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Shrek 2
File:Shrek2 poster.jpg
A theatrical movie poster of Shrek 2.
Directed byAndrew Adamson
Kelly Asbury
Conrad Vernon
Written by-Book-
  William Steig
-Story-
  Andrew Adamson
-Screenplay-
  Andrew Adamson
  Joe Stillman
  J. David Stem
  David N. Weiss
StarringMike Myers
Eddie Murphy
Cameron Diaz
Antonio Banderas
Rupert Everett
John Cleese
Jennifer Saunders
Edited byMichael Andrews
Sim Evan-Jones
Music byHarry Gregson-Williams
Distributed by-USA-
  DreamWorks SKG
-non USA-
  UIP
Release dates
May 19, 2004
Running time
92 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget-Production-
  $75 million USD
-Marketing-
  $50 million USD
Box officeDomestic: $441,226,247
Worldwide: $920,665,658

Shrek 2 is the 2004 sequel to the 2001 computer-animated DreamWorks Pictures movie Shrek that was released in the United States on May 19, 2004. In April 2004, the film was selected for competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. There are more Shrek movies to follow (see Shrek the Third), according to Jeffrey Katzenberg: "We didn't have the guts to tell anybody when we started out, [but] we have two more chapters to tell. Not unlike Peter Jackson did with The Lord of the Rings. The difference is they did have the guts to make all three of them 'back-to-back-to-back'" [1]. Shrek 2 is also the one of the first 3 feature length movies to get the Game Boy Advance Video treatment.

Shrek 2 scored the fourth-largest three-day opening weekend in US history [2], as well as the largest opening for an animated movie ever [3]. As of 2006, it is the 3rd highest box office grossing film of all time in the United States [4]. Worldwide, it is the seventh highest grossing film [5]. It went on to be the most successful film in 2004 [6]. The associated soundtrack reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200.

Shrek 2 was originally scheduled for release on June 18, 2004, but instead, it opened on May 19, 2004.

At 4,163 theaters, the film's opening weekend theater count is the largest ever [7].

Plot

Template:Spoiler Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who had fallen under a curse that transformed her into a monster every night at sundown. Her fairy godmother told her parents to lock her in a tower guarded by a dragon until her true love could rescue her and break her from the spell with his kiss. A man in armor, Prince Charming (also the narrator) is shown racing to the castle through adverse conditions, climbing to the Princess’ room only to find the Big Bad Wolf lounging in her bed and reading a magazine. The Wolf bluntly tells Charming that the Princess Fiona is on her honeymoon.

Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find Donkey in Shrek’s house, where they learn he and Dragon are having relationship problems so Donkey has moved out. Shrek disagrees, and as Donkey is thrown out heralds from the kingdom of Far Far Away arrive to invite the Princess Fiona and Shrek to receive the blessing of her royal parents. Shrek balks and claims that her parents aren’t likely to accept him, but after a brief but heated argument the couple and Donkey depart for Far Far Away.

King Harold (Fiona’s father) confirms Shrek’s fears and becomes extremely upset when he discovers the truth about his daughter’s new husband. As Harold and wife Lillian settle down to go to sleep after a dinner argument, Fiona returns crying to her room. There her Fairy Godmother appears, and after being somewhat surprised by Fiona’s ogre-like appearance, promises to make everything better. Shrek then appears and Godmother realizes what has happened, causing her to leave in something of a hurry.

Shortly thereafter, Harold is visited by the Fairy Godmother. She is angry with Harold for ‘allowing’ the marriage to take place (despite having no control over it), and it is revealed that her son, Prince Charming, was supposed to marry Fiona as part of some deal between the Fairy Godmother and King Harold. Fairy Godmother subtly suggest that Harold have Shrek killed, and Harold heads to an unsavory pub to hire a hitman.

Harold tricks Shrek to meet him in the woods the following day, claiming he wishes to get a better start on their relationship. There Shrek and Donkey are jumped by the King’s assassin, Puss in Boots. After Shrek foils Puss’ attack but does not attack him in return, Puss swears his life to Shrek in thanks for Shrek sparing it. Taking an idea from Fairy Godmother’s business card (left with Fiona), the three decide to head to the Fairy Godmother’s factory. They walk in on the Fairy Godmother preparing a love potion, and are promptly dismissed after Fairy Godmother tells Shrek that there are no happy endings for ogres. Shrek and his friends disguise themselves as employees and break into the potion room. They set off an alarm and barely escape Fairy Godmother’s guards, but not before making off with a “Happily Ever After” potion.

Shrek, Donkey, and Puss begin walking back to Far Far Away, and after some discussion and the revelation that the drinker must kiss his true love by midnight to make the effects of the potion permanent, Donkey takes a test-drink to make sure it’s safe. After nothing immediately happens to Donkey, Shrek finishes off the bottle. It begins to rain and the three take shelter in a nearby building, where Shrek and Donkey almost immediately collapse. Back at the castle, Fiona is worried about her missing husband (who had left very early in the morning to meet Harold in the woods), and announces to her parents she will find Shrek and they will go back to the swamp. However, she collapses at the door of the castle and is taken to her room by her parents.

The following morning, Shrek, Donkey and Fiona have all transformed—Shrek into a strong, handsome man, Donkey into a white stallion, and Fiona into her original “uncursed” appearance from the first movie. Shrek runs to Fiona’s castle to greet her, but an unfortunate circumstance has them missing each other in the castle and Shrek makes his way to her room and she makes her way to the front door, presumably by alternate routes. Inside Fiona’s room the Fairy Godmother waits to stall Shrek, while Prince Charming introduces himself to Fiona as the new, transformed Shrek. Fiona is initially confused, but uneasily accepts this as truth. Shrek, forced to watch the scene from the window (in which he sees Charming hugging Fiona and her returning, then going inside with him) becomes dejected and takes the Fairy Godmother’s advice and leaves.

Donkey, Shrek, and Puss are all sitting dejected at the Poison Apple (the same seedy pub where Harold hired Puss) when Shrek spots a cloaked Harold sneaking into a private meeting room. He there meets with Charming and Fairy Godmother, who explain that Harold must slip Fiona a love potion so that she can kiss Charming and make the potion permanent. Harold refuses until the Fairy Godmother threatens to take away his own “happily ever after”. Shrek, Donkey, and Puss watch quietly from outside the window, but Donkey blows their cover when Charming addresses Fairy Godmother as “mother,” causing Shrek and his friends to run. The Fairy Godmother proclaims them as bandits and thieves and sends men-at-arms after them.

Back at Shrek’s swamp, several people (the Three Blind Mice, the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf, the Gingerbread man, and Pinnochio) are watching a “broadcast” of the red carpet at Fiona and Shrek’s royal wedding ball, using the Magic Mirror as a television. They catch a promo for an upcoming episode of “Knights,” which shows a white stallion, a red cat, and a brown-haired man (Donkey, Puss, and Shrek, respectively) being chased and finally arrested. Shrek’s friends notice that as Shrek is thrown into the prison wagon, he identifies himself madly as Shrek and asks for Fiona.

Meanwhile, Fiona is nervous about the upcoming wedding ball, citing displeasure with the “changes” in Shrek. Harold brings two cups of tea to her room (one laced with love potion) and has a heart-to-heart with her in which she explains that she loved the old, “ugly,” uncouth Shrek for who he was. As she reaches for a cup of tea, Harold stops her and takes the cup she was going to drink from, explaining that he needs the decaffeinated mug (it is initially unrevealed if he gave her the potion or not).

Shrek’s friends show up to spring him, Donkey, and Puss from the dungeon, and they devise a plan to storm the castle and stop the royal ball. They head to Drury Lane where they have the Muffin Man make them a giant (though mentally simple) gingerbread man named Mongo. As Shrek rides Mongo to the castle to break in, Prince Charming begins dancing with Fiona and forcibly trying to kiss her (to activate the love potion), but she keeps rebuffing him. Shrek makes it into the castle (though Mongo is doused with boiling milk and falls into the moat), and with Puss and Donkey races his way to the courtyard where the ball takes place. Many knights give chase, and Puss falls back to repay his debt to Shrek by holding them off so that Shrek may continue.

Just as Charming is about to kiss Fiona, Shrek arrives and stops them, enraging the Fairy Godmother. A struggle ensues in which many parties fumble to keep Fairy Godmother’s wand away from her, but Prince Charming finally gets a hold of it and tosses it to her. She uses it to hold everyone at bay and instructs Charming to kiss Fiona. Fiona head butts Charming (revealing that Harold never gave her the potion), which causes the Fairy Godmother to turn on Shrek, claiming once again that there are no happy endings for ogres. She sends a bolt of magical energy at him, but King Harold dives in front and is hit instead, but the bolt also reflect off his breastplate and strikes the Fairy Godmother, causing her to turn into dozens of pink bubbles that pop and rain on the ground. King Harold is transformed into a bullfrog, and reveals that the Fairy Godmother transformed him into a man years ago so that he could win the love of Queen Lillian, and apologizes for his behavior and giving his royal blessing. As the clock strikes midnight, Fiona tells Shrek that she loved him for who he was and that he didn’t need to change for her, so the potion wears off and they both transform back into ogres (and Donkey turns back into a donkey). The movie ends with a musical montage, with cast members (led by Puss and Donkey) sing and dance to Ricky Martin’s "Livin' La Vida Loca,"

After the credits role, Donkey is shown alone crying and singing “All By Myself;” Dragon almost immediately appears with six flying dragon-donkey hybrid children, and the two are reconciled.

Voice Cast

Main article: Cast of Shrek

Main Cast

Minor Cast

Box office and critical response

Shrek 2 spent a total of 21 weeks in theaters, closing on November 25, 2004. It grossed about $440 million domestically (USA and Canada) and totalled just under one billion USD worldwide. This puts the movie (as of December 30, 2005) at 3rd all time on the domestic box office list and 6th on the worldwide box office list. It was also the number one grossing movie of 2004. With DVD sales and Shrek 2 merchandise are estimated to total almost $800 million USD, this is DreamWorks most profitable movie to date.

Metacritic has developed a weighted average rating of 73 out of 100 based on 39 professional reviews published in newspapers, magazines and in highly regarded Internet sites [8]. Users of the Internet Movie Database gave a rating of 7.8 out of 10 to the movie. [9]

Trivia

TV/movie references

  • The plot has some similarities to Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Indeed, Jeffrey Katzenberg has referred to Shrek 2 as "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner meets Shrek.
  • In the dinner scene, Fiona's mother comments "Not that there's anything wrong with that!", which is a famous saying from Seinfeld.
  • When the carpet says "Roll in the hay", that is what the girl in the carriage says in Young Frankenstein.
  • In the book recap of Princess Fiona's life when the film begins, when she is shown to the people of Far Far Away, her parents hold her over the edge of the tower of the castle with the sun shining down on the princess; a reference to the start of The Lion King where the newborn Simba is being shown to the rest of the animals of the plain.
  • The scene with Shrek and Fiona kissing on the beach is a spoof of the beach scene with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. When the wave washes over them Fiona's place is momentarily taken by a mermaid who looks suspiciously like Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid. Then Fiona throws her to the sharks, one of which looks suspiciously like the great white used in the poster art and logo of Jaws.
  • Early in the movie, a golden ring is forged for Fiona, which is tossed in the air and lands on her finger in a spoof of a similar scene in The Lord of the Rings. However, instead of being inscribed with the Ring-inscription (One ring to rule them all...), it simply reads "I love you."
  • At the start of the movie, when Shrek is caught in a trap and hanging upside down, he lands in some mud that covers his face. Fiona wipes off the mud to reveal his mouth and kisses him. This is a spoof of the Spider-Man movie, where Spider-Man is hanging upside down and Mary Jane Watson half-takes off his mask and kisses him in the rain. Also, in a later scene, Donkey warns Shrek not to drink the potion by saying my donkey-sense is tingling , a reference to Spider-Man's "spider-sense".
  • When Fiona beats up several people at the very beginning of the film, the moves she does are carbon copies of Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick and Ryu and Ken's Dragon Punch (Shoryuken) from the fighting game Street Fighter II.
  • When Shrek and Fiona are invited to Far, Far Away, the trumpeter (Reggie, possible play on the character Reggie Mantle) who peels off from the ranks to play a solo (and is subsequently hit over the head) is playing the theme song to Hawaii Five-O.
  • Shrek refers to the trumpeters as "Sgt. Pompous and the Fancy-Pants Club Band," a play on The Beatles' legendary "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
  • In the king and queen's room, you could see picture of Link riding on Epona, from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
  • Far Far Away was modelled after Beverly Hills.
  • Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona pass a billboard of the Fairy Godmother that is similar to the Angelyne advertisements.
  • A sign similar to the Hollywood sign has the text "Far Far Away".
  • Upon first seeing the kingdom of Far, Far Away, Donkey says "Champagne wishes and caviar dreams from now on": a reference to Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
  • There are a few references to The Wizard of Oz:
    • Upon first seeing the kingdom of Far, Far Away, Shrek says "We are definitely not in the swamp anymore."
    • The Fairy Godmother arrives at Fiona's balcony encased in a bubble à la Glinda the Good Witch.
    • When Donkey's caught in the rain, he says "I'm melting! I'm melting!"; the same line that the Wicked Witch said when she met her demise.
  • Also when they enter Far Far Away, Donkey's head with the palm tree background is a reference to Eddie Murphy's own Beverly Hills Cop.
  • The waiter's "Bon Appétit" and bow spoof John Cleese's waiter character in Monty Python's "Mr. Creosote" sketch from The Meaning of Life. Cleese provides the voice of Fiona's father in this film.
  • The scene during the dinner with Fiona's parents where the camera cuts to different characters and they say each other's names is a reference to a similar scene in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • The Fairy Godmother's first song is reminiscent of "A Spoonful of Sugar", one of the songs from the music Mary Poppins, which starred Julie Andrews, who provides the voice of Fiona's mother in this film.
  • During the first Fairy Godmother scene where the wind blows Fiona's dress there is a reference to Marilyn Monroe's dress scene in The Seven Year Itch.
  • There are a few references to Disney's Beauty and the Beast:
    • Dancing furniture looks remarkably similar to those in Beauty and the Beast.
    • Two "elves" from the Fairy Godmother's Factory turn into a candleabra and a grandfather clock vis-a-vis Lumiere and Cogsworth.
    • The toadstool that is splattered by the "Happily Ever After" potion transforms into the rose from that film as well.
  • When Shrek is thinking in Fiona's bed, he sees a poster of "Sir" Justin. Dreamworks deny this is a reference to Cameron Diaz's personal life, as she was dating Justin Timberlake (who coincidentally plays King Arthur in Shrek 3) when the movie opened.
  • While in bed, Fiona's mother reads a copy of "Kings Are from Mars, Queens Are from Venus," a play on Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.
  • Also in Fiona's room, there is a poster near her door depicting a stone structure and a guitar-playing knight with the title "Stonehenge" underneath, a homage to the movie This is Spinal Tap.
  • The Fairy Godmother visits a fast food restaurant named "Friar's Fat Boy", a reference to the US chain Frisch's Big Boy.
  • The first visit to the Poison Apple by the king shows several characters:
  • The visit to the Poison Apple is like the scene in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin come to the Prancing Pony.
  • During the scene where Puss in Boots first encounters Shrek, he rips out of Shrek's shirt, in the same manner as aliens "hatch" out of human bodies in the Alien movie franchise. In a blooper in the scene, the rip in Shreks' shirt disappears almost instantly and is never seen again.
  • Tinkerbell appears in the end of the movie dancing with Gingy.
  • Gingy has both his legs in this movie even though Lord Farquaad crumbled up his other leg in the first movie. In the first movie he used a candy cane. Apparently, the muffin man was able to fashion a new leg for Gingy.
  • Puss in Boots inscribes the letter "P" into a tree using three strokes of his sword, parodying the character of Zorro where the callsign of the hero Zorro is slashing the letter "Z" using three sword strokes. Incidentally, Antonio Banderas, the actor voicing Puss in Boots, played Zorro in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro. He subsequently reprised the role in 2005's The Legend of Zorro.
  • After Puss in Boots attacks Shrek, Donkey suggests that Shrek give him the "Bob Barker treatment." Bob Barker, the long-time host of CBS' The Price is Right, always ends his program by urging TV viewers to spay or neuter their pets.
  • In the scene where Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots arrive at the Fairy Godmother's office, she says "What in Grimm's name..."; a reference to the Brothers Grimm, who published collections of many fairy tales such as the ones used in this movie.
  • As Puss in Boots reads out various potion names in the storeroom, he calls out "Hex-Lax," and "Elfa-Seltzer", referencing the laxative Ex-Lax, and the indigestion remedy Alka-Seltzer. Also, "Hexe" is the German word for "witch", as well as being a synonym for a magic spell. Puss in Boots also calls out "Toadstool softener" although this is not a pun based on the brand name.
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Shrek and his princess bride, Fiona.
  • When Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots escape from the potion storeroom in the Fairy Godmother's factory, Puss quickly reaches under the door to rescue his hat, as Indiana Jones does in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
  • One of the stories Fairy Godmother refers to (which have no ogres in the plot) is Pretty Woman, after the Julia Roberts film.
  • Shrek and his friends grab some hanging rope and fly over the spilled potion to avoid contacting with it. That resembles the final battle scene in the Demolition Man movie, where John Spartan avoids being frozen much the same way.
  • After drinking a potion, Shrek and Donkey both faint. Donkey utters the words "I'm comin', Elizabeth!", a reference to a line frequently spoken on Sanford and Son, when the main character was calling out to his deceased wife, to imply (usually for no real reason) that he was close to death.
  • To get Shrek to cheer up, Donkey sings a few bars from the song "Tomorrow": a reference to the musical Annie.
  • In the scene where Shrek, Donkey, and Puss in Boots are drinking in the tavern, Puss in Boots says "I hate Mondays," a line often used by Garfield the cat in Jim Davis's Garfield comic strip.
  • The love potion that the Fairy Godmother gives King Harold to give to Fiona is labeled "IX," a reference to the 1959 pop hit "Love Potion #9," by The Clovers.
  • The arrival of guests on the red carpet at the royal ball show is being broadcast by "Medieval Entertainment" and is hosted by Joan Rivers, a reference to the E! Entertainment Channel, and to Joan herself, who usually interviews people arriving at the Oscars.
  • At Shrek's house in the swamp, the Gingerbread Man — bored with watching the royal ball show — tells his fairy tale friends to flip over to "Wheel of Torture," which is a parody of Wheel of Fortune.
  • "Knights", a spoof of Cops; has a reference to O. J. Simpson and his fleeing from the police with "We've got a white bronco heading east into the forest, requesting aerial backup."
  • There is a visual spoof of Mission: Impossible when Pinocchio is lowered into the well.
  • When the giant gingerbread man, Mongo, is "born," the little Gingerbread Man says "It's alive!": a reference to Frankenstein.
  • When Mongo destroys the "Farbucks," people are seen fleeing it, only to run across the street into another one, a comment on the real life ubiquity of the Starbucks chain.
  • Mongo is a spoof of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. He gets his name from Alex Karras's dim-witted strongman in Blazing Saddles. Also, the scene in which he first appears knocking down palm trees is similar to the introduction of the adult T-Rex's in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He also lets out a Godzilla roar when his gumdrop button is shot off, and tells the little Gingerbread Man to "Be good" in imitation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
  • Right after seeing the Fairy Godmother billboard, Shrek sits back in the chariot, and a "Burger Prince" logo can be seen on a building, a parody of Burger King, the fast-food emporium.
  • Spoof of The Fabulous Baker Boys, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, when the Fairy Godmother rolls around on the grand piano.
  • Puss in Boots sits in a chair and douses himself with water, just like Jennifer Beals did in Flashdance.
  • Pinocchio imitates Michael Jackson's famous "Billie Jean" dance routine on the dance floor during the ball scene.
  • At the end of the movie, Puss in Boots says he is going to the Kit-Kat Club: a reference to the club from Cabaret.
  • When the King is talking to the Fairy Godmother, he uses 'my old Crusades wound' as an excuse. This is a reference to John Cleese's Basil Fawlty character, who employed similar tactics (shrapnel from Korea) when trying to distract hotel guests.
  • When the potion that Shrek stole from the Fairy Godmother takes effect, a maiden gives him a pail of water and says her name is Jill, an obvious reference to the nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill.
  • When Puss in boots gives that "sad eyes" look, there is a reflection of the RE/MAX Real Estate blimp floating by in Puss' eyes.
  • When the Fairy Godmother is ordering food at the Fast Food Restaurant she orders a Medieval Meal. This is a reference to McDonald's Happy Meal. The box of the Medieval Meal is also similar to the Happy Meal.
  • In the scene where the group enters Far Far Away, there is a shot of hills and the Far Far Away sign. This scene is very much like the view of the Paramount Studios, except that there is actually the Hollywood Sign.
  • The signs that Shrek sees on his way to Far Far Away are reminiscent of the South of the Border signs.
  • The bartender of the Poison Apple is named Dorris, a spoof of the fact that in many movies and TV series, the bartender is named Horace.
  • When Shrek, Donkey, and Puss are arrested, the knights put pepper in his face, a play on pepper spray.
  • When Puss is being frisked, the Knights find him with a baggy of catnip, him saying he's never seen it before, this is a play on many movies where people deny ever seeing a baggy of cocaine. Puss also replaces beer or other achohalic beverages with milk.
  • When Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey leave for Far Far Away,Donkey sings a rendition of the theme song to the CBS television series Rawhide it goes like this:
Move 'em up, head 'em on,Rawhide!
Head 'em up, move 'em on,Rawhide!
Ride 'em up, move 'em on!
Head 'em up, head 'em up,move 'em on, Rawhide!
Knock 'em out, pound 'em dead! Make 'em tea! Buy 'em drinks!
Meet their Mamas! Milk 'em hard, Rawhide! Yee-Ha!

Places and names in Far Far Away

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Donkey, voiced by Eddie Murphy.

In order of appearance:

Movie name Real name
Romeo Drive Rodeo Drive
Farbucks Coffee Starbucks Coffee
Burger Prince Burger King
Versarchery Versace
Saxon Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue
Old Knavery Old Navy
Tower of London Records London Records (or Tower Records)
Gap Queen The Gap
Banana Kingdom Banana Republic
Barneys Old York Barneys New York
Abercrombie & Witch Abercrombie & Fitch
Pewtery Barn Pottery Barn
Friar's Fat Boy Frisch's Big Boy
Baskin Robinhood Baskin Robbins
Armani Armoury Armani Exchange

Far Far Away Idol songs

At the end of the Shrek 2 DVD, Shrek, Fiona, and Simon Cowell (a judge on both Pop Idol and American Idol) judge a Pop Idol-like contest called Far Far Away Idol. Here were the numbers:

If someone other than Shrek and Fiona, Donkey, or Puss in Boots wins, Simon Cowell sings Frank Sinatra's "My Way."

Other trivia

  • In the UK, the parts of the Ugly Stepsister and the entertainment correspondent (originally voiced by Larry King and Joan Rivers, respectively) were re-dubbed by Jonathan Ross (among other things, the presenter of the BBC's Film show) and Kate Thornton. They are credited at the very end of the original credits. This was most probably done in order to garner interest from British fans, since both replacements are much more well known in the UK than the original voices.
  • For the UK release, the King's line '...the old Crusades wound' was redubbed to '...the old hunting wound.'
  • John Cleese and Julie Andrews recorded most of their dialogue in the same studio, at the same time, which is considered unusual for a production like this which usually records its voice actors separately.
  • Joan Rivers' cameo marks the first time that a real person had been represented on screen by the Shrek animation team. The DVD version of the film includes a second real-life cameo with an appearance by Simon Cowell in the "Far Far Away Idol" bonus feature.
  • When Shrek attempts to crowdsurf but lands on the dog, the dog wets itself just before being squashed by Shrek.
  • A continuity error in the movie: While Shrek is disguised as a factory worker, he nervously says to a co-worker, "TGIF". The next day, Puss in Boots comments, "I hate Mondays."
  • Another error occurs during Shrek's transformations: When he becomes human, he retains and subsequently discards his ogre clothes. However, when he transforms back, his ogre clothes reappear, as does Fiona's green dress.
  • Shrek 2 was originally going to release in June 2004.
  • It was the first film with over 4,000 theaters in overall counts; over 3,700 theaters was its counts for an opening day. Spider-Man 2 was the first film with over 4,000 theaters for an opening day and second for overall counts.
  • This film can be seen as a comeback at DreamWorks for Mike Myers, whose previous film for the studio, 2003's The Cat in the Hat, failed in the box office.

Box office totals

  • Budget - $70,000,000
  • Opening Weekend Gross (Domestic) - $108,037,878
  • Total Domestic Grosses - $441,226,247
  • Total Overseas Grosses - $479,439,411
  • Total Worldwide Grosses - $920,665,658

See also

External links

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