I still sometimes just cue up that clip on youtube for a laugh.Īntonio Banderas is also an inspired addition to the cast as the swashbuckling cat Puss In Boots, a play on his Zorro lineage. But fuck, if that epiphany moment wasn’t amazing years later re watching the film and getting that whole send up. In 2004 I was about two years away from trying weed and still thought the world revolved around me so both those bits flew right over my fourteen year old brain. Good god damn if that isn’t the funniest shit ever. The gang back in Shrek’s swamp is watching KNIGHTS on tv, a play on COPS and they watch as Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots are arrested in far, far, away and not only does donkey, played by the very black Eddie Murphy, shout police brutality during the proceedings but the Knights find a dime bag of cat nip in Pusses pocket to which he replies, that’s not mine. The best joke comes late in the game and remains to this day for me one of the best over your head when your a kid jokes ever made in an animated film. From the silly joke names of the stores to the idea that all the princesses live in their own castle’s here, all the beats hit their mark. It is astounding to me even to this day just how much mileage they get out of that joke. What her parents are not expecting is the ogre Shrek to be her one and only and what follows is a hilarious send up of Hollywood under the guise of Far Far Away. Shrek and Fiona are married and living out their happily ever after when Fiona’s parents summon her and her husband to Far, Far, Away to celebrate her marriage. Not only is it funnier than the first one but I feel tells a much better story in what happens after Happily Ever After. I saw Shrek 2 with my group of friends on May 21st 2004 and I was immediately a huge fan of it.
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