Do you still remember the fairy tales of your childhood: Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Cinderalla, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio, etc? Watching Shrek 2 will bring you back memories of your childhood heroes. I watched Shrek 2 with my soulmate last week. Just like Shrek 1, the movie is fast-paced, full of witty and cleverly-written dialogues, and still amusingly distorts the usual storylines of your favorite fairy tales.
It took 3 years for the people at Dreamworks to come up with a sequel, but Shrek 2 is definitely worth the wait. Based on the children’s book by William Stieg, Shrek is the story of a green ogre with long, bugle-like ears, an oblong face, with frog lips and a double chin, hands the size of catchers’ mitts, tree-trunk legs and a massive torso with a sagging and voluminous belly. His twinflame, Fiona, the ogre-princess, and the ever-noisy and annoying Donkey are still present. The whole storyline still echoes the lesson of Shrek 1: true love is selfless and full of sacrifices.
The sequel takes the subject of falling-in-love a notch higher: now married to Fiona, Shrek now has to meet and learn to like his in-laws who he suspects won't like him. Though Fiona tells him to stay cool, Shrek proves himself right when the animosities of his father-in-law grew far enough for the latter to have him killed. You will laugh when you learn who was tasked to kill Shrek. The animosity between son-in-law and father-in-law soon evolve into a lovers' quarrel between Shrek and Fiona. Additional complexities were provided by Fiona's fairy godmother and Prince Charming.
Grown-up kids and adults will like this movie more than kids. The conversations will surely knock you off your seat.
I give this movie a two thumbs up! Highly recommended.
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: Today is the 31st of May, 2004 and according to a Reuters report, Shrek 2 ruled the first 3 days of Memorial Day Weekend pulling in an estimated $73.1 million from 4,223 theaters. It has already hauled in a massive $237.8 million, having raced past the $200 million mark on Saturday, it's 11th day. Only Spider-Man did it faster, taking nine days to do so in 2002. But the $70 million-budgeted Shrek 2 broke SPIDERMAN's old record for a second-weekend haul, which was $71.4 million. The next record in DreamWork's sights, is the one for a 4-day Memorial Day holiday, which The Lost World: Jurassic Park set in 1997 with a tally of $90.2 million.
I think Shrek 2 has all the power and wit to do that and Spidey wouldn't mind at all, because I also think Spidey 2 will break Spidey 1's records.
Sequels aren't just in vogue nowadays. They are now capable of breaking previous records set.
