This is a list of trivia for Shrek 2.
Trivia[]
- In the Fairy Godmother's factory, some workers are putting potions bottles on a conveyer belt. One of the bottles is marked "Viagra".
- Antonio Banderas also provides the Puss in Boots' voice both in the Spanish and Latin America version, and even in Italian.
- Shrek is the first DreamWorks Animation film to become a franchise.
- Along with Shark Tale, this is the first time since 2000 that DreamWorks Animation releases two animated features in the same year.
- Shrek's human form intentionally resembles his voice actor, Mike Myers.
- There's a real Cameron Diaz burp during the dinner party scene.
- Jennifer Saunders performed all her own singing in the film.
- This was the first Dreamworks sequel ever nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
- Shrek is the second Computer-animated film to become a franchise, after Disney/Pixar's Toy Story.
- When Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey are leaving for Far, Far Away, Donkey starts singing "Rawhide." Eddie Murphy ad-libbed the version that was put into the film.
- When Mongo is hit by the warm milk, his roar is the same roar as the original Japanese Godzilla.
- Jennifer Saunders got a voice coach to help her sing for the Fairy Godmother's opening number.
- In one draft, Prince Charming was a lot more childish and immature and he frequently threw tantrums.
- Shrek's face is so expressive because it has 218 working muscles in it.
- John Cleese and Julie Andrews recorded most of their scenes together at the same time, an unusual practice for an animated film.
- Originally, the Dragon from the first film was to have a major role, and turn into a Pegasus when Donkey drank the potion.
- This is the first film to have a release of over 4,000 theaters in the USA.
- The Gingerbread Man's legs have been re-attached with little bands of frosting.
- This is the first DreamWorks movie to use the new DreamWorks Animation logo.
- This is the last Shrek film to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.
- It is also the only sequel from DreamWorks Animation to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, Beginning with Shrek the Third, their sequels will be distributed by Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, or Universal Studios.
- Last Shrek film to be released on VHS.
- Over 300 Hewlett Packard workstations were employed in the making of the film.