Shrek 2 is a Film in synthesized images of Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, continuation of Shrek , which was an adaptation of the fairy tale of William Steig, by DreamWorks SKG in 2004.

Synopsis

Although Shrek and Fiona are now married, they will have to still face many tests. They must go to meet the parents of Fiona, king Arrold and the Lillian queen. They appreciate only very fairly the fact that Fiona changed, and the king does not appreciate at all that his/her daughter married a vulgar ogre…

Data sheet

  • Producing: Jeffrey Katzenberg
  • According to the work of: William Steig
  • Music: Harry Gregson-Williams (additional: Heitor Pereira)
  • Costumière: Isis Mussenden
  • decorator Chief: Guillaume Aretos
  • assembler Chief: Michael Andrews and Sim Evan-Jones
  • Country: The United States
  • Budget: 70 million $
  • Boxoffice:
    • World: 920.665.658 $ #7 of world classification
    • the United States: 441.226.247 (47,9%) #3 of the US classification (#29 of the US classification adjusted by inflation)
    • Belgium: 6.927.659 $
    • France: 50.966.511 $
  • Comings out date:

English voices

French voices

Reception

The film was selected for the Cannes festival 2004.

With the the United States, Shrek 2 is the second best receipt over three days of the Histoire of the cinema and the first for a Cartoon film.

Winks

  • When the ass passes under the coconuts has Rodeo Drive, it has a dolly pointing out the credits of the Flic of Bervely Hills where Eddy Murphy, which doubles the ass in VO, played.
  • the Potté cat makes think has a masked avenger similar to Zorro, wink with the lapping machine of the Potté cat which is not other than Antonio Banderas, the actor who played by twice Zorro on big screen.

Marks and undertaken

  • When the prince shakes his fair hair, it says the advertizing counterpart-slogan " Because I am worth it bien" of the mark L'Oreal.
  • giant letters " FAR FAR AWAY" is a resumption of the Hollywood Sign.
  • At the time of the arrival of Shrek and Fiona in the city, the signs of shops point out real marks and stores in the order: Versace, Starbucks Coffee, Burger King like Gap.
  • Always at the time of the arrival downtown, one can see a red Ferrari tractor drawn by 6 horses.
  • While entering the Kingdom of Extremely Remote Fort, Shrek the Ass and Fiona pass in front of the castle of Cinderella whose fairy points out that of the cartoon of Walt Disney Pictures.
  • At one time, the Fairy places order to a restaurant which passably makes think of Burger King.

Films

In the introduction of film under the song Accidentally in coils Counting Crows, there is commes filmic references:
  1. the Lord of the Rings : When Shrek launches the ring in the air under heat, there is a plan on the ring which falls down to the finger of Fiona, similar to a scene where Frodon played by Elijah Wood receives it.
  2. Spider-Man : When Shrek is taken in a trap and that its head is soaked in mud, Fiona removes the mud to him which it has on the mouth to embrace it, which imitates the first kiss between Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson where this last fall its mask whereas it is always with back.
  3. As long as there will be men : Shrek and Fiona are embraced on the beach in a scene similar to film.
  4. Moulin-Rouge! : at the end of the scene, the camera starts to turn around the couple, exactly as at the end of the song " Your song" of film.
  • the take-off of the dress of Fiona refers to the film Seven years of reflection with Marilyn Monroe.
  • the scene where the Fairy makes dance the objects around Fiona is a direct reference to the Beautiful one and the Animal of Disney when the cups and the candlesticks dance around Belle.
  • the name of the tavern " Venom Apple" (Apple-Venom) refers to poisoned apple of Blanche Snow and the seven dwarves .
  • In the bed of Fiona, there is a small poster of " Lord Justin" , which refers has Justin Timberlake considered by much as a gun of contemporary beauty. (boyfriend of Cameron Diaz)
  • the Potté Cat is certainly a new version of the Chat Boot, but especially a reference to Zorro (with its Hispanic accent and its manner of engraving its initial P with the blade of its sword), part also played by Antonio Banderas (which makes its voice) with the cinema.
  • the way in which the Potté Cat tears the shirt of Shrek and extirpates some points out a famous scene of the film Alien , where the Xénomorphe spouted out of the chest of a man.
  • In the factory of the Fairy, the Potté Cat collects its hat at the time when the door is closed, taken again of a scene in the film the Adventurers of the lost arch . It there also a reference to Indiana Jones and the cursed temple , with the idea of slavery of the workmen.
  • In the same scene of brawl, the two workmen transform themselves into pendulum and candlestick as in the Beautiful one and the Animal of Walt Disney Pictures.
  • In the bar, the Potté Cat says that it " hates the lundis" , which is an expression fetish of Garfield. They are besides both of the striped cats oranges.
  • When Pinocchio is balanced at the end of a cord, one hears the musical topic of Mission impossible , the scene also taking again a famous scene of film where Tom Cruise is suspended by wire.
  • the giant gingerbread man resembles King Kong in much of its reactions. When it is created, somebody shouts " He is alive! " as Frankenstein said it. Before running in water, the giant known as " Would be bon" with the gingerbread man, which is a quotation of E.T .
At the beginning of film, in the sequence of the heralds who play of the trumpets, the musical topic is that of Hawaii-five-O

See too

External bonds

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