Two ogre thumbs up!

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2004)

I really am a fan of the first Shrek. It wasn't a highest technical achievement in animation but it was written unbelievable well. All the characters were excellent and the movie had just the right gross humor on it. Of course I was excitingly waiting the sequel. Who wouldn't?
Trailer for the Shrek 2 was given to audience pretty long time ago. When I saw it I thought that they have ruined the idea. Trailer showed only couple of boring jokes, basic characters and that's all? I was wondering that why did they had to make a sequel only to collect extra money with name Shrek? After seeing the movie I have to admit that I had thrown the towel too early.
In the very beginning, movie grabs you in with fast paced jokes and fluent introduction of Shrek's & Fiona's honeymoon. It didn't go long to me to realize that the trailer was not a usual spoiler but instead it was just telling that Shrek 2 is coming and showing only the obvious. All the magnificent jokes and funny plot twist were left to the movie giving excellent surprise to the audience. Once again the storytelling is fantastic feeding the viewer with clips of the all hit movies from couple of years and mixing many fairy tale characters in it very well. It shows that makers really have put effort to make the film as fluent as possible tweaking every singly detail and picture to their finest. All Characters are extremely well written and the voice talents are giving their best; special credits to remarkable Eddie Murphy as a Donkey (Noble steed). Also the great variation of music is played during the movie and it fits in the mood very well.

Shrek 2 really salutes the first movie and turns out to be one of the year's best movies and extremely good sequel. And for those who are knocking theater door to get out before the end credits have even started: I suggests you to check the credits, you will be rewarded greatly.