are on their honeymoon. When the two get back to the Swamp, Donkey is there to greet them. Also there to greet them is a royal messenger from Far Far Away. Fiona parents request that they come to Far Far Away so her father (King Harold) can give the two his royal blessing. Shrek is originally against the idea. In the end, Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey are off to Far Far Away. When the trio arrives at the castle of Fiona's parents, King Harold and Queen Lillian (her parents) are shocked to see their daughter as an ogre and not to have married Prince Charming, but Shrek instead. Queen Lillian goes out of her way to greet the two. King Harold on the other hand wants nothing to do with Shrek. That night King Harold heads to the Poison Apple and hires an ogre killer. When King Harold comes back to the castle he tells Shrek that he is sorry and asks him to go on a hunt with him the next day as a kind of get together. Actually this is a plot to kill Shrek. The next day Shrek and Donkey are in the woods looking for the giant old oak tree. While looking for that tree they are attacked by Puss In Boots-the ogre killer. However, Puss In Boots fails in his duty and Shrek eventually spares the cat life. Puss In Boots is indebted to Shrek and promise to stand by him until he can repay his dept. Shrek, Donkey, and Puss In Boots head over to the Fairy Godmother house to get a potion to make Fiona love him. When Fairy Godmother tells Shrek that ogres do not live happily ever after, Shrek decides to steal a potion. In the potion room he winds up stealing the potion Happily Ever After. Shrek and Donkey drink the potion and at first does nothing to them. The next day Donkey wakes up as a beautiful white stallion and Shrek a handsome human man. Also Fiona is turned back into her beautiful self. When Fairy Godmother learns of the theft and the potion that was stolen, she hatches a plan for her son (Prince Charming) to impersonate Shrek; since Fiona has not seen Shrek in his human form yet. Shrek arrives back at the castle to show Fiona his human form; instead Fairy Godmother traps him in a room and convinces him to do what is best for Fiona. Shrek looking out the window and seeing Fiona accepting Prince Charming (Fiona thinking Prince Charming is Shrek) reluctantly agrees and leave the castle. The trio is now at the Poison Apple drowning themselves in their tears when a stranger walks in the pub. Shrek seeing it to be King Harold seeks outside to find out what is going on. King Harold is there to ask the Fairy Godmother to call off the wedding. Fairy Godmother wants nothing to do with it and let him know that her son will marry the princess. When the trio hears that Prince Charming is the son of the Fairy Godmother the head off the tell Fiona the truth, but are instead capture and throw in a dungeon. The Big Bad Wolf, Gingy, Pinocchio, and the rest of the gang are watching this on the news and head out to rescue their friends. Once Donkey, Puss In Boots, and Shrek are free the gang head over the Muffin Man so they can bake him a giant ginger bread man named Mongo. The group head over to the castle and Mongo is able to get Shrek inside before he is killed. Shrek lowers the drawbridge and the gang head inside to stop the fateful kiss between Prince Charming and Princess Fiona. They group is partially successful in getting the magic wand away from the Fairy Godmother before her son is able to retrieve it and get it back to her. Fairy Godmother who is angry and is about to use her wand to kill Shrek, but King Harold who is wearing a armor breastplate, jumps in between Shrek and the wand and the magic bounces off the armor and hits the Fairy Godmother and killing her instantly. Fiona realizing the sacrifice that Shrek is willing to make decides not to kiss her true love a midnight and the both revert back to being ogres and Donkey is no longer a stallion. In a side note Mrs. Dragon gave birth to six mutated kids. I am giving Shrek 2 an AAAAA+++++.
1. Far Far Away
2. Special Features
A) The Tech of Shrek 2
B) Meet the Cast
C) Meet Puss In Boots
D) The Music of Shrek 2
E) Technical Goofs
F) Previews
G) Cast
H) Film Makers
I) Filmmakers Commentaries
3. New from DreamWorks
4. Scene Index
5. Play Movie
6. Audio Options
7. Help
8. DreamWorks Kids
A) Far Far Away Idol
B) Shrek's Music Room
C) Favorite Scenes
D) Gingy's House of Games
E) Shrek 2 Web Links
F) Pintables
9. Subtitles
DVD Review: video
Summary: 4 Stars
Very entertaining for my grand daughter. She loves Shrek and it is a great movie for small children. She has all three Shrek movies.DVD Review: Don't go changing, to try and please me ...
Summary: 3 Stars
Unfortunately, this is where the series took a really negative turn for the worse. The writers seemed to not be aware of what made the previous film in this series work and concentrated on all the wrong aspects. Bluntly, they tried hard to make all the humor adult friendly isntead of kid-friendly, removing most of the juvenile and childish aspects which really made Shrek endearing to a lot of us.
The original Shrek is easily the best in the series and for a variety of reasons that are pretty clear to most of the viewers. Unfortunately, the things that we can see wrong with the subsequent adventures seem not to be so apparent to the people behind the magic curtain. They seemed to focus on the slight things that might've been problematic in the first film and then magnify them to the Nth degree for the following episodes trying to propel the franchise on its faults.
The best thing about Shrek was that even a two-year old could sit and watch the movie in rapt attention without drifting away. Shrek has enough light-hearted childishness to propel it along, forcing the viewer to smile repeatedly. The fart jokes work, the tongue-in-cheek anachronistic references make sense and give the film a sense of backward-nostalgic appeal.
Again, very unfortunately, nothing seems to work and everything seems to be a clich?. Trying to make light of celebrity allure and the Hollywood life, the film deviates too far from the original concept and comes up as a boring, overwrought piece of nonsense, bloated with 'actual celebrities' that seem either miscast or just tired. If you've seen the film then you know exactly who I'm speaking of, there's more than enough to choose from.
The original Shrek had a solid formula within the writing that never took itself too serious. It also seemed that they knew way back in 2001, that they were making a movie to compete with Pixar's 'Monster's, Inc', which was released around the same time. They also knew that they were targeting their audience somewhere between 3 and 13, but had hoped to make it appealing enough for adults.
Shrek 2 clearly seems to be geared and targeted towards an older crowd, probably early 20's. That would make sense, seeing that those in their early twenties are the most obsessed with Hollywood in these last few years. Someone must've forgot to target this film during the writing stage to their original audience. My two year old gets bored of this quickly, wanders away from viewing it and pays it no mind at all, unlike the original -- which he loves.
DVD Review: Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved the comedy aspect of this film. The music was also good, just like the first. This, like the first Shrek, will go down in history as one of the best animated films in history. DVD Review: This sequel isn't sweet.
Summary: 2 Stars
Shrek 2 was such a disappointment. I loved Shrek and waited anxiously to see the sequel but I just couldn't get into this one at all. It's pretty slow and choppy, the plot this time around is pretty lame. I am sure Shrek the Third is dumb as well, keep away from this stinker!
Description of Shrek 2 (Widescreen Edition)
Happily ever after never seemed so far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into another hilariously twisted adventure for shrek & fiona. With the help of his faithful donkey shrek takes on a potion-brewing fairy godmother the pompous prince charming & the famed ogre-killer puss in boots. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: Mike Myers Cameron Diaz Run time: 92 minutes Rating: PgThe lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's parents--which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: The parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother wants her son Prince Charming to win Fiona, and a feline assassin is hired to get Shrek out of the way. The computer animation is more detailed than ever, but it's the acting that make the comedy work--in addition to the return of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz, Shrek 2 features the flexible voices of Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins), John Cleese (Monty Python's Flying Circus), Antonio Banderas (Desperado), and Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) as the gleefully wicked fairy godmother. --Bret Fetzer
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