Shrek is angry because the king is angry. The king is angry that his little girl is an ogre, married an ogre, and will have ogre children. When Shrek and Fiona finally arrive at Far Far Away, they find themselves in a war with the king and queen. Shrek is tired of being discriminated against anyway, and wants to just sit back and relax in his swamp with his new ogre wife. He's afraid their ogre-ness will scare her parents off. Shrek isn't too fond on the idea of going. This time Shrek and Fiona have married and Fiona's royal parents have invited them to their kingdom of Far Far Away for a celebration. It seems that the three year gap helped Dreamworks create another original tale that had just as much adult-oriented humor as the first.
This usually happens if the sequel is rushed out the door in order to capitalize on the popularity of the first. This was surprising, because in my experience, sequels usually find themselves mired in a string of unfunny jokes, superfluous characters, and ridiculous plotlines.
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Instead Dreamworks took the high road and, like 'Toy Story 2,' was able to create as good of a movie as the first. With the first movie's heavy pop-culture references and jokes, 'Shrek 2' could have gotten pretty dumb, pretty fast. Never forget the dog.Three years later, we got the second installment in the 'Shrek' franchise. Somehow managed to get a lovely lady to marry him, and with her have two daughters. He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. with degrees in English and Communications. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. Or just click here to see a few more of the classic video variations on the theme. You can read all about its history and evolution in one of those remarkably detailed and obsessive essays that makes us love our fellow pop culture geeks.
When Castro finished his performance, persnickity judge Simon Cowell announced that the Buckley version is one of his all-time favorite songs, and then told Castro he’d been brilliant, quite likely saving his neck on the show for a few more weeks.
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Because slowly, over the past 20 years, almost by accident, “Hallelujah” became the sad standard of our times.Īn album track by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohenin 1985, covers by former Velvet Underground member John Cale, and then the late Jeff Buckleydragged it into the pop culture spotlight, where it’s served to highlight the sad parts of movies and TV shows from “Shrek” and “Scrubs” to “The OC” and “The West Wing.”
You won’t remember Jason Castro six months from now, but the song - “Hallelujah” - will probably stick with you ’til the day it’s played at your funeral. When Jason Castro, a kid you’d never heard of a few weeks ago, opened his mouth and started to sing on “American Idol” the other night, the first few notes sounded familiar.
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