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Shrek Attack; The big fat green sequel will reanimate DreamWorks. That's one enchanted ogre.(Shrek 2)(Movie Review)
Byline: Sean Smith
Captain Hook is playing the blues. At a dive bar in a forest, the Ugly Stepsister is hawking booze, the Headless Horseman is hammered and the king is hiring a hit man to kill Shrek. Can you blame him? The ogre has won the heart of the princess and thrown the castle into chaos--he's ruined everything! Just ask Disney.
Three years ago "Shrek" grossed $480 million worldwide and scored DreamWorks the first-ever animated-movie Oscar by lampooning the fairy-tale formula that had built the Magic Kingdom. "Disney has really been the leader, in every respect, for 75 years," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, who shepherded "The Lion King" at Disney, then founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen 10 years ago. "We needed to find our own path, a sensibility that's a little subversive. 'Shrek' defined us." And changed the industry. Suddenly the Little Mermaid was all wet, and Sleeping Beauty looked very, very tired. Since 2001 only one traditional animated film, Disney's "Lilo & Stitch," has grossed more than $100 million in the United States. Yes, Pixar has electrified the genre with the 3-D "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo." But if old-fashioned animation is dead, "Shrek" certainly helped kill it, and the sequel's about to throw more dirt on the coffin.
In "Shrek 2," the unjolly green giant (Mike Myers) finally meets Princess Fiona's regal parents. It isn't pretty. Before long, Shrek and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) are spatting, the Fairy Godmother is blackmailing the king--and the king's hiring an assassin to take Shrek out. And it's here that the movie reaches cruising altitude. The killer, Puss-In-Boots, is so hilarious that he steals "Shrek 2" out from under Shrek. "It was very easy to convince me to do the movie, because if somebody ...
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...Happily Ever After," transforms Shrek and Fiona into better lookers during...episodes. A vintage swashbuckler, Puss-in-Boots, enters as an agent of...such a witty, stellar addition to "Shrek 2" that he may need to be promoted...
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...favorite characters from the film - Shrek[R], Donkey, Fiona, Puss-in-Boots, Artie and Sleeping...players to assume the roles of Shrek, Puss-in-Boots and newcomer Artie...help of Merlin's magic wand. Shrek and friends must work together...
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...project.) And ``Shrek 2'' boasts one of...the fierce feline Puss-in-Boots (Antonio...m talking about.) Puss-in-Boots and Shrek take an immediate liking...new characters in ``Shrek 2,'' Puss-in-Boots (Antonio...
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- Magazine article from: Post McGorry, Ken May 1, 2004 700+ words
...supervising animator on the original Shrek too. At first, Hui says, there was a comfort level in working with Shrek 2's familiar lead characters...because we added so many characters in Shrek 2, Puss in Boots, Prince Charming, the...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek April 26, 2004 700+ words
...hiring an assassin to take Shrek out. And it's here...altitude. The killer, Puss-In-Boots, is so hilarious that he steals "Shrek 2" out from under Shrek...second." Fortunately, Shrek thinks Puss is cute, and lets him...
Source: HighBeam Research, Shrek Attack; The big fat green sequel will reanimate DreamWorks....