It's very rare that I say that a sequel to the movie is better than the first. I usually have strong feeling for the first go around of a movie, since it's where the characters are introduced, as well as the reason we even bother going to see the sequel. This is how I felt about "Wayne's World", "Star Wars", and "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring". Only "Hot Shots! Part Deux" and "Scary Movie II" surpassed their predecessors. (There are probably others, but I can't think of any right now). Shrek II can probably join that list.

As much as I loved and enjoyed the first one, the sequel is just plain funnier. There were times where I missed jokes I was laughing so hard. But not only does Shrek II succeed in making the audience laugh, it still has the heart and emotion of the first movie.

Mike Meyers and Cameron Diaz are back as Shrek and Princess Fiona, who are newlyweds and are invited to Fiona's kingdom of Far Far Away to recieve her parents' blessing. A love triangle forms when Prince Charming, who was the one who was supposed to break Fiona out of her enchanted spell, comes back into the picture. Throw in a hilarious Eddie Murphy as Donkey and the fairytale characters we grew to love (the Gingerbread man, the three blind mice, the wolf and Pinocchio) and you've got a movie worth seeing. There were also some new characters introduced, my favorite being Puss in Boots. When he was first on screen, I was thinking to myself, "Ahh...are they trying to make that cat sound like Antonio Banderas?" Then I found out (it gets obvious later on) that it WAS Antonio Banderas.

I liked it so much, I wouldn't mind paying to see it again. Of course, me and Fata went to the matinee showing, so we didn't spend as much. Well, we DID, since we went to see it downtown and spent $7.50 on the matinee. (How much are movies nowadays?) The comedy is smart, often having jokes that would be over the head of the kids watching it, but will make adults snicker. After seeing it, I will never look at a pepper mill, pink thong underwear or the Little Mermaid the same again.

Posted by Yano at June 27, 2004 07:44 PM

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