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“The trick is authenticity and not condescending to your audience,” he continues.

We all deal with alienation, bigotry and love. The new film is about dealing with the in-laws, so it hits on a lot of levels. We also wanted it to be just as entertaining for the parents as the kids. “We wanted to take the story to another level, create new characters and new themes. “We didn’t want to rest on our laurels,” explains Adamson. Considering the fact that Fiona is returning very much a “changed” woman–er, ogre–the trip is fraught with anxieties and the eventual meeting is imbued with all the tension, humor and awkwardness of 1967’s interracial romance Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Now post-honeymoon, Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is heading off to the land of Far, Far Away with his bride, the Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz), to finally meet the in-laws. Three years later, the sequel’s narrative finds our newlyweds pretty much where we left them.

Shrek’s world shimmers magically on the screen, an intricately crafted pseudo-photo reality that skews real life without losing its fragile, delicate nuances–sunlight piercing a drop of dew, cool mist drifting slowly through an early morning wood. Thanks to the help of computers systems as much as five times faster than those used on the original film, along with the gift of a massive budget and a “room to breathe” shooting schedule, what the team behind Shrek 2 has achieved is nothing short of marvelous. “We thought the velvet would take 2 weeks to render,” he sighs, “but in the end it took three months.”ĭespite such difficulties, however, all the hard work, precision and diligence appears well worth it. The animated-hair request set off a chain of events that resulted in three months of intensive labor and a custom-made software program with the curious moniker “Wig System Program.” According to Adamson, “long hair” proved to be a nearly insurmountable challenge, but other visual obstacles included “folds on clothing and velvet.”Īt the mere sound of the word “velvet,” the director literally cringes.