The “Shrek 2” jokes that Skwigly has discovered (to date) include: Not to mentioning blowing most of this movie’s best gags. So - if you haven’t already yet seen “Shrek 2” - reading through this listing will ruin many of the film’s surprises. The following list contains numerous spoilers for this Dreamworks sequel. It’s then been broken down by category, with the hope that this will make it easier for you folks to spot the individual gags as they go flying by in the movie. With the help of some super “Shrek 2” fans (as well as a few folks who are “in the know” at Dreamworks Animation), we’ve compiled a partial preliminary listing.
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Obviously with a film like this, it’s really hard to keep track of every single in-joke, movie parody and cultural reference that goes whizzing by. But – in that brief amount of time – three Hollywood classics were affectionately skewered. You see what I’m saying here, folks? This particular sequence took up – what? – 20-30 seconds of “Shrek 2” ‘s running time. One of which looks like the Great White used in the poster art & logo of Steve Spielberg’s 1975 classic, “Jaws. Where the mermaid character is immediately fallen upon by two sharks. She grabs this little mermaid by the tail, swings her around a few times before tossing this Ariel look-alike back out into the surf. Of course, when Fiona sees this, she is furious. A mermaid that looks suspiciously like Ariel from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” And Shrek suddenly finds himself with a mermaid in his arm. This sequence starts off as a riff on that 1950’s Hollywood classic, “From Here to Eternity.” With the ogre bride & groom standing in for Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr as the couple that rolls around in the surf.īut then a huge wave suddenly engulfs these two. Take – for example – Shrek & Fiona’s honeymoon picnic on the beach.
Some of which whiz by in the blink of an eye. But – rather – because these moviegoers are eager to try & catch all of the movie’s in-jokes and cultural references. Not just because “Shrek 2” is a really funny film. Of course, one of the real secret to “Shrek 2” ‘s amazing success at the box office is that many moviegoers are walking out of one screening of the film and immediately getting on line, eager to buy tickets to the next showing of this DreamWorks sequel. The largest single day gross of all time (“Shrek 2” pulled in $44.8 million this past Saturday, besting the previous record holder – Sony’s Summer 2002 blockbuster, “Spiderman” – which sold $44.8 million worth of tickets during its first Saturday in theaters).The best opening weekend performance ever by an animated film (Earning an astounding $109 million vs.What box office records HASN’T “Shrek 2” broken yet ? To date, this DreamWorks sequel has: