Computer animation helped make blockbuster films such as Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) ( Disney / Pixar ), Avatar ( 2009 ), Shrek 2 ( 2004 ) ( DreamWorks Animation ), and Cars 2 ( 2011 ) ( Disney / Pixar ).

He sang in a duet of his 1972 song " Changes " with Butterfly Boucher for the 2004 animated film Shrek 2.

Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

* The 20 highest-grossing films of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Spider-Man 3, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Finding Nemo, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Shrek the Third.

They have a larger role in Shrek 2.

At the BAFTAs, the only animated feature to be nominated for Best Film was Shrek, while 2 others-Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit-received nominations in Best British Film ( the latter won in its year ).

Captain Hook is a minor character in the film Shrek 2, playing " a little drop of poison " by Tom Waits on the piano in the " Poisoned Apple " tavern.

She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

* In Shrek 2 DVD bonus " Far Far Away Idol ", Pinocchio sing a part of Mr Roboto but voting for him will instead cause Simon Cowel to vote himself winner with Paul Anka's song " My Way ".

Simple Simon is a character in Shrek 2.

This depiction, along with a seemingly transgendered bartender ( who the crew deny on the DVD commentary as having any sort of gender confusion ) and Pinocchio's expansive nose in Shrek 2, raised the ire of some groups who objected to the film's sexual content, in what is billed as a children's film.

* Shrek 2 ( 2004 ), in the animated Far Far Away Idol DVD extra

It made a total of $ 795. 6 million worldwide, which made it the second highest-grossing film of 2004 behind Shrek 2.

It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs.

The closing credits for Shrek 2 noted: " In memory of William Steig, 1907 – 2003.

Sky Movies regularly sponsors the theatrical premieres of major film titles – such as Shrek 2, The Incredibles, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

DreamWorks asked the Pixies in early 2004 to compose a song for the Shrek 2 soundtrack.

She provided the singing voice for ' Princess Fiona ' in the movie Shrek 2.

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The popular computer-animated Shrek film series reversed many conventional roles found in fairy tales, including depicting the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood as a friendly misunderstood crossdresser ( apparently still wearing her grandmother's clothes ) and on good terms with the three little pigs.

** Rumpelstiltskin already made an earlier appearance in Shrek the Third as a member of the gang of fairy tale villains Prince Charming rounds up in an attempt to take over Far, Far Away.

* The White Rabbit appeared as a banished fairy tale creature in the original Broadway musical Shrek, based on the 2001 film.

Various cartoons from Bugs Bunny to Shrek have spoofed famous fairy tales, knowing that everybody is familiar with the original stories and will immediately laugh at every deviation.

It turns out that there was a semi-complex plan where the Prince Charming, not Shrek, was supposed to rescue Fiona and marry her.

She and Shrek then turn back into ogres, and Donkey ( who had turned into a white stallion ) turns back into a donkey.

Eight out of nine feature films made by Pixar between 2001 and 2011 have been nominated for the award and only two have lost ( Monsters Inc. lost to Shrek, and Cars lost to Happy Feet ).

When the latter passes away, Shrek sets out to find her cousin Arthur Pendragon ( or Artie ).

When Shrek finally arrived to rescue her, she tries to get him to act out the scene she always imagined would happen when her prince would come, though he ends up having to drag her away to escape the Dragon and her skeletons.

Fiona apologizes for her behavior, but she and Shrek begin a duel over whose childhood was worse ( Here Fiona reveals that she was sent away on Christmas Eve, angering Shrek, who thought he beat her when he said he was kicked out on his seventh birthday ).

One theory for this may be that Fiona started out as a human and therefore ages normally, while Shrek, being an ogre from the start, ages differently.

Fiona is extremely insightful, and she also has the skill of rallying other people, shown in Shrek 3 when her speech rallies the princesses to break out of the dungeons.

The production closed on January 8, 2011, to be replaced at the theatre by the original London production of Shrek the Musical.

The show was promoted heavily during NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and garnered above average ratings for the network, but the show received a negative response from TV critics, who considered it to be little more than a gimmick and a shill for other NBC and DreamWorks properties ( two early episodes extensively featured The Today Shows Matt Lauer and another featured Donkey-voiced by Eddie Murphy-from the DreamWorks movie Shrek and Shrek 2 ).

Not to be confused with Shrek

It should not be confused with the 2001 animated film Shrek.

Beginning with Shrek 2, all released films, other than some co-produced with Aardman, are expected to be produced in CG.

* May 2002: Universal announces that The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, and Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies will both be closed in the near future, confirming that Hanna-Barbera will be replaced by a Jimmy Neutron adventures ride, and Hitchcock by a Shrek 3-D show.

Donkey was having troubles in his relationship with Dragon as she was acting strangely, but he could not determine the cause ( later revealed to be because she was laying eggs ), and accompanied Shrek and Fiona to the Far Far Away kingdom but keeps on asking every second like what kids would say on long trips " Are we there yet?

After the duo worked together with their mission to stop her plans to force Fiona to engage with her son, Prince Charming, both return to their normal forms, though Donkey seemed to be quite disappointed at returning to his original form although Shrek told Donkey he still sees Donkey as a noble steed.

Donkey also proves to be highly intelligent, and helps Shrek find a loophole in Rumplestiltskin's contract, comparing Shrek's situation to The Twilight Zone.

Shrek responds that he is sick of not having his privacy respected and that he wishes everything as " back to the way they used to be ... when the world made sense ".

Shrek initially believes that the relationship between him and Fiona is still existent there but when she doesn't even recognise him, he finally accepts completely that the reality, he is in, is not his own and that Stiltskin has truly altered reality to be as if he never existed until now.

She is shocked and angry when Shrek reveals himself to be an ogre, but runs off to a nearby cave when the sun sets.

She is surprised that " True Love's Form " isn't as beautiful as she thought it would be, but Shrek still thinks she is beautiful.

However, in Shrek Forever After, her alternate self is shown to be aggressive, single-minded and driven at times.

She can also be heard as the singing voice of Snow White in the animated feature film Shrek the Third.