{"id":2517,"date":"2004-05-23T19:37:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/shrek-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:29:03","slug":"shrek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/23\/shrek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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also saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shrek2.com\/\" title=\"Shrek 2\">Shrek 2<\/a>, which was a <em>far<\/em> more enjoyable experience than Troy.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite as strong as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00003CXXJ\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Shrek\">the first<\/a> overall, but still very enjoyable, and quite funny. <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000552\/\" title=\"Eddie Murphy\">Eddie Murphy<\/a> was actually funny (which only ever seems to happen in animated films anymore), and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000104\/\" title=\"Antonio Banderas\">Antonio Banderas<\/a> absolutely stole the show as Puss in Boots. The animation continues to get better and better, of course (some of the facial expressions are stunning to watch, especially Fiona&#8217;s as she faces the trial of introducing Shrek to her parents).<\/p>\n<p>The real fun, though, was everything in the background. There is so much going on behind the actual action that it will easily take multiple viewings to catch it all, from references to other movies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00003CXC5\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Adventures of Indiana Jones\">Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/6305181772\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Mission Impossible\">Mission Impossible<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B000067DNF\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"TFotR\">Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a>, among others) to the stores in Far Far Away (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abercrombie.com\/\" title=\"Abercrombie and Fitch\">Abercrombie and Witch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towerrecords.com\/\" title=\"Tower Records\">Tower of London Records<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldnavy.com\/\" title=\"Old Navy\">Old Knavery<\/a>, and &#8212; of course &#8212; multiple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/\" title=\"Starbucks\">Farbucks<\/a> coffee stores &#91;one of my favorite gags, in fact, was panicked people running out of a Farbucks under attack from a giant Gingerbread Man &#8212; directly into <em>another<\/em> Farbucks just across the street&#93;).<\/p>\n<p>The humor felt to me like it was pushed a little further to the adult side of the spectrum than the first Shrek was, too. Not so far that parents should question taking their children to the film (though do keep in mind that it is rated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmratings.com\/questions.htm#pg\" title=\"PG\">PG<\/a>, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmratings.com\/questions.htm#g\" title=\"G\">G<\/a>), but definitely a lot for the adults to laugh at.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;A Question of Time (New Town\/Live)&#8221; by Depeche Mode from the album <em>A Question of Time<\/em> (1986, 11:08).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We also saw Shrek 2, which was a far more enjoyable experience than Troy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,2535],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-shrek-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}