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After effects: PDI/DreamWorks develops tools to help Shrek and Fiona live happily ever after.(Film)(Cover Story)

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The tremendous critical and financial success of Shrek, which received the first Best Feature Animation Oscar and earned more than $480 million dollars in box-office revenues, made a sequel inevitable. But when the green ogre married beautiful Princess Fiona, the fractured fairy tale had its perfect ending. So, what could the plot masters for Shrek 2 do?

"We take up where the story left off," says Andrew Adamson, writer-director of PDI/DreamWorks's Shrek 2, which opens May 21. "We examine what happens 'happily ever after.'" For the newlywed ogres, the honeymoon ends when Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) receive an invitation to the Kingdom of Far, Far ...

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