Shrek 2

Pros: Nice images
Cons: Awful script and even worse soundtrack

What is it about the movie Sh rek that had critics and cinema audiences the world over salivating like a starving dog looking through a butchers window back in 2001? It sounds like an easy question to answer, but ...

Pros: Great animation and storyline.
Cons: Not long enough.

Here a Shrek, there a Shrek, EVERYWHERE a Shrek, Shrek! Cereal boxes, fruit rollups, is there anyplace Shrek HASN'T been? Fortunately he was on our movie screen last weekend in the Shrek sequel, Shrek2. This animated movie features the voices of: ...

Pros: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas
Cons: Lack of interesting conflict and annoying characters

When the first Shrek movie came out a couple of years ago, I couldn't get my wife to see it with me. My then 14 year old stepdaughter and I went to the late Friday night show. As we sat outside the theater for the earlier movie to end, we witnessed the ...

Pros: great sequel to a great movie
Cons: disappointingly subdued performance by John Cleese

I've read so many reviews of Shrek 2 that, even as I was walking into the theater, I was prepared to be disappointed. Of course I wasn't about to let my four-year-old daughter be the only kid on the block who hadn't seen it, so off we went, well ...

Pros: If you want to know what happened after Shrek-'n'-Fionna get married, here's your chance.
Cons: The Fairy Godmother started getting on my nerves

Let me start by saying how the story started. Shrek released in 2001, was about an ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) who was living in a swamp area by himself and everyone feared him. He was mean, disgusting and what people chose to think of as ...

Pros: Yeah, there's pros. Lots of em.
Cons: Nah. No cons here. No siree.

Before I saw Shrek 2, I had read some reviews that claimed, "It takes a while to get moving." So, when I sat myself down on the couch the Friday night before the state meet, I said to myself, "I bet this is going to take a while to get moving. But ...

Pros: wry social commentary, the returning characters, king and queen
Cons: Fairy Godmother, Prince Charming, flashy media

Back in 2001, I saw Shrek in the theater. I enjoyed the animation, the clever jabs at traditional fairy tales and especially the unconventional ending, but it was considerably cruder than I expected an animated ...

Pros: Lots of jokes that will make everyone laugh.
Cons: Some of the jokes are needlessly crude and suggestive

2001 brought a surprise smash hit to the big screen in the form of Shrek. This computer animated movie spoofed fairytales as it told the story of an ogre who fell in love with a princess. Since ogres don't live happily ever after (and Hollywood wanted ...

Pros: Animation, Casting, Humor for all Ages
Cons: Commercialized a little, individual character development

Talk about a no brainer. Due to the smashing success of the first animated Shrek movie, the franchise is back for part 2 of what appears to be a long series of movies to come. A 3 year hiatus, will it help the movie or hurt it, does it live up to ...

Pros: Excellent animation, very humorous, brilliant characterization...
Cons: Predictable...

All year, Shrek 2 has been advertized as one of many Summer blockbuster movies – along with ‘Troy’ and ‘The Day After Tomorrow’. Unlike the latter two films, I believe Shrek 2 should indeed enjoy blockbuster status. It is very ...

Pros: Plenty of that same subversive humor as there was in the first Shrek.
Cons: Doesn't have the same novelty as the first one.

"I always thought the fairy godmother was supposed to be nice!" That was a friend's comment to me upon exiting the theater after seeing Shrek 2. I reminded him that one of the main aspects of the Shrek movies is the upending of conventional fairy tale ...

Pros: solid animation, Banderas and Murphy, the music
Cons: far too few gags, too slow in developing, the annoying Fairy Godmother

I, like millions of other people, loved the first Shrek movie. Between the excellent fairy tale story, the charmingly obnoxious Donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy, and its good-hearted pokes at every well known fairy tale this side of Snow ...

Pros: Some very funny moments. Unbelievable animation quality. Great voice acting. References galore.
Cons: Forces a plot for the sequal. A little too faithful to the original Shrek formula.

Disney’s greatest competition and threat on its near monopoly in the animated feature comes from DreamWorks and their now bonafide Shrek franchise. The once refreshing ideas of the original Shrek are used again in this somewhat derived ...

Pros: Edina with wings. I recommend a Chateauneuf '74 to accompany.
Cons: Accents! Again! Why oh why? Is not combustible.

I didn't like the first Shrek. Very possibly because for two years everyone had been telling me how much I'd love it and how I was failing as a human being if I did not RUSH OUT RIGHT NOW and see it. Well when I did eventually see it, it was ...

Pros: Excellent story and rich visuals; Puss in Boots; the return of the Ogre; hilarious
Cons: Emotional depth of original is not highlighted

The applause audiences are almost bound to hear at the conclusion of SHREK 2 is not of the polite, appreciative variety one would associate with a trifle of a film diversion. Oh no, rather the enthusiastic and perhaps even rapturous hurrahs of filmgoers ...