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* ActorAllusion: Creator/AntonioBanderas voices Puss in Boots, a character whose clearly a parody of Literature/{{Zorro}}, a role also played by Banderas.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/AntonioBanderas voices Puss in Boots, a character whose who's clearly a parody of Literature/{{Zorro}}, a role also played by Banderas.
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* TheCastShowoff: Jennifer Saunders' comedic singing is put to good use in ''2''.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The animators put a "Sir Music/JustinTimberlake" poster over Fiona's bed, not realising Cameron Diaz was actually dating him in real life!

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The animators put a "Sir Music/JustinTimberlake" Justin" poster over Fiona's bed, not realising Cameron Diaz Creator/CameronDiaz was actually dating him Music/JustinTimberlake in real life!
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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene where Donkey is being pinned down by guards. One guard has his knee on Donkey’s neck as Donkey screams out “police brutality!” It’s PlayedForLaughs, but after the death of George Floyd it’s decidedly hard to watch.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene where Donkey is being pinned down by guards. One guard has his knee on Donkey’s neck as Donkey screams out “police brutality!” It’s PlayedForLaughs, but after the death of George Floyd it’s decidedly hard to watch.
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* CrossdressingVoices: In ''Shrek 2'', Doris is voiced by Larry King. In the Spanish dub, her voice is provided by sports journalist Michael Robinson.

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* CrossdressingVoices: In ''Shrek 2'', Doris is voiced by veteran TV interviewer Larry King. In the Spanish dub, her voice is provided by sports journalist Michael Robinson.
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** Prince Charming in early drafts was much more childish and prone to throwing tantrums.

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** Prince Charming in early drafts was much more [[Main/{{Manchild}} childish and prone to throwing tantrums.tantrums]].
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** The king was going to be naked for the first half of the movie as a {{homage}} to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', with his privates always covered by a SceneryCensor.

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** The king was going to be naked for the first half of the movie as a an {{homage}} to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', with his privates always covered by a SceneryCensor.



** The filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-form of Dragon as a pink winged mare. In the final movie, Dragon doesn't appear until TheStinger since they realized that [[StoryBreakerPower she would have made breaking Shrek, Donkey, and Puss out of jail and crashing the ball too easy]].

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** The filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-form After" form of Dragon as a pink winged mare. In the final movie, Dragon doesn't appear until TheStinger since they realized that [[StoryBreakerPower she would have made breaking Shrek, Donkey, and Puss out of jail and crashing the ball too easy]].
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/AntonioBanderas voices Puss in Boots, a character whose clearly a parody of {{Film/Zorro}}, a role also played by Banderas.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/AntonioBanderas voices Puss in Boots, a character whose clearly a parody of {{Film/Zorro}}, Literature/{{Zorro}}, a role also played by Banderas.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/AntonioBanderas voices Puss in Boots, a character whose clearly a parody of {{Film/Zorro}}, a role also played by Banderas.
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That’s the first film


* ThrowItIn: Cameron Diaz had been drinking coke before one recording session and burped at the end of one of her lines - which was then incorporated into Fiona's burp at dinner with her parents. Eddie Murphy then ad-libbed the "she's even nastier than you" line.
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** Creator/JenniferSaunders [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbM09QEcNE recorded lines]] as the Fairy Godmother [[WeWillMeetAgain promising to return]] in case the filmmakers desired to bring back her in any further installments. [[spoiler:However, it wasn't the case and the Fairy Godmother was killed off in the film.]]

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** Creator/JenniferSaunders [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbM09QEcNE recorded lines]] as the Fairy Godmother [[WeWillMeetAgain promising to return]] in case the filmmakers desired to bring her back her in any further installments. [[spoiler:However, it wasn't the case and the Fairy Godmother was killed off in the film.]]
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* BillingDisplacement:
** Upon rewatching, most viewers viewers will likely be surprised to see that Creator/JulieAndrews gets fourth billing instead of Creator/AntonioBanderas' iconic performance in the role that's blatantly the biggest in the cast excluding the first film's three returning leads.
** There's also Andrews getting higher billing that Creator/JohnCleese (billed sixth) when most of her scenes are shared with him while he has several without her, and his character is clearly the more important of the royal in-laws.
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* VoicesInOneRoom: Well, John Cleese and Julie Andrews recorded their lines together.

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* VoicesInOneRoom: Well, John Cleese and Julie Andrews recorded their lines together.

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* ActorAllusion: In the tie-in game, Creator/MichaelJGough voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.


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* CastingGag: In the tie-in game, Creator/MichaelJGough voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.

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* ActorAllusion: In the tie-in game, Creator/MichaelJGough voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.



* CastingGag: In the tie-in game, Creator/MichaelJGough voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.
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** One idea for the second film involved Shrek helping to turn Far Far Away into a democracy, with an election race between Pinocchio and Gingy that was rife with contemporary political satire. Co-director Andrew Adamson reportedly found this draft hilarious, but it was ultimately decided that the film needed more emotional depth, so this was scrapped in favour of the finished story.
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* ApprovalOfGod: David Bowie loved Butterfly Boucher's cover of his "Changes" for the movie, and happily recorded backing vocals for it.

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* ApprovalOfGod: David Bowie loved Butterfly Boucher's cover of his song "Changes" for the movie, and happily recorded backing vocals for it.
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* CastingGag: In the tie-in game, [[Creator/MichaelGoughVoiceActor Michael J. Gough]] voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.

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* CastingGag: In the tie-in game, [[Creator/MichaelGoughVoiceActor Michael J. Gough]] Creator/MichaelJGough voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The animators put a "Sir Music/JustinTimberlake" poster over Fiona's bed, not realising Cameron Diaz was actually dating him in real life!
* ApprovalOfGod: David Bowie loved Butterfly Boucher's cover of his "Changes" for the movie, and happily recorded backing vocals for it.



* MissingTrailerScene: Alternate footage of Prince Charming finding the Big Bad Wolf is seen in the first trailer, with the wolf reading a different magazine.

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* MissingTrailerScene: Alternate footage of Prince Charming finding the Big Bad Wolf is seen in the first trailer, with the wolf reading a different magazine.magazine (Pork Illustrated in the finished film, The New Porker in the trailer).


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* NoFlowInCGI: As hair is so difficult to animate, a wig maker assisted the animators in helping to animate Prince Charming's HairFlip.
* RefittedForSequel:
** The Fairy Godmother had been down in the cards for the first film, but got cut out.
** Sort of. Rupert Everett had been turned down as the voice of Gaston in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' - and used the performance in his audition of that for Prince Charming.
* SameLanguageDub: In the UK version of the film, Joan Rivers and Larry King are dubbed by Kate Thornton and Jonathan Ross (though the former two are still credited).
* ThrowItIn: Cameron Diaz had been drinking coke before one recording session and burped at the end of one of her lines - which was then incorporated into Fiona's burp at dinner with her parents. Eddie Murphy then ad-libbed the "she's even nastier than you" line.
* {{Tuckerization}}: The King and Queen are named after Harold and Lillian Michelson, because the [=DreamWorks=] animators loved them so much.
* VoicesInOneRoom: Well, John Cleese and Julie Andrews recorded their lines together.


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** "Accidentally In Love" by Counting Crows replaced a song recorded by Weezer that was deemed not to fit over the honeymoon montage. The song had to be carefully timed over visuals, which were already locked down and couldn't be changed.


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** Prince Charming in early drafts was much more childish and prone to throwing tantrums.
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* CastingGag: In the tie-in game, [[Creator/MichaelGoughVoiceActor Michael J. Gough]] voices Shrek. He's not the first green-skinned monster Gough has played, as he also voiced Gnasty Gnorc in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''.
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** Creator/JenniferSaunders [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbM09QEcNE recorded lines]] as the Fairy Godmother [[WeWillMeetAgain promising to return]] in case the filmmakers desired to bring back her in any further installments. [[spoiler:However, it wasn't the case and the Fairy Godmother was killed off in the film.]]
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* ActorAllusion:
** Puss, played by Creator/AntonioBanderas, ''is'' Zorro as a cat - right down to the trademark letter-carved-on-a-tree.
** King Harold makes a excuse about his old "crusade wound" acting up. As [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]], Creator/JohnCleese made a similar claim about an old war wound.
*** Surely, 'twas [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail only a flesh wound?]]
*** This also isn't the first time that Cleese has played [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess a frog in an animated film]]]].
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** The filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-form of Dragon as a pink winged Mare in ''Shrek 2''. In the final movie, Dragon doesn't appear until TheStinger since they realized that [[StoryBreakerPower she would have made breaking Shrek, Donkey, and Puss out of jail and crashing the ball too easy]].

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** The filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-form of Dragon as a pink winged Mare in ''Shrek 2''.mare. In the final movie, Dragon doesn't appear until TheStinger since they realized that [[StoryBreakerPower she would have made breaking Shrek, Donkey, and Puss out of jail and crashing the ball too easy]].

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* DeletedScene: Wiki/TheOtherWiki says that the filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-Form of Dragon as a pink winged Mare in ''Shrek 2''. They decided against it.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The king was going to be naked for the first half of the movie as a {{homage}} to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', with his privates always covered by a SceneryCensor.
** The filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-form of Dragon as a pink winged Mare in ''Shrek 2''. In the final movie, Dragon doesn't appear until TheStinger since they realized that [[StoryBreakerPower she would have made breaking Shrek, Donkey, and Puss out of jail and crashing the ball too easy]].
** The ending ball was going to be a costume ball, and the king was dressed as the Magic Mirror, [[spoiler:which would have reflected the Fairy Godmother's spell]] rather than the royal armor he wears in the final movie. Also, one idea for the FinalBattle involved the Fairy Godmother enchanting food to attack Shrek and company.
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* MissingTrailerScene: Alternate footage of Prince Charming finding the Big Bad Wolf is seen in the first trailer, with the wolf reading a different magazine.
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* {{Blooper}}: When Fiona knocks out Prince Charming with a headbutt, he's seen seconds later perfectly fine throwing the wand to the Fairy Godmother. You could argue that he recovered quickly, but then a few minutes later, he's seen getting up from the headbutt.

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* {{Blooper}}: When Fiona knocks out Prince Charming with a headbutt, he's seen seconds moments later perfectly fine throwing the wand to the Fairy Godmother. Godmother's wand back to her. You could argue that he recovered quickly, but then a few minutes later, he's seen getting up from the headbutt.headbutt, not to mention showing no reaction to [[spoiler: his mother's death.]]
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* ActorAllusin:
** Puss, played by Creator/AntonioBanderas, ''is'' Zorro as a cat - right down to the trademark letter-carved-on-a-tree.
** King Harold makes a excuse about his old "crusade wound" acting up. As [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]], Creator/JohnCleese made a similar claim about an old war wound.
*** Surely, 'twas [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail only a flesh wound?]]
*** This also isn't the first time that Cleese has played [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess a frog in an animated film]]]].
* {{Blooper}}: When Fiona knocks out Prince Charming with a headbutt, he's seen seconds later perfectly fine throwing the wand to the Fairy Godmother. You could argue that he recovered quickly, but then a few minutes later, he's seen getting up from the headbutt.
* CrossdressingVoices: In ''Shrek 2'', Doris is voiced by Larry King. In the Spanish dub, her voice is provided by sports journalist Michael Robinson.
* DeletedScene: Wiki/TheOtherWiki says that the filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-Form of Dragon as a pink winged Mare in ''Shrek 2''. They decided against it.
* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Creator/AntonioBanderas voices Puss in Boots in English and in both Spanish dubs, Latin American and European. Something interesting is that, while in English he speaks with an overt Spaniard accent, in the Spanish dubs he speaks with a somewhat exaggerated version of his natural accent from his hometown, Málaga, in southern Spain.
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