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I'm gonna go ahead and say that it's as good as the first one. The Animation is even better than the first one, and the it's just as funny. The kids and adults in the theatre seemed as if they were all equally entertained by it. Lots of referances to other movies and overall, just a good story with a lot funny lines, gags and scenes.
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I enjoyed it a lot. I saw it at the Drive-In along with Van Sucking, and I have to say I enjoyed Shrek 2 a lot. Puss n Boots was just awesome as well as the Big Stupid Gingerbread man... it was awesome.
I wasn't doubting the gross of the movie at all:
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'Shrek 2' Shakes Up Box Office with Record Opening
Sunday May 23 2:23 PM ET
"Shrek 2," a cartoon revolving around a green ogre and his princess bride, trampled even the most optimistic forecasts as it set several new opening records at the weekend box office and kick-started the lucrative summer movie-going season into high gear.
The animated sequel sold about $125.3 million worth of tickets in its first five days of release across North America, its distributor, DreamWorks, said on Sunday.
If figures hold when final numbers are released on Monday, the total haul will set a new record for a Wednesday release, beating the $124.1 million earned by "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" last December.
For the three days beginning Friday, the traditional start of the weekend box office, the film earned $104.3 million, making it the second-best opener behind "Spider-Man," which kicked off its run with $114.8 million in 2002.
"No one thought we could get above the mid-80s for the three days," said Jim Tharp, president of domestic theatrical distribution at DreamWorks.
Executives at the closely held studio had merely hoped to set a new record for an animated opening, beating the $70 million bow of "Finding Nemo" a year ago, he said.
Its Saturday haul of $44.8 million is the best for any single day, beating "Spider-Man's" first Saturday of $43.6 million. The three-day tally for "Shrek 2" also ranks as the best opening so far this year, ahead of "The Passion of the Christ," which debuted with $89.3 million in February. Additionally, the film opened in a record 4,163 theaters.
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According to exit polls, more than 80 percent of moviegoers said they would definitely recommend the film, and more than 70 percent would see it again, Tharp said.
While a Wednesday opening tends to dilute weekend sales, Tharp said the positive word of mouth from the first two days actually boosted subsequent business.
As for another sequel, "Until today it was presumptuous to think about it," said Ann Daly, head of DreamWorks' animation division, "but let me tell you, we're thinking about it now."
The first "Shrek," released in May 2001, opened with $42.4 million in its first weekend, and went on to earn $267.7 million domestically.
"Shrek 2," which received its world premiere at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, follows the title character(Mike Myers) as he and his new princess bride, Fiona (Cameron Diaz), visit her regal parents (John Cleese and Julie Andrews). It was directed by Andrew Adamson, who worked on the first one, along with Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. The film was budgeted at between $70 million and $75 million, DreamWorks said.
Elsewhere at the box office, incumbent champ "Troy" slipped to No. 2 with $23.8 million in its second weekend, after a relatively modest drop of 49 percent. The worldwide total for the Brad Pitt costume epic stands at $232 million, including $85.8 million from North America. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc .
The monster thriller "Van Helsing" was at No. 3, also down one place, with $10.1 million and a 17-day haul of 100.2 million. Its worldwide total stands at $229 million, said a spokesman for Universal Pictures, which is owned by General Electric Co.-controlled NBC Universal.
Rounding out the top five were "Mean Girls" (Paramount Pictures) and "Man on Fire" (20th Century Fox) with $6.9 million and $3.5 million, respectively. Their domestic totals rose to $64.7 million and $69.3 million, respectively.
Paramount is a unit of Viacom Inc. Fox is a unit of News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group Inc.
The top 10 featured only one other newcomer. The acclaimed documentary "Super Size Me," in which filmmaker Morgan Spurlock risks his life to eat exclusively at McDonald's Corp. restaurants for 30 days, jumped two places to No. 10 with $953,000 from just 148 theaters. Its three-week haul stands at $2.9 million. The film was released by privately held entities Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films.
I plan to see this weekend The Day After Tomorrow opening this Friday.
I have to see Day After Tomorrow so I can write a review for the site... I was going to see it anyway, but yeah!
You pretty much have to figure that this one will be one of the top grossers of the summer.
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Shrek 2
RATED: PG RELEASED: 2004 RUN TIME: 01:45
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Well, it picks up right where the last one left off, both in terms of the thoroughly modern Marty courtship between the titular swamp ogre and Princess Fiona, and in terms of Dreamworks' attempt to turn random, satire-devoid pop cultural references into the new language of fairy tales. (The opening montage "zings" Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man; the main story line is mostly Meet the Parents.) Unfortunately for the studio, its new creation is at least six months behind the curve: The de rigueur digs at Disney come well after Pixar's emancipation, while the jabs at metrosexuality are too lame to be redeemed by the cannily queer voice-casting of Rupert Everett and Jennifer Saunders. (Whether its presence in competition at Cannes will allow the fest to atone for having offended conservative reviewers last year remains to be seen.) Speaking of gentrified minorities, Eddie Murphy's Donkey is still the studio system's highest profile "house negro" besides P. Diddy's umbrella-swinging manservant/dresser/minstrel Farnsworth Bentley. And though the character's Aunt Jemima-esque waffle-baking was generally accorded a blas? reception the first time around, I'd love to see even the most skeptical of critics try to ignore the sequel's subtext: Donkey taking a swig of "happily ever after" potion in order to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming--I shit you not--a snow-white stallion. (Eric Henderson)
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