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?
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.
Corrected entry: In the scene near the beginning of the film when you see the sign "100 miles to far far away",later on in the forest you see another sign that says 100 miles...,but you can tell that they didn't travel a mile due to dramatic weather change.
Correction: Actually, there are several different signs...one for 'Far Away', one for 'Away' and one for 'Far Far Away', so there really isn't an error there.
Corrected entry: When Donkey, etc. are in chains, he says something about not being read his Miranda rights. Although it's common practice to read these rights upon arrest, it's not a must. As long as the Miranda rights are read before any interrogation or questioning takes place, there's no problem.
Correction: That may be true, but most citizens believe they are to be read upon arrest. The generalities of the law are more well known than the particulars.
Corrected entry: When Shrek, Fiona and Donkey first arrive in Far Far Away, and get a glimpse of the royal castle, we see that the Hollywood-style "Far Far Away" sign is to the left of the castle. Later, Fiona is on a balcony in the castle at night, and Fairy Godmother arrives - and we see the FFA sign on the hill to the right of the castle. This also occurs once more in a scene with Shrek later in the film.
Correction: You could see the sign to the left and the castle in the background so it makes sense that the sign is on the right because they are looking from the castle.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when Shrek and Fiona are in the "honeymoon house", Shrek carries fiona over the threshhold and takes out part of the frame (because Fiona is bigger than the frame of the door). In the next shot when Little Red Riding Hood knocks on the door and Shrek answers, the frame is intact.
Correction: The door frame has been "fixed" by the time Little Red Riding Hood shows up...you can see the cracks from the "repairs." This has been posted several times.
Corrected entry: When Shrek, Donkey and Puss In Boots are in the potion room and Shrek asks Puss to search for a potion on the upper shelves, Puss removes his sword, hat and boots. He later falls off the shelf and lands on the floor, with his boots on.
Correction: When he landed, he landed ON his boots that he took off previously.
Corrected entry: In the end sequence, there is a shot of someone stage diving. Shrek magically appears on stage to do a stage dive. We see him land on the dog and in the next shot, he is magically back on stage with everyone else.
Correction: You can see Shrek come back on to stage in the wide shot just after that. He dances very near the steps and could possibly just walk back up them.
Corrected entry: The Big Bad Wolf was at the castle when Prince Charming arrived looking for Fiona yet he failed to mention this to Fiona and Shrek when he is house sitting for them. A little heads up would have been nice.
Correction: In the first movie it is seen that many princes have tried to rescue Fiona... and failed. Tt's possible that even after Fiona is rescued that princes keep showing up to rescue her because they have not heard that she was already rescued.
Corrected entry: When Shrek changes from an ogre to a man, he has to find new clothes because his are too large. However, when he changes from a man back to an ogre, his old clothes return.
Correction: Fiona wishes to have the Shrek that she had before, which would include the old clothes.
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.
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