Touching love-story -- similar to "Beauty and the Beast"

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2005)

This state-of-the-art animated fantasy film is great family entertainment. The story is quite similar to "Beauty And The Beast", with a beautiful "fairy tale ending". At the very end of the DVD there is a bonus of about 5 minutes of "Kareoke" fun, featuring samplings of many well known Rock Songs, Oldies, even Motown Classics. I showed the DVD to my class of 4th-graders, who absolutely loved it!
My only complaint is the fact that many jokes were included that were either "over kids heads" or just not quite rated G. Even Eddie Murphy could tone it down for a kids film. The constant blah blah from the donkey character becomes tiresome quickly. Hold the babble water! Aside from these minor blemishes I give "Shrek" 2 thumbs up!****