When the Fairy Godmother sings "Holding Out for a Hero" she tells the pianist to 'put it in C minor,' yet the pianist immediately begins to play in G minor, and the rest of the song is sung in that key. See more...
In the scene where the giant gingerbread man takes the "Starbucks" coffee cup, you see a crowd of people flee from that Starbucks to another one across the street. This refers to a joke made popular by Lewis Black. (more info here: Starbucks Joke). See more...
Directed by Andrew Adamson, starring Antonio Banderas, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Saunders, John Cleese, Julie Andrews, Mike Myers, Rupert Everett (add more)
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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There is a scene where Shrek is hanging upside down with mud over his face and Fiona pulls it off just to reveal his mouth and she kisses him. This is identical to the scene in "Spider-Man" (2002) where Mary Jane pulls Peter's mask off to kiss him after nearly being mugged. [That's pretty much the point of the scene. Anyway, this does not count as valid trivia according to the rules of the site.]
Corrected by Brad
When Shrek wakes up after taking the "Happily Ever After" potion, one of the women tells him that she's got him a pail of water, then goes on to introduce herself as Jill. She probably went up the hill to get the water. [In a fairy tale world where Puss in Boots and the Gingerbread Man also exist, is this really worth pointing out?]
Corrected by Brad
When Shrek and Fiona are meeting Fiona's parents for the first time, Shrek notices people in the crowd with pitchforks and weapons. But why did they bring them? They, like everyone else, didn't know Shrek and Fiona were ogres. [Those are farm implements and they brought them because they're farmers and just happened to have them with them.]
Corrected by Phixius
In the first movie, Fiona escaped from the castle with nothing but her green dress. But in this movie she is wearing numerous outfits and is seen packing suitcases. Where did she get them? [Some time has passed between the end of the first movie and that point in the second movie. It's not unreasonable that she'd have acquired more than one outfit/possession.]
Corrected by Phixius
When all the fairy tale creatures leave the swamp to save Shrek, they leave the magic mirror behind. They have no need for it and it's to hard to carry around. At any rate, they definitely don't have it when they all run into the castle. But suddenly, during the "Living la vida loca" song, the magic mirror has appeared from nowhere. [The magic mirror is not present in the swamp. He's the anchor during the ME coverage of the red carpet. So the fact that he is around for the last sequence is not so strange.]
When the fairytale creatures are watching Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots being captured on the police show, they rewind the footage to hear Shrek calling his name. This is impossible on a TV programme. [TiVo.]
Corrected by Phixius
When Donkey drinks the magic potion that transforms him, presumably Dragon would transform too, since she is Donkey's partner. However during the period while Donkey is transformed, we know that Dragon transports the other creatures to Far Far Away to rescue Shrek and Donkey from the knights. The Dragon could not have done this if she was transformed, unless she was transformed into something else that could fly fast. So this means that the filmmakers are claiming that a Dragon (or another flying creature) and a Stallion is in fact ideal a "happily ever after" romantic pairing, or they made a mistake. [The directors have said in an interview that the Dragon had turned into a white pegasus when Donkey had drunk the potion. They also said that they cut out the pegasus scenes at a later date.]
Given that the Fairy Godmother can create potions that make people beautiful and healthy, why would she need to go on a diet? [There are a few possible explanations. For one, it is not uncommon in fairy tales for magical creatures to be unable to use their own magic to aide themselves. Another could be in the nature of her potions. Perhaps she is simply immune to them, being a magical creature, or perhaps they only work if you genuinely believe they will. This is also a common theme in fairy tales. Knowing the standard, everyday ingredients they contain may prevent her from believing they could work on her.]
Corrected by Phixius
To make the whole movie make sense, watch the alternate opening to the 1st Shrek (deleted scenes on the DVD). [This trivia is far too vague and is more applicable to the first film as stated in the trivia. It would make more sense to state why the deleted scenes help and what they explain.]
Corrected by Lummie
In the scene where Fiona starts to cry, many bubbles can be seen to fall from the sky. In one of them is Fairy Godmother. This is a reference to The Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. [Bit too obvious to be trivia.]
When Shrek cannot sleep at the castle, he gets up and starts moving around Fiona's room. He picks up her princess doll off of the shelf and it says the line "Dear Knight I pray that you take this favor as a token of my gratitude." This is the same line Fiona first said to Shrek when he rescued her from the castle in the first movie. [As mentioned hundreds if not thousands of times, observations in films are not trivia worthy. Additionally obvious observations such as the same line being used in a sequel is nothing new, just look at Terminator.]
Corrected by Lummie
When Shrek, Donkey and Puss are undercover stealing the potion in the Fairy Godmother's factory, Shrek greets a fellow worker with TGIF (Thanks God it's Friday), but the day after in the scene at the bar we hear the Puss say "I hate Mondays". We know that only one night has passed so it can only be Saturday. [Submitted and corrected so many times. Shrek is just making small talk, just throwing out phrases.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
During the red carpet scene (before the ball), the presenter says "...the abs are fab" as she describes the guests. This is a reference to "Absolutely Fabulous," commonly shortened to "AbFab," the British situation comedy that Jennifer Saunders (voice of the Fairy Godmother) stars in. [Copied almost verbatim from IMDB.]
Between shots of Puss singing "She makes you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain" a chain behind him appears out of nowhere. [(If you watch VERY CLOSELY in slow-motion, you will see that the chain does not ;appear out of thin air,' but drops down as soon as Puss sits on the chair-thingie.).]
In the beginning of the movie, when we see the shot of Shrek and Fiona in the mud pool breaking wind, the fairies in the bottles cough and sputter despite the fact that the bottles are well sealed from the outside by corks in the top. [They can't be "well sealed" because the fairies would end up suffocating and die.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
The banging on the window shouting "Fiona" scene is also a reference to Swan Lake (the classical ballet), in which the swan girl Odette watches from outside the window, in swan form, while Odile, the magician's evil daughter, takes her place at the ball with the prince. She beats on the window with her wings, but the prince doesn't hear. [No it's not- it's in reference to the last scene in "The Graduate" when Dustin Hoffman bangs on the glass in the church and yells "ELAINE" - it's a very famous scene.]
When Shrek reads Fiona's diary, on each page after it says she wants a real prince, it says "Mrs. Fiona Charming." This means she must have known who Prince Charming. So how was she so easily fooled into thinking Prince Charming was Shrek. Even though it was years later, people don't change that much, especially Prince Charming who's very picky about his appearance. [Prince Charming is the generic name for a fairy-tale prince. The Fairy Godmother simply named her son Charming to ensure that he would marry a princess. Fiona, on her hand, would expect _a_ prince, who would in her daydreaming bear the generic name.]
Corrected by Twotall
When Shrek first sees Fiona with Charming, he assumes she has simply fallen for someone else. He does not know who Charming is, and moreover, he does not know that Fiona knows about the potion. Donkey would simply have to tell Shrek that Fiona knows about the potion, and Shrek would logically conclude that she is mistaking Charming for himself. This renders a sizeable chunk of the movie unnecessary. [The fairy Godmother explains to Shrek that Fiona will be better off with Charming, that she needs more than an Ogre to spend the rest of her life with. And, when dealing with emotions, there is no such thing as the logical conclusion. Logic is logic and emotions are emotions.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
When the stallion is transformed back into a donkey, its horseshoes come off and land on the ground. But when Donkey finally comes back, the horseshoe is gone. [The horseshoes are part of the magical stallion form of Donkey, so when Donkey reverted to his true form, the horseshoe simply disappeared as well after landing on the ground.]
While attempting to steal the "Happily Ever After" potion, Puss tries to free the bottle from the round hole in the glass. Puss breaks the glass and moves a few other bottles on the same shelf, which causes them to fall a moment later. But surprisingly, bottles fall from many other places, as if Puss also moved bottles on other shelves. [Not all the shelves have glass covering them - the vibrations caused by the alarm when it goes off and the gears turning in the wall to shut the door shake the other shelves and make other bottles fall off.]
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