Corrected entry: In the scene where Shrek, Fiona and her family are dining, when Shrek and Fiona's father start to bicker and angrily eat their food, they both go for the pig in the middle of the table. This should have been impossible as the table in other shots is shown to be too long for either of them to reach considering they are both sitting at opposite ends. This is shown especially when the pig goes flying into the air. (00:17:30)
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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?
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: Given that the Fairy Godmother can create potions that make people beautiful and healthy, why would she need to go on a diet?
Correction: 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 entry: To make the whole movie make sense, watch the alternate opening to the 1st Shrek (deleted scenes on the DVD).
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: Copied almost verbatim from IMDB.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: (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.).
Corrected entry: 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. (00:04:35)
Correction: They can't be "well sealed" because the fairies would end up suffocating and die.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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 entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: After pouring steamed milk on Mongo, we see Donkey and Puss terrified and then Mongo again, rising from behind wall with a funny wig on his head. The problem is that moment earlier the milk wasn't formed into a wig. You can tell the milk has swollen, but there's no swollen milk on his arms where it was also poured (and milk wouldn't have just drained off his arms without even any white residue).
Correction: The producers were after a bit of humor here, hence the outlandish wig created from the frothy milk.
Corrected entry: After the crate on the top of dungeon tower is blown up by Pigs Mice and rest, we can see it from the prisoners' point of view, and there are only remains of the crate at the edges, but in some places where at least short remains should've been, there is nothing. You can also tell that in right-bottom corner two short remains are little bit closer to each other than they should've been according to previous look of undamaged crate.
Correction: Please, let's not forget this is just an animated movie. The producers of the movie were more concerned with creating humor rather than a movie which conforms to the laws of known physics. If we follow the logic of the "mistake" suggested here to its ultimate end, then we would have to say the producers made a mistake by making Shrek an "Orge" which don't really exist, or including a donkey which can talk, when we all know donkeys don't talk.
Corrected entry: Donkey, as a stallion, jumps over five knights while trying to break into the castle. But when he lands, you can see six knights behind him.
Correction: There are six knights whole the time, only when Donkey is about to jump, his rear legs cover one of them on the left.
Correction: Actually, the size of the pig does make it possible for both of them to grab legs at either end of the pig. It's a stretch (no pun intended), but not impossible.
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