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This is, quite frankly, a profoundly horrible song. It opens with a wacky kazoolike guitar effect. That's the best part. But after one listen, the melody spins in your head like a relentless hamster wheel. Commissioned for the Shrek 2 sound track, it was designed to be the kind of sticky thing young children and their grandparents could enjoy together. That may shed some light on the line about strawberry ice cream, but it does not explain why a once respectable band consented to sing a song so sugary it would send the Archies into shock. This is catchier...
Nutritionist Marion Nestle stares in wonder at the latest bit of marketing wizardry to hit American sweetshops: sour green tamarind-flavored Shrek candies. She pops off the Shrek-shaped cap on a Crazy Hair confection and, after some initial befuddlement (of a kind no one under 12 would suffer), turns a dial on the bottom of the plastic tube. Sticky strands of chartreuse goo extrude through a nozzle and "grow" upward in apparent defiance of gravity. "Wow!" says Nestle, who has a deep appreciation for such ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains...
...Shrek 2, the altogether adorable sequel to the animated sensation of three years ago, the nice young couple is obliged to overcome many obstacles before gaining her family's acceptance of an ogre as son-in-law and a genial ending. Mostly the trouble stems from a Fairy Godmother who thinks her handsome, egomaniac son would be a much better mate for Fiona, but who goes to Shrek movies for the plot? God may or may not be in the details, but the best laughs surely...
...example, this film's most delightful new character is Puss In Boots (brilliantly voiced by Antonio Banderas). Hired by the King to slay Shrek but soon his ally, Puss vies with Donkey for the coveted role of "annoying talking animal." Striking a heroic pose, swishing his sword with menacing elan, he is suddenly undone by that most undignified of feline problems--a hair ball...
...cross-dressing secret; Joan Rivers does inane fashion commentary on the red carpet leading to a palace shindig; a dash to rescue the Princess is interrupted by corrupt cops who plant an illegal drug--Yikes! It's catnip--on Puss while tabloid TV covers the bust. The most basic Shrek joke--satirized modernity intruding on fairy-tale romance--is played in 100 variants, some of which will sail over the heads of the littlest kids in the audience (there's plenty else to keep them giggling) but will be very gratefully received by those on parental-guidance duty. This wonderfully...