This also puts the film at 14th on the all-time domestic box office list [44] and 42nd on the worldwide box office list. At the Fairy Godmother's urging, Shrek leaves the castle, believing that the best way to make Fiona happy is to let her go. It scored the second-largest three-day opening weekend in United States history and the largest opening for an animated film at the time of its release. Shrek 2 is also DreamWorks Animation's highest-grossing film to date and the highest-grossing film released by DreamWorks Pictures, and it held the title of being the highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide until Pixar Animation Studios' Toy Story 3 surpassed it in 2010.

I don’t know ♪ Well, maybe I’m in love ♪ Think about it every time I think ‘bout it ♪ Can’t stop thinking ‘bout it How much longer will it take to cure this?According to production designer Guillaume Aretos, "There are a lot of medieval paintings and illustrations [and] my own influences, which are classical paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Remembering Shrek 2: How Kelly Asbury and team played around with the idea of a subversive Disney fairy tale". One of the film's songs, " Accidentally in Love" received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, [66] Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, [67] and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Turn a little faster ♪ Come on, come on ♪ The world will follow after ♪ Come on, come on ♪ Everybody’s after love ♪ So I said ♪ I’m a snowball running ♪ Running down into this spring that’s coming all this love ♪ Melting under blue skies belting out sunlight ♪ Shimmering love ♪ Well, baby, I surrender ♪ To the strawberry ice cream ♪ Never ever end of all this love ♪ Well, I didn’t mean to do it ♪ But there’s no escaping your love ♪ These lines of lightning mean we’re never alone ♪ Never alone, no, no ♪ Come on, come on ♪ Jump a little higher ♪ Come on, come on ♪ If you feel a little lighter ♪ Come on, come on ♪ We were once upon a time in love ♪ Hyah! Have Fiona drink this and she’ll fall in love with the first man she kisses, which will be Charming. In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures (owners of the pre-2005 DreamWorks Pictures catalog) [30] and transferred to 20th Century Fox before reverting to Universal Studios in 2018. The DVD release features two full-length commentary tracks, one by co-directors Conrad Vernon and Kelly Asbury, and a second by producer Aron Warner and editor Michael Andrews. A non-3D version was released on December 7, 2010, as part of the Shrek: The Whole Story box set, [36] and a stand-alone Blu-ray/DVD combo pack was released individually on August 30, 2011, along with the other two films of the series.Without warning, the potion transforms Shrek and Fiona into humans, and Donkey into a white stallion for the following morning.

The coaches are lined up as the cream of the crop pours out of them like Miss Muffet’s curds and whey. However, the Fairy Godmother, having discovered the theft, has sent Charming to pose as Shrek and win Fiona's love. Shrek 2 was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on November 22, 2022, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

They meet Fiona's parents, King Harold and Queen Lillian, who are shocked to see the ogres, with Harold particularly repulsed. At dinner, Shrek and Harold get into a heated argument, and Fiona, disgusted at their behavior, locks herself away in her room.

With the Fairy Godmother gone, Harold apologizes, admitting to using the "Happily Ever After" potion years earlier to gain Lillian's love, and approves Shrek and Fiona's marriage, while Lillian assures Harold that she still loves him. A spin-off film Puss in Boots was released on October 28, 2011, and focuses on the character of Puss in Boots, who was introduced in this film. Along with Shark Tale, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to The Incredibles. The film also took away the highest worldwide gross made by an animated feature, which was before held by Finding Nemo (2003), [47] although the latter still had a higher overseas-only gross.

to King Harold, using the same hostile tone Charming used earlier] He endures blistering winds and scorching desert! Shrek fails to prevent Charming from kissing Fiona, but instead of falling in love, Fiona headbutt him; Harold reveals that he swapped Fiona's tea that has the love potion with his tea. Recently, we've done several changes to help out this wiki, from deleting empty pages, improving the navigation, adding a rules page, as well as merging film infoboxes.