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Shrek 2
Shrek 2 poster.jpg
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Directed by
Screenplay by
Story byAndrew Adamson
Based on Shrek!
by William Steig
Produced by
Starring
Edited by
  • Michael Andrews
  • Sim Evan-Jones
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Production
companies
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures [1]
Release dates
  • May 15, 2004 (2004-05-15)(Cannes)
  • May 19, 2004 (2004-05-19)(United States)
Running time
92 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States [1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150 million [3]
Box office$935.5 million [4]

Shrek 2 is a 2004 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon (in Vernon's feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Adamson, Joe Stillman, and the writing team of J. David Stem and David N. Weiss, it is the sequel to Shrek (2001) and the second installment in the Shrek film series. The film stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, who reprise their respective voice roles of Shrek, Donkey, and Princess Fiona. They are joined by new characters voiced by Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Rupert Everett, and Jennifer Saunders. Shrek 2 takes place following the events of the first film, with Shrek and Donkey meeting Fiona's parents as the zealous Fairy Godmother, who wants Fiona to marry her son Prince Charming, plots to destroy Shrek and Fiona's marriage. Shrek and Donkey team up with a sword-wielding cat named Puss in Boots to foil her plans.

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Development began in 2001, and following disagreements with producers, the first film's screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were replaced with Adamson. The story was inspired by Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and new animation tools were utilized to improve the visual appearance of each character, particularly Puss in Boots. The lead actors also received a significant bump in salary to $10 million, which at the time was among the highest contracts in their respective careers. Like its predecessor, Shrek 2 also parodies other films based on fairy tales and features references to American popular culture. [5] [6] [7] The film is dedicated to the memory of Shrek creator William Steig, who died on October 3, 2003, eight months before the film was released.

Shrek 2 premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2004, where it competed for the Palme d'Or, and was released in theaters on May 19, by DreamWorks Pictures. Met with highly favorable reviews like its predecessor, the film grossed $935 million worldwide. 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. [8] [9] It went on to become the highest-grossing film of 2004 [10] and the sixth-highest-grossing film overall 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. [11] The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, and its associated soundtrack charted in the Top 10 on the US Billboard 200. Two sequels— Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010)—had soon followed. The film's character Puss in Boots has also received his own series of spin-off media—Puss in Boots (2011), The Adventures of Puss in Boots (2015–2018) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)—following his debut.

Plot

Newlyweds Shrek and Princess Fiona return from their honeymoon to find they have been invited by Fiona's parents to a royal ball to celebrate their marriage. Fiona convinces a reluctant Shrek that they should accept, and they travel to the kingdom of Far Far Away with Donkey in tow. 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. Shrek worries that he is losing Fiona, particularly after finding her childhood diary and reading that she was once infatuated with Prince Charming.

Harold is secretly reprimanded by the Fairy Godmother, who had arranged with Harold for her son Prince Charming to marry Fiona. She orders Harold to get rid of Shrek or else lose his own happy ending, so Harold arranges for Puss in Boots to assassinate the ogre.

Unable to defeat Shrek, Puss reveals that he was paid by Harold and offers to be an ally. Shrek, Donkey, and Puss sneak into the Fairy Godmother's factory and steal a "Happily Ever After" potion that Shrek thinks will make him good enough for Fiona. He and Donkey drink the potion, lament that nothing seems to be happening, and then suddenly fall asleep. Back in Far Far Away, Fiona prepares to find Shrek so they can return home, but she too falls asleep.

The next morning, Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona awaken to find that the two ogres are now humans, and Donkey is a white stallion. In order to make the change permanent, Shrek must kiss Fiona by midnight. Shrek, Donkey, and Puss return to the castle; however, the Fairy Godmother, having discovered the theft, has sent Charming to pose as human Shrek and win Fiona's love. At the Fairy Godmother's urging, Shrek leaves the castle, believing that the best way to make Fiona happy is to let her go.

Fiona is skeptical of Prince Charming; therefore, to ensure the two will wed, the Fairy Godmother gives Harold a love potion to put into Fiona's tea. This exchange is overheard by Shrek, Donkey, and Puss, who are arrested by the royal knights after Donkey inadvertently exposes them. While a royal ball begins, the fairy tale creatures whom Shrek and Donkey had met during their previous adventure arrive at the dungeon and rescue the trio. They all storm the castle with the help of a monstrous living gingerbread man created by the Muffin Man.

Shrek fails to prevent Charming from kissing Fiona, but instead of falling in love, Fiona headbutts him. Harold reveals that he swapped Fiona's tainted teacup with his own, unable to go through with the plot. Enraged, the Fairy Godmother tries to strike Shrek with a spell from her magic wand. Harold jumps in front of it, reverting into the Frog Prince; some of the spell ricochets off his armor, knocking the Fairy Godmother backwards. Appearing unharmed at first, the Fairy Godmother furiously aims her wand at Shrek again, but before she can deliver the final blow, the spell causes her to explode and evaporate into bubbles.

With the Fairy Godmother gone, Harold apologizes, admitting to using the "Happily Ever After" potion years earlier to gain Lillian's love. He approves Shrek and Fiona's marriage, while Lillian assures Harold that she still loves him. As the clock strikes midnight, Fiona declines Shrek's offer to remain human, and they revert into ogres, while Donkey also returns to normal. In a mid-credits scene, Dragon, who had previously married Donkey, reveals that they now have several dragon-donkey hybrid babies.

Voice cast

Cameos

Production

In 2001, soon after the original Shrek proved to be a hit, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz negotiated an upfront payment of $10 million each for voicing a sequel to the film. [12] [13] [14] [15] This pay increase represented a significant rise from the $350,000 salary that each of the three were paid for the first film. [14] According to Jeffrey Katzenberg, the executive producer of Shrek 2 and a co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures, who led the negotiations, the payments were probably the highest in the actors' entire careers. [12] Each of the actors were expected to work between 15 and 18 hours in total. [12] The film was produced with a $70 million budget. [16] [17]

Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the screenwriters of the first Shrek film, insisted that the sequel be a traditional fairytale, but after disagreements with the producers, they left the project and were replaced by director Andrew Adamson. His writing of Shrek 2 was inspired by the 1967 comedy-drama film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , and was completed with the help of the film's co-writers Joe Stillman (one of the other writers from the first film), J. David Stem and David N. Weiss, and co-directors, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, whom the latter two spent most of the film's production duration in Northern California while Adamson spent most of his time with the film's voice actors in Glendale, California. [18]

DreamWorks began production of Shrek 2 in 2001, [19] before the first Shrek film was completed. [18] The studio added more human characters to the film than there were in its predecessor and improved character appearance and movement with the use of several new animation/rendering systems. [20] In particular, Puss in Boots necessitated development of a whole new set of film production tools to handle the appearance of his fur, belt, and hat plume; Puss' fur especially required an upgrade to the fur shader. [21] All of the character setup was completed in the first three years of production. [18]

In an early version of Shrek 2, Shrek abdicated the throne, and called for a fairy tale election. Pinocchio's campaign was an "honesty" campaign, while Gingy's was a "smear" campaign. Adamson said that although this plot did have many funny ideas, it was also too overtly satiric and political, and considered "more intellectual than emotional". [22] Shrek 2 also appears much darker in terms of lighting when compared to the original film. Designers reportedly took inspiration from 19th century French illustrator and engraver Gustav Doré to improve the film's richness of detail and setting. 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...The design of Shrek is always a twist on reality anyway, so we tried to [pack] as much detail and interest as we could in the imagery." [23]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Shrek 2 was composed solely by Harry Gregson-Williams, who returned after composing the score for the first Shrek film, marking it as his fifth film with DreamWorks Animation. [18] The soundtrack reached the 8th position on the US Billboard 200 and 1st on the US Soundtracks ( Billboard ). [24] It also features two versions of the 1980s Bonnie Tyler hit "Holding Out for a Hero".

Release

In April 2004, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. [25]

Shrek 2 was originally scheduled for release on June 18, 2004. [26] The film was then moved forward from June 18, 2004, to May 21, 2004; however, due to "fan demand", it was released two days earlier from May 21, 2004, to May 19, 2004. [27] A day before the film went to theaters, the first five minutes were shown on Nickelodeon's U-Pick Live . [28]

Playing in 4,163 theaters over its first weekend in the United States, Shrek 2 was the first film with over 4,000 theaters in overall count. Over 3,700 theaters was its count for an opening day. [29]

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 Pictures in 2018.

The film was theatrically re-released in the United States for one week beginning on April 12, 2024 in celebration of its twentieth anniversary. [31]

Home media

Shrek 2 was released on VHS and DVD on November 5, 2004 [32] [33] and on Game Boy Advance Video on November 17, 2005. [34] It became one of the best-selling DVD releases of all time with over 37 million copies being sold. [35] A 3D-converted version of the film was released exclusively with select Samsung television sets on Blu-ray on December 1, 2010, along with the other three films of the series. [36] A non-3D version was released on December 7, 2010, as part of the Shrek: The Whole Story box set, [37] 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. [38] A stand-alone 3D Blu-ray version of the film was released on November 1, 2011. [39] 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.

Shrek 2 was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on November 22, 2022, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. [40]

Far Far Away Idol

Far Far Away Idol is a special feature on the DVD and VHS release based on American Idol and guest starring Simon Cowell. Taking place right after Shrek 2 ends, the short features characters from Shrek compete in a sing-off while being judged by Shrek, Fiona, and Cowell. [32]

After the performances, on the DVD release, the viewer gets to pick the winner. If any character besides Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, or Puss is selected, an alternate ending plays where Cowell would refuse to accept the winner and proclaim himself the victor, leaping onto the judging table and performing his "own" rendition of "My Way". At the end of the VHS release, it gives a link to a website where the viewer can vote for their favorite to determine the ultimate winner. [32] DreamWorks Animation announced on November 8, 2004, three days after the DVD and VHS release, that with 750,000 votes cast, the "winner" of the competition was Doris. [41]

Reception

Box office

The film opened at No. 1 with a Friday-to-Sunday total of $108 million, and $129 million since its Wednesday launch, from a then-record 4,163 theaters, for an average of $25,952 per theater over the weekend. At the time Shrek 2's Friday-to-Sunday total was the second-highest opening weekend, only trailing Spider-Man 's $114.8 million. In addition, Saturday alone managed to obtain $44.8 million, making it the highest single-day gross at the time, beating Spider-Man's first Saturday gross of $43.6 million. [8] The film remained at No. 1 in its second weekend, expanding to 4,223 theaters, and grossing another $95.6 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, narrowly beating out the $85.8 million four-day tally of new opener The Day After Tomorrow . It spent ten weeks in the weekly Top 10, remaining there until July 29, and stayed in theaters for 149 days (roughly twenty-one weeks), closing on November 25, 2004. The film was released in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2004, and topped the country's box office for the next two weekends, before being dethroned by Spider-Man 2 . [42]

The film grossed $441.2 million domestically (US and Canada) and $487.5 million in foreign markets for a total of $935.3 million worldwide, [3] making it the highest-grossing film of both 2004 [43] and in its franchise. [44] This also puts the film at 14th on the all-time domestic box office list [45] and 42nd on the worldwide box office list. [46] The film sold an estimated 71,050,900 tickets in the US. [47]

The film also took away the highest worldwide gross made by an animated feature, which was before held by Finding Nemo (2003), [48] although the latter still had a higher overseas-only gross. [49] With DVD sales and Shrek 2 merchandise estimated to total almost $800 million, the film (which was produced with a budget of $150 million) [3] is DreamWorks' most profitable film to date.

Shrek 2 remained the highest-grossing animated film worldwide until the release of Toy Story 3 (2010), [11] and held the record for the highest-grossing animated film at the North American box office until the release of Finding Dory (2016) [50] [51] as well as the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film at this box office until the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023. It also remained the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film worldwide until it was surpassed by Despicable Me 2 in 2013.

Critical response

Shrek 2 has an approval rating of 89% based on 239 professional reviews on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 7.7/10. Its critical consensus reads, "It may not be as fresh as the original, but topical humor and colorful secondary characters make Shrek 2 a winner in its own right." [52] Metacritic (which uses a weighted average) assigned Shrek 2 a score of 75 out of 100 based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [53] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [54]

Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, saying it is "bright, lively, and entertaining", [55] and Robert Denerstein of Denver Rocky Mountain News called it "sharply funny". [56] James Kendrick of QNetwork praised the plot, calling it "familiar, but funny". [57] J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader called it "unassailable family entertainment", and similar to the first film. [58] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post called it "better and funnier than the original". [59]

Though he wrote that it is not as good as the first film, Kevin Lally of Film Journal International described it as "inventive and often very funny". [60] Peter Rainer of New York magazine, however, stated the film "manages to undo much of what made its predecessor such a computer-generated joy ride." [61]

Sean Naughton of Complex described it as "one of the best-animated sequels ever". [62]

Accolades

Shrek 2 was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. [63] It won five awards at the 31st People's Choice Awards: Favorite Animated Movie, Favorite Animated Movie Star for "Donkey" (Eddie Murphy), Favorite Movie Comedy, and Favorite Movie Villain for "Fairy Godmother" (Jennifer Saunders), and Favorite Sequel. [64] It also won a Teen Choice Award in the category of Choice Award Choice Movie – Comedy. [65] The film was nominated at the 3rd Visual Effects Society Awards in the category of "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture." [66]

Along with Shark Tale , the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to The Incredibles . [67] One of the film's songs, "Accidentally in Love" received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, [67] Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, [68] and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. [69]

In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated the film for its Top 10 Animation Films list. [70]

Awards [71]
AwardCategoryNameOutcome
Academy Awards Best Animated Feature Andrew Adamson Nominated
Best Original Song "Accidentally in Love"Nominated
Annie Awards [72] Best Animated Feature Andrew Adamson Nominated
Music in an Animated Feature Production Harry Gregson-Williams Nominated
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Conrad Vernon Nominated
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Antonio Banderas Nominated
Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, J. David Stem, and David N. WeissNominated
Awards Circuit Community AwardsBest Animated Feature FilmRunner-up
BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Film Music AwardHarry Gregson-WilliamsWon
BMI Film & TV Awards Most Performed Song from a Film"Accidentally In Love"Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Animated FeatureNominated
Best Song "Accidentally In Love"Nominated
Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury & Conrad VernonNominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Animated Film Nominated
Gold Derby AwardsBest Animated FeatureNominated
Best Original Song Counting Crows Nominated
Golden Schmoes AwardsMost Overrated Movie of the YearNominated
Best Animated Movie of the YearNominated
Coolest Character of the Year (for "Puss in Boots")Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards Best Animation/Family (for "Ant Farm, The")Nominated
Grammy Awards Best Compilation Soundtrack Album Andrew Adamson, Christopher Douridas & Michael OstinNominated
Best Song David Bryson, Adam Duritz, David Immerglück, Matthew Malley & Dan Vickrey for "Accidentally In Love"Nominated
Hollywood Film AwardsAnimation of the YearAndrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury & Conrad VernonWon
International Film Music Critics Association Best Original Score for a Comedy FilmHarry Gregson-WilliamsNominated
International Online Cinema AwardsBest Animated FeatureAndrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury & Conrad VernonNominated
Best Original Song"Accidentally In Love"Nominated
Irish Film & Television Academy Best International ActressCameron DiazNominated
Italian National Syndicate of Film JournalistsBest Foreign DirectorAndrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury & Conrad VernonNominated
Italian Online Movie AwardsBest Animated Feature FilmWon
Best Original Song"Accidentally in Love"Nominated
Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing in Feature Film – AnimatedRandy Thom, Dennis Leonard, Jonathan Null, Marilyn McCoppen, David C. Hughes, Scott Guitteau, J.R. Grubbs Ewa Sztompke, Larry Oatfield, Andre Fenley & Mark Jan WlodarkiewiczNominated
MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Comedic PerformanceAntonio BanderasNominated
MTV Movie Awards, Mexico Favorite Voice in an Animated Film Eugenio Derbez as the voice of Donkey in Latin AmericaWon
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite MovieNominated
Favorite Animated FilmNominated
Favorite Voice From An Animated Movie Mike Myers Nominated
Favorite Voice From An Animated Movie Eddie Murphy Nominated
Favorite Voice From An Animated Movie Cameron Diaz Nominated
Online Film & Television AssociationBest Animated Picture Aron Warner, David Lipman & John H. Williams Nominated
Best Music, Original Song Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immerglück, Matthew Malley, David Bryson & Daniel Vickers (for "Accidentally in Love")Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Best Animated Film Nominated
People's Choice Awards Favorite Movie ComedyWon
Favorite SequelWon
Favorite Animated MovieWon
Favorite Animated Movie StarEddie MurphyWon
Favorite Movie Villain Jennifer Saunders Won
Favorite Motion PictureNominated
Phoenix Film Critics Society AwardsBest Original Song"Accidentally in Love"Won
Russian National Movie Awards Best Blockbuster MovieWon
Satellite Awards Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad VernonNominated
Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Animated/Computer GeneratedWon
Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie – ComedyWon
Choice Movie of the SummerNominated
Visual Effects Society [73] Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion PictureAntonio Banderas
Raman Hui 		Nominated
World Soundtrack Awards Soundtrack Composer of the YearHarry Gregson-WilliamsNominated
Best Original Soundtrack of the YearHarry Gregson-WilliamsNominated
Best Original Song Written for FilmCounting CrowsNominated
Young Artist Awards Best Family Feature Film – AnimationNominated

Other media

Video games

Novels

Shrek 2: The Movie Storybook was published by Scholastic in 2004. [76] It was written by Tom Mason and Dan Danko and illustrated by Michael Koelsch. [77]

Sequels and spin-offs

Shrek 2 has two sequels; they are Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After . 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. On November 6, 2018, it was reported by Variety that Chris Meledandri had been tasked to reboot both Shrek and Puss in Boots, with the original cast potentially returning. [78] [79] Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was released on December 21, 2022. It is a sequel rather than a reboot. A fifth Shrek film is in development.

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Scared Shrekless is a 26-minute computer-animated Halloween horror comedy television special, set shortly after the events of Shrek Forever After, that premiered on the American television network NBC on October 28, 2010. Scared Shrekless was based on the children's book Shrek!, by the writer William Steig, which was published on October 17, 1990.

<i>Shrek Forever After</i> 2010 DreamWorks Animation film

Shrek Forever After is a 2010 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig. Directed by Mike Mitchell and written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, it is the sequel to Shrek the Third (2007) and the fourth installment in the Shrek film series. The film stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, and Julie Andrews reprising their voice roles from the previous films, with Walt Dohrn joining the cast. The plot follows Shrek who struggles with the responsibilities and stress of being a domesticated family man, yearning for the days he was once feared and lived in solitude. He is tricked by Rumpelstiltskin into signing a contract that leads to disastrous consequences.

<i>Puss in Boots</i> (2011 film) DreamWorks Animation film

Puss in Boots is a 2011 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is a spin-off of the Shrek film series and its fifth installment, rather than an adaptation of the fairytale "Puss in Boots". The film was directed by Chris Miller from a screenplay by Tom Wheeler and a story by Brian Lynch, Will Davies, and Wheeler, based on the character from Shrek 2 (2004) and inspired from the Puss in Boots fairy tale. It stars Antonio Banderas, alongside Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Amy Sedaris. The film follows the origin story of Puss in Boots (Banderas) during his adventure years before the events of Shrek 2. Accompanied by his friends, Humpty Dumpty (Galifianakis) and Kitty Softpaws (Hayek), Puss is pitted against Jack and Jill, two murderous outlaws, for ownership of three legendary magical beans that lead to a great fortune of Golden Eggs from the Great Terror, a gigantic Goose.

Since the early 2000s, DreamWorks Animation, an American animation studio, owned by NBCUniversal, has had an involvement in the creation and theming of amusement park rides and attractions. This article details the ventures of DreamWorks Animation in amusement parks.

<i>Puss in Boots: The Last Wish</i> 2022 DreamWorks Animation film

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a 2022 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel to the spin-off film Puss in Boots (2011) and the sixth installment and soft reboot of the Shrek film series, the film was directed by Joel Crawford, co-directed by Januel Mercado, and written by Paul Fisher, Tommy Swerdlow, and Tom Wheeler. Based on the character introduced in Shrek 2 (2004) and inspired by the fairy tale of the same name, the voice cast includes Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek reprising their respective roles as the titular character and Kitty Softpaws, with new additions to the cast including Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Kevin Mccann, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Anthony Mendez. Set after the events of Shrek Forever After (2010), the story follows Puss in Boots, who teams up with Kitty and Perrito to find the Last Wish of the fallen Wishing Star to restore eight of his nine lives. They race against other fairy tale characters seeking the same treasure, while a sinister wolf hunts Puss himself.

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