... another sequel failure

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2004)

I think it is fair to say that we all enjoyed the first successful attempt at Shrek, just like we would have other similar films like Toy Story. It is always going to be a different challenge for film makers to identify a "good" sequel, and we don't see many of them.
I feel saddened to report that this movie does not live up to any standards of a good movie. The dialogue is lame and the story does very little - no complaints of the animation; nothing beyond what we would expect from films today. This film moves towards an even younger audience, which is a step aside from the original Shrek. This is not the reason why I feel this is a poor movie, on it's own it just does not work.
We had the delight of an original cast, story and dynamic dialogue with the first, and heck, this is not at all the case with the sequel, so therefore I would expect something else.
It didn't happen at all. I laughed at one point when Shrek spat out a spoon having choked on some food.
The biggest problem is the story line, mixed slightly with a musical style is just very very poor and I got bored quite quickly.
Sorry, I was so disappointed myself.
2/10