Shrek 2

[meteordust]

I don't have much to say about this movie because it was just perfect.

Sometimes, you can sit down to a movie or open a book or power up a game and *know*, from past experience, that you're in good hands. When something has 'Pixar' or 'Pratchett' or 'SquareSoft' emblazoned on it, for example, I can be pretty confident it's going to be good and I'm going to enjoy it. And that's what watching Shrek 2 was like. When I first heard they were making a sequel to the original Shrek, I was sceptical. Did it really need a sequel? And could it be as good as the original movie? The answer to the last question, at least, is yes.

And the good news is that this isn't the end of the story. The Sydney Morning Herald reports:

Jeffrey Katzenberg will now admit it. There were always plans to make four Shrek movies. "We didn't have the guts to tell anybody when we started out," says one of the most powerful studio bosses in Hollywood. "We have two more chapters to tell. Not unlike Peter Jackson did with The Lord of the Rings. The difference is they did have the guts to make all three of them back-to-back-to-back."

Shortly before the Shrek 2 premiere, he confirmed that work on Shrek 3 has been proceeding for nine months and on Shrek 4 for three months, which will continue the series until 2009.

Comments

[calla-s.livejournal.com]

That's good to know. I only just recently saw Shrek on tv, 'cause I hadn't expected to like it, but it was great. Then, like you, I had been pretty sceptical about the sequel, and had heard mumurings along the lines of "good tv movie"

[meteordust.livejournal.com]

Well, to me the first movie was so complete in itself that a sequel seemed unnecessary. But the sequel does explore the themes a bit further, and I thought it was definitely as good as the original.