So far from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty unanimous:
Can an ogre live happily ever after? Can fairy tale characters be content with their fairy tale lives? Can an Oscar-winning animated success generate a successful sequel? To all these questions, “Shrek 2” is happy to answer yes, yes and yes.
A key reason for this accomplishment is that so much of the talent of the original has returned to the new “Shrek,” including one of its directors (Andrew Adamson), two of its writers (Adamson and Joe Stillman) and all three of its vocal stars: Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona and Mike Meyers as Shrek, the ogre that walks like a man. These are people who know how to make the trains run on time, and run on time they do.