{"id":489,"date":"2004-05-28T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T13:58:51","slug":"shrek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/shrek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We opened the 2004 summer movie season with <i>Shrek 2<\/i>, going with the office gang (Dan, Trevor and Stacy) after beer and dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxnwbrew.com\/\">NXNW<\/a>. <em>Shrek 2<\/em> isn&#8217;t the movie we would have chosen. In fact, we hadn&#8217;t even bothered to see <i>Shrek 1<\/i>. Yet we found ourselves being dragged to the sequel, though not before sharing a few scornful remarks. So we sceptics were surprised ourselves laughing out loud from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\"><i>Shrek 2<\/i> is fast-paced and clever&#8211;sort of an animated <i>The Princess Bride<\/i>. I liked it better than the two other animated features I&#8217;ve seen lately: <i>Finding Nemo<\/i> and <i>Lilo and Stitch<\/i>. Like <i>The Simpsons<\/i> it has enough gags, verbal and visual, happening in the periphery to make watching it over and over interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">Ebert says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/ebert1\/cst-ftr-shrek18f.html\">&#8220;<i>Shrek 2<\/i> is bright, lively and entertaining, but it&#8217;s no <i>Shrek.<\/i>&#8220;<\/a>. He is so unable to shake the ghost of the first movie from his review of the second, that I&#8217;m really, really glad I saw the second one first. And Ebert gives short shrift to my favorite character, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugo.com\/channels\/filmtv\/features\/shrek2\/antoniobanderas.asp\">Puss In Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bottom Line: Recommended for the whole family (even my Mom).<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly funny. Well, we were surprised.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom Line: Recommended for the whole family (even my Mom).<\/h4>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/shrek-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}