They'll none of them be missed

[venta]

Having promised my housemate that I'd take him to the pictures if he was good, I went to see Shrek 2 again last night.

And between us, we started a list of references to other films contained therein. Anyone else want to join in ?


Specific films referenced (rather than use of generic movie clichés):

Arriving in Far, Far Away - Beverley Hills Cop
Fairy Godmother singing - The Fabulous Baker Boys
A giant, stupid thing called Mungo - Blazing Saddles
Three friends (including a fencing Spaniard) planning to storm the castle to prevent the Princess ending up with the wrong bloke - The Princess Bride
Puss carving 'P' on a tree - The Mask Of Zorro
The final scene of people dancing on the stage - The Fifth Element

Some of these I only have Andy's word for, as I haven't seen the films in question.

Comments

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Brain Shot.

I know there's hordes more but damned if I can think of any. I'll get back to you.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

1. Ring flying up in the air and landing on Fiona's finger is from The Fellowship Of The Ring.
2. Rolling around in the surf is from From Here To Eternity.
3. I'm fairly sure I saw Cimtiere and Lumiere from Beauty And The Beast (Disney) in the Fairy Godmother making furniture dance sequence.

Arguably the huge Mungo thing also referenced Ghostbusters.

There was quite a few more, but I'll have to see it again.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Desperado, the shot where we first meet Puss and all we see are the eyes.

Not a film but...

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

When John Cleese's King character clutches his leg blaming an old crusades wound to distract attention from what he's doing, that's a reference to Fawlty Towers, where Basil used to do the same thing with a "war wound".

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Shrek hanging upside down from the ambush at the start, and getting kissed, upside down, by Fiona is a Spidey reference.

The whole dive under a door, oops, I forgot my hat routine gets done again.

The on-the-spot commentator at the start of the ball mentioned something along the lines of "the abs are fab".

Oh, and the bucket of water over Puss in the middle of the song is Flashdance.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Shrek!
Fiona!
Lilly!
Shrek!

Donkey!

[froglet.livejournal.com]

There's an aliens like bit where something bursts out of someone's clothing I think. Probably a list on IMDB (http://imdb.com)

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

The bit with Pinocchio being lowered by his strings into Shrek's prison is a Mission Impossible (or MI2, take your pick) reference.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I might try arguing for "flour, lots and lots of flour" referring to Neo's "Guns. Lots of guns" in The Matrix, but fear I may be getting a little tenuous here.

[chrisvenus]

STreetfighter 2 though a computer game is the only reference that I can think of that hasn't alreayd been mentioned.

At the beginning of the movie when they get attacked by bandits and shrek is dangling upside down by his foot fiona does a spinning bird kick (chun-li move) followed by a dragon punch (streetfighter signature move as used by ken and ryu) on the last guy.

I think this is a game that will best be played as a drinking game when the DVD comes out.

Whenever you spot a reference you shout it out and as long as you are right everybody takes a drink. If everybody thinks you're a muppet you down your drink.

Perhaps that might be a little too dnagerous though. :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I think there was a shot of a puddle with circular ripples in it just before the giant gingerbread man walks on screen. If that's true and I haven't invented it, it might be a Jurassic Park reference.

Also, I was getting a bit of a feeling of the Godzilla remake during the rest of that scene, but I haven't seen the movie, only trailers. It might just be that one giant monster rampaging around in a city is very much like another rather than because any particular shot was a match.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Having not read this all day to avoid spoilers we will now add...

"I'm melting, i'm melting..."
and
was Donkey just singing Rawhide or does the riding off in the back of the wagon happen? I haven't really seen any.

Walking through the potion factory wheeling a trolley being casual looked like Monsters Inc to me.

And does one of the fairy tale books tossed of the shelf being Pretty Woman count as a film reference?