It wasn't funny
Saw Shrek 2. Disappointed.
I think it wasn't as funny as the first one, because it laughed at Hollywood. And you just can't laugh at Hollywood, because that place is so crazy already. Poking the fairy tales and Disneyland in the first part worked, because it was new, and they take themselves so seriously. Populating Hollywood with magical creatures is so unsuprising, you almost go "where are all the pixie versions of the crack whores?" And everybody laughs at the movie industry every day for being what they are - they're better parodies of themselves than what anyone can do.
Shrek 2 felt just like a big US movie industry injoke, something you could sort of see was meant to be funny, but couldn't quite work out because of lacking background knowledge.
Okay, I laughed a few times. But I was hoping for better.
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Well, I couldn't agree more. I just got the feeling there were lots of scenes in the movie that were there just because they wanted a "funny pop culture reference", but they didn't bring anything to the story itself. Sad, I wanted it to be really good :(--Kolibri, 10-Sep-2004