Why's it so good? Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker were not on board for this one - Ken Finkleman, a Canadian writer who also penned Grease 2 that year, somehow bagged the gig - but this is underrated. Gap between sequel and original: 28 months Kate Thornton for Joan Rivers? Outrageous!īuy Shrek 2 now on Amazon 58. Glaring error: The practice of inserting celebrity cameos from news personalities, and then redubbing with locals in other territories, started here and it's wildly annoying.
And while some of the endless movie referencing works well ("Be gooooood"), there's so much of it that it becomes exhausting. How does it stack up to the original? It's not as good: there are far too many characters the plot, similarly, is needlessly overcomplicated and even Puss can't make up for the lack of a great villain (much as we enjoyed Everett's Charming).
The interplay between Puss and Donkey has become the principal reason to watch the series ("The position of annoying talking sidekick has already been taken!"), while Shrek and Fiona are reduced to playing straight men in the foreground. He's adorable, he's deadly and he goes nuts for catnip. Gap between sequel and original: 36 months Shrek 2ĭirected by: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon Read Empire 's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey review here.īuy Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey now with Amazon 59. Glaring error: It's on Death's part: clearly he spent so long mastering chess that he neglected his Battleship, Clue (aka Cluedo), NFL Super Bowl Electric Football and Twister. The inventive hellish tortures that the boys suffer are entertaining, as is their dude-ish stoner speak, and William Sadler's Death makes up for the lack of So-Crates jokes this time around. How does it stack up to the original? It's probably not quite as fun, but Keanu's hair is infinitely better, which should count for something.
and Ted 'Theodore' Logan (or Wyld Stallyns), an inspired riff on The Seventh Seal (see? It's cine-literate, this), a nod to A Matter Of Life And Death (again with the intelligence) and the original series of Star Trek. There's Heaven, Hell, Death himself (on bass) and the revelation that God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You. Why's it so good? There are Evil Robot Doubles.