Corrected entry: After Shrek, Donkey and Puss find out from the magic card that they can make a personal appointment in Fairy Godmother's office, Donkey starts walking in the direction of the office. But how did he know where to go, if he's never been there before, and the card didn't say where it is?
Corrected entry: When Shrek and Fiona have just arrived to the palace and are talking to the King and Queen in front of everyone, in the short shots, Shrek's size is just a few inches taller than the Queen's. But in a wide shot, you can see that he is huge in comparison with the King and Queen.
Corrected entry: Fairy Godmother shows Shrek that ogres don't live happily ever after by reading the endings of fairy tales. Why is she reading in middle of each book, instead of the last page?
Correction: She knows all the fairy tales already, she doesn't need to read them. She's just opening them for dramatic effect.
Corrected entry: For Shrek, Fiona and Donkey it's a very long trip from the swamp to "Far Far Away", yet the mice etc. manage to get there quite fast after Shrek, Donkey and Puss were arrested.
Correction: The dragon flew them there. It also explains how they got to the top of the tower where Shrek and co. are being held.
Corrected entry: At the end of the first movie, we see the 3 Blind Mice turned into horses and a driver, but when they leave for Far Far Away, we see the mice and the horses at the same time.
Correction: My guess is, the mice changed back at some point, and that there's a different set horses and driver later, as the mice are helping with the house-sitting and are important to the movie later on.
Corrected entry: When Puss In Boots flicks the Gingerbread Man to Pinocchio he is on the back of Donkey. But when Shrek jumps on the back of Donkey he is not there, then Puss In Boots suddenly jumps down to fight the guards.
Corrected entry: When Shrek enters the castle via the drawbridge, he enters on the right side (if viewed from outside the castle)and grabs the chain for the drawbridge. When he slides down the chain inside the gatehouse, he is on the opposite side of the entryway.
Correction: The momentum from his swinging down seems more than enough to launch him to the other side of the door, and it actually seems to be more practical to do that then swing back around on the chain, around the wall, and back on the chain where it leads out of the hole and down to the ground.
Corrected entry: When Shrek is in bed with Fiona, he looks up and sees a picture of Sir Justin (Timberlake). This was possibly added because Cameron Diaz was (at the time of filming) dating pop singer Justin Timberlake.
Correction: Cameron Diaz said in a TV interview that the poster was entirely coincidence and that she and Justin had not started dating yet when that scene was being worked on.
Corrected entry: It is in the evening when Shrek takes the Happily Ever After potion and falls asleep. The next morning he reads on the bottle that for the potion to work he needs to be kissed by his true love by midnight on the day he takes the potion so he goes to find Fiona, but hasn't midnight already passed?
Correction: The potion doesn't kick in immediately, but sometime during the night. Most likely, its effects start at one midnight, giving the imbiber exactly 24 hours to get the kiss. That would seem suitably fairy-tale-ish.
Corrected entry: So how exactly was the Fairy Godmother's plan supposed to work? If everything worked out just fine for her, Fiona would still switch back to an ogre at midnight (lacking the kiss with the other potion drinker Shrek), certainly not the form of her Charming would love to have on his side. (Okay, could be another plot hole covering potion to fix that ;)).
Correction: The aim of the Godmother's plan is for Fiona to love Charming. Fiona being an ogre isn't the problem, it's that she loves Shrek - Godmother's entire plan is to change that. Once Fiona loves Charming, then the Godmother can work on changing her back to human form, but, during the events of the film, that's a secondary consideration. The love potion may automatically make him her true love anyway, killing two birds with one stone.
Corrected entry: Although the second movie takes place not long after the first, Shrek has grown a startling amount of chest hair. In the opening sequence of the first movie, Shrek is rather hairless as he bathes. However, in the castle in Far Far Away, he walks around shirtless, but definitely not hairless.
Correction: Maybe ogre's hair grows faster than human's hair. This is not a mistake.
Corrected entry: Why does Shrek have hair in his human form? I know it makes him look better but, shouldn't he be bald as in the ogre form? Fiona for example, maintains her hair in ogre and human shape.
Correction: The method for changing them to human form is not the same as was used to put the curse on Fiona in the first place. It was not even a "Human" potion. It was a "Happily Ever After" potion. Aparently the potion felt that they should both be beautiful (ie. human) in order to live happily ever after. That would include giving Shrek hair in his human form as it is the socially accepted norm of "beautiful".
Corrected entry: Shrek, Gingerbread Man, Donkey, and Puss go to the Muffin Man on Drury Lane to create the huge Gingerbread Man and make him that same evening. Shouldn't the Muffin Man on Drury Lane be all the way back in the Kingdom of DuLoc?
Correction: The Muffin Man was mentioned in Shrek 1, but didn't actually appear. The location of Drury Lane was never stated. Since many of Far Far Away's residents are famous (such as Cinderella), it's perfect possible that the Muffin Man is famous too and the Gingerbread Man and others in DuLoc would have heard of him, and the name of his street, even though he didn't live in DuLoc.
Corrected entry: After Shrek has transformed to a human, he goes to the castle to tell Fiona he loves her. When Fiona is talking to Donkey (as a steed) outside the castle, Puss is not on Donkey's back until Puss says, "Anything for you, baby."
Correction: We can't see Donkey's back from Fiona's perspective - it's always obscured by his head.
Corrected entry: The Fairy Godmother doesn't pay for the fast food she orders.
Correction: The employees address her by her name, showing that they know her. She could very well have an account there, or just gets food for free due to her status.
Corrected entry: The King sounds sarcastically shocked when he says "How original, an ogre that lives in a swamp." Yet, he already knew that Shrek did live in a swamp, because he sent Fiona and Shrek the invitation. The messenger wouldn't have known where to send the invitation unless for the King's instructions.
Correction: The king is just being sarcastic, he wasn't really shocked at all.
Corrected entry: When Puss In Boots flicks the Gingerbread Man to Pinocchio on the way into the castle, both Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Man disappear until the end of the film.
Correction: Both Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Man are present at the showdown with the Fairy Godmother; the former is turned into a real boy and back again during the melee, and the latter catches the Godmother's wand and throws it to another character.
Corrected entry: At the end when Shrek and Fiona decide not to remain in human form, when the clock hits midnight, the bell chimes 13 times.
Corrected entry: Watch when the Fairy Godmother puts the new dress on Fiona. The wind blows up the dress and she tries to hold it down. A reference to Marylin Monroe.
Correction: Too obvious to be trivia.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when Shrek and Fiona change back to ogres, their clothing changes with them. Earlier in the movie, it was established that they would keep the same clothing during their transformation.
Correction: It only establishes that their clothes would stay the same when transforming into a human, it did not say that they will stay the same when they transform back.
Correction: Donkey probably didn't know what direction he was heading, but was just eager to go off on another adventure.
Jason Sieberg