genuinely funny but...

Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2004)

Shrek 2 has some genuinely funny moments but is a different kind of film to the first one. Whereas the first movie cleverly used characters from classic fairy tales, it ultimately weaved its own fairytale that can hold its own amongst the familiar stories it parodied.
Whilst much of Shrek 2 made me roar with laughter, and the animation is equally as good, if not better than the first movie, a lot of Shrek 2 comes across as watching shrek crossed with airplane or some other spoof. Way too many contemporary gags that will not stand the test of time largely to do with removing almost completely the European Gothic tradition of fairy tales and shifting it to the US of A.
Id happily watch it again but it just isn't the gem that the first one was.