The human characters in particular look like cheap knockoffs of the toys in the ''Toy Story'' movies. All of this gives the picture more visual warmth and richness, but in comparison to the most recent Pixar movies it still looks cold and stiff. The settings, especially the interiors of castle rooms and dim taverns, are lighted more realistically than in ''Shrek,'' and the flesh and fur, in their various hues, have a more lifelike texture. While this ''Shrek'' revives the raucous spirit and winking allusiveness of its predecessor, some elements of the animation have advanced noticeably. (Their first family meal is a bit like ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,'' but with an ogre.) Donkey of course tags along, now that his relationship with Dragon has hit the skids, and they are soon mixed up with a wily super-agentlike Fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders), whose spoiled and loutish frat-boy son, Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), was once betrothed to Fiona. She decides to reconcile with her parents (Julie Andrews and John Cleese) and to introduce them to her new husband. It seems that Fiona is the estranged princess of this land of high-end boutiques whose names seem more like sly product placements than actual jokes.
Whereas ''Shrek'' mocked the world of Disney (the former realm of the DreamWorks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg), the sequel, directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, widens its scope to Hollywood as a whole, here done up in medieval 3-D cartoon drag as a place called Far Far Away.
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The filmmakers have added a passel of new supporting characters, movie star voices and satiric targets.
For myself I accept ''Shrek 2'' for what it is - a slick and playful entertainment that remains carefully inoffensive beneath its veneer of bad manners - but I don't really love it. The lessons that DreamWorks derived (and distorted) from William Steig's sublimely dyspeptic picture book are reiterated: be yourself love yourself for who you are. The prickly main characters, who since the first ''Shrek'' opened in 2001 have become cuddly plush toys, have returned: the grumpy title character (the voice of Mike Myers) his ogre princess bride, Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and of course the splendidly annoying Donkey (Eddie Murphy). Like most sequels ''Shrek 2,'' which opens nationwide tomorrow, tries to compensate for potential lost novelty by taking everything people liked about the original and adding more.
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