DVD Review - SHREK 2

I bought Shrek 2 more for my 2-year-old son then myself. He enjoys all computer animated movies while traditional animated shows just don't hold his attention (Sponge Bob being the exception). I enjoyed the first one, but didn't regard it as a modern comedy classic like most people.
The plot starts immediatly after the first film ended. Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz), all green and "stout," return from their honeymoon and are invited to a kingdom far, far away to meet Fiona's parents. Insert script from "Meet the Parents." Along the way are Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas). Hijinks occur, Shrek and Fiona change to human (Donkey to a Stallion), and they're left with the decision whether to remain human or return to ogre. Similar moral choice as the first film. The biggest difference is Myer's Shrek doesn't seem to enjoy himself. In the first Shrek, he reveled in his Ogreness and was very funny, but here, even before abandoning said Ogreness comes into the plot, all he does is complain. The funniest parts are when minor characters from the first return to save the day including my favorite from Shrek 1, The Gingerbread Man (he even yells a good "not the gumb-drop buttons" in this movie also!). But my favorite in Shrek 2 was not Puss in Boots, as 99% of America will tell you, but Pinnochio. He steals every scene he's in. Also adding their vocal talents are John Cleese and Julie Andrews as the King and Queen, Jennifer Saunders as the antagonistic Fairy Godmother, and Rupert Everett as Prince Charming. Only Saunders gives a memorable performance, with Andrews giving no good lines and really nothing to do.
Shrek 2 was entertaining enough but is terribly overrated, especially when the DVD case proclaims it as "The #1 Comedy of All-Time!" Give me Pixar over this stuff any day.

The Sneaky Cheetah's Grade: B-