A basket of doves is released to celebrate their arrival, and one of them is so astonished, it flies bang into the castle wall and drops dead at Harold's feet.Įventually the plot leads us into the environs of the Fairy Godmother ( Jennifer Saunders), a sinister figure who operates a vast factory manufacturing potions and hexes. Their arrival at the castle of Fiona's parents provides big laughs Harold and Lillian are shocked to find that their daughter has not only married an ogre, but become one. "The trick is to get him to shut up." The kingdom is indeed far, far away, which gives Donkey endless opportunities to ask, "Are we there yet?" "The trick isn't that he talks," Shrek observed in the first movie. Donkey is the comic high point of the movie, with Murphy's non-stop riffs and inability to guess when he is not welcome. This involves a very long journey by Shrek, Fiona and Donkey ( Eddie Murphy), who insists on coming along. No longer petite, she is tall and broad and green, and an ogre.Ī summons comes from the Kingdom of Far Far Away: Fiona's parents want to meet her new husband. Ideally, that would have been Prince Charming ( Rupert Everett), but in "Shrek 2," when he finally arrives in the neighborhood, he discovers to his intense disappointment that the ogre has already slain the dragon and wed the princess - and that Shrek's kiss dramatically transformed Fiona. In the first film, as you may remember, Fiona's curse was that she had been taken captive by a dragon, but could be freed if the dragon was slain and she was kissed by the hero who did the deed. His outsider status as the loner in the swamp has changed dramatically through his romance with Princess Fiona ( Cameron Diaz), although his table manners could stand improvement when he has dinner with her parents, King Harold ( John Cleese) and Queen Lillian ( Julie Andrews). There's nothing like a good woman to tame an ogre. Shrek (voice again by Mike Myers) actually seems teetering on the brink of middle-class respectability in the sequel.
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