Thanks to a post by Daisyhead, I lost two hours today trying to escape the Viridian room.
I loved every minute of it. Thanks, Daisy.
Nailed it.
Jack Ingram calls this song “a door slam.”
What Makes You SayWhat makes you say the things you say
What did I do so wrong today
Where did you learn how to cut me so deep
When did I let you get so far away from me
And I know that we stood there and promised each other forever
God knows we’ve tried for so long now and nothing gets better
Loving you is all that I have ever known
But the truth hits and I know we’d be better off alone
J. Ingram/B. Robison
Ogre and Ogre, again
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.