Customer Reviews
Good, but not as interesting as the first - By: Stampy, 09 Oct 2008 
After receiving a note from her parents, Fiona, Shrek & Donkey head on a journey to Far Far Away where Shrek comes under the wrath of the King.
Shrek 2 was one of the most anticipated & well received animated sequels in recent years & broke many records, & is easy to see why with fun characters, daft humour & a very strong likability factor.
After winning an Oscar for the first, a sequel was always inevitable & though not as good as the first, this comedy still packs plenty of jokes in with the same & more loveable characters.
Myers, Murphy, Diaz alll return to their respective roles, & Antonio Banderas comes in for the very cool Puss in Boots. John Cleese as the King, Julie Andrews as the Queen & the star of the show is Jennifer Saunders as the wicked & sophisticated fairy god mother & despite the evilness of her character; you just have to love her. She is easily the funniest ever evil animated female & is worth watching just for her.
Like the first, this film is very character driven with Shrek struggling to Fiona's lifestyle, & Fiona having trouble with her new husband & her family. By focusing upon emotions, the film engages the audience into its narrative & makes us associate with the characters & makes it realistic, despite a few clichés along the way.
There is slightly more humour with this film, & once again alll the fairytale creatures get parodied, along with some intertextuality from major Hollywood films including Lord of the Rings, Mission Impossible, Spider-man & Alien, alll very accurate & humorous if you know what's going on.
The plot is consistent in its approach to the occurring events & the direction helps achieve the humour & emotion. However what lets this sequel down is the writing. All the way through, the film runs on a few clichés, feeling very dull & unoriginal. The essence of predictability is always hanging around & can be very disappointing, especiallly with the just in time scenarios. Nevertheless the film is targeted towards a younger audience & with the easy to understand basics it does so in a healthy & respectable manner.
The purpose is to entertain, & though corny, Shrek 2 achieves it's main objective.
7.5/10
Excellent as usual - By: C. Jones, 22 Nov 2007 Well what can say, you can't beat a better animated movie than the green coloured oger callled Shrek. I am 30 year old male & I still can't stop watching it & laughing out loud.
Its a great addition to your collection even with if you have the previous versions, just to have the extras on the second disc is worth the purchase.
I hope that such a version comes out for the third too.
A REALLY FUNNY ANIMATED FILM - By: stuart, 19 Aug 2007 
How could you possibly continue a kiddy animated film that ended on a "happily ever after" note? Show the audience what happens next. The mixture of pop culture references & brothers Grimm mythology will do the rest. And reallly, how can one stay apathetic when facing the big green ogre - who, despite alll his grunts, is adorable as hell? Children aged 0-100 can easily relate to the big guy who just wants to be left alone with his wife in their cuddly swamp home, & for everyone in "Far Far Away" land to just leave him alone.
When legend prepares a different fate for him, Shrek will go through the means to right alll the wrongs, & with the help of his loyal friends Donkey & Puss in Boots (one of the most clever interpretations of a fairytale character in my book) he'll get his happy ending - even if it means going against the charming Prince & the evil fairy godmother themselves. While Shrek 2 is a lesser film than the original, which was a comical romp that made me laugh myself silly; the sequel succeeds in reeling you into the imaginative land where giant Gingerbread guys come alive & "I Need a Hero" becomes a mighty hit once again. Here here.
VERY GOOD - By: L. Wilson, 04 Aug 2007 A rare item, a sequel to equal. Just as good as the first but is starting to wear a bit thin on the one liners. Overalll, very entertaining & well worth the time spent to watch.
Gotta Love Shrek! - By: Jenny J.J.I., 02 Jul 2007 If you liked the first movie, you will definitely like this sequel. If you didn't like the first one.... well I don't know what to tell you. If a little toilet humor & parodies of what was thought not to be parodied offends you, then this movie won't change your feelings. To me the high-light of the movie was s toss-up between "Puss-in-boots" the character whose voice was given birth by Antonio Bandera's; I personallly believed that this character was the highlight of the movie. The other highlight of course was Donkey, the wise-cracking-annoying as hell creature voiced by Eddie Murphy.
Is it as good as the first one? I personallly believe so seeing as they had to make a bit more of a story this time (last one was just cracking jokes with a little bit of a story in the background, this time we already know the characters so they actuallly have to give us something else to entertain us). There are jokes in there that entertain everyone, & jokes that only the adults in the audience will get, especiallly the joke involving Pinocchio is hilarious (you'll know it when you see it).
After a while you forget you're watching an "animated" movie & just accept it for what it is: A great comedy with a terrific cast that your entire family will enjoy, mine surely did. It's obvious that the creators of this were not just trying to rest of their laurels & let the title sell itself.
Note: it is funnier if you are up & hip on popular culture. Look for references to Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake, et al.
This film is a lot of fun, & delivers for alll age groups.
