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The first Shrek 2 reviews are starting to trickle in.

[QUOTE]While the story is lame, you cannot dislike this movie.
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"Shrek 2" again presents a world of sight gags, puns, anachronisms and satire within the confines of an off-center fairy tale filled with richly detailed characters and a vibrant sense of fun.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000511643 [/quote]You'll also probably want to check out this article about Shrek 2 at Cannes:
[quote]The 2001 computer-animated hit "Shrek" also played at Cannes, the first cartoon in 27 years to break into the main competition.
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"We have a series of movies ('Shark Tale,' 'Madagascar') coming that have been very much inspired by 'Shrek.' They are in sensibility that kind of movie in that they are somewhat irreverent, they are somewhat subversive. They're parodies, they're satire, they are very anthropomorphized, and they are best told in CG," Katzenberg said.
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Hand-drawn animation continues to thrive outside the United States with growing international interest in Japanese anime and with such smaller flicks such [sic] as last year's Cannes offering, "The Triplets of Belleville," a runnerup to "Finding Nemo" for the animation Academy Award.

DreamWorks' Katzenberg, who as a Disney executive in the 1980s and '90s oversaw the revival of the studio's animation division, said hand-drawn cartoons are simply awaiting another reinvention to inject "something fresh and new."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/15/cannes.ap/index.html [/quote]

The Shrek 2 reviews are finally rolling in.
Click on the blurb to see the entire review.

"Its cleverness and its good heart enable it to overcome a slow start, which is how all good fairy tales end."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Shrek 2 brims with perverse pleasures that show no respect for the rules of kiddie-cartoon form."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

"This sequel is above average in terms of energy, cleverness and production values. But the original computer-animated blockbuster was so far off the scale that it's hardly fair to expect this one to measure up."
-- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"Slick and playful entertainment that remains carefully inoffensive beneath its veneer of bad manners."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

"Like Toy Story 2 and the Lord of the Rings sequels, Shrek 2 is that rare adventure follow-up that doesn't let you down."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER

"A sequel as exhilarating and riotously funny as 2001's top-grossing original."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"As funny, sweet and engaging as the first film."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY

"The appeal of the characters and the abundance of cleverness in the telling will keep viewers grinning, if not always laughing, through most of the picture."
-- Todd McCarthy, VARIETY

"So gorgeously animated and so thoroughly entertaining for all ages that only an ogre would complain it's not quite as fresh as the original."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST

"A hilarious and heartwarming chip off the old lime-green block."
-- Dave Larsen, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

"Shrek 2 is bright, lively and entertaining, but it's no Shrek."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"A solid if not groundbreaking yarn."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Pretensions toward cohesion and character empathy are scuttled in favor of broad-barn gaggery."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE

"Not quite as sparkling as the first, but it gets nuttier as it goes along."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY