Shrek Forever After - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[chad]

The first DreamWorks Animation movie to be released after the studio's sale to Twentieth Century Fox was completed, though Paramount Pictures still handled the distribution for this and following five DreamWorks Animation movies, being Megamind (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Puss in Boots (2011), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), and Rise of the Guardians (2012).

[cameron]

This remains the only Shrek movie where Shrek is not seen getting kicked in the groin.

[tom]

This is the first Shrek movie not made by Pacific Data Images.

[darrell]

Rumpelstiltskin begins a line with the words "If music has charms to soothe the savage beast." Though this quote has been used many times, it is actually a misquote of the line "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak", (from "The Mourning Bride" (1697) by William Congreve). However, in the case of this movie, as it pertains to Shrek (an ogre), the misquote ("beast" rather than "breast") is, in fact, appropriate.

[ray]

Jon Hamm (Brogan), Craig Robinson (Cookie), Jayne Lynch (Gretched), Kristen Schaal (Pumpkin and Palace Witches), Mary Kay Place (Guard Witch), Meredith Vieira (Broomsy Witch), Kathy Griffin (Additional Voices), Lake Bell (Additional Voices), Mike Mitchell (Additional Voices), David Soren (Additional Voices), Chris Sanders (Additional Voices), Dean DeBlois (Additional Voices), Eric Darnell (Additional Voices), André Sogliuzzo (Additional Voices), and Ashley Boettcher (Additional Voices) only appeared in this Shrek movie.

[charlie]

Lake Bell's first time voice acting in a theatrical movie. Later she went on to voice Mona Lisa in Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), Chloe the Cat in the Secret Life of Pets film franchise, and Vanessa Fisk in the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film franchise.

[albert]

This is the first Shrek movie to be in 3-D.

[bryan]

In a teaser trailer, the martini Shrek is seen holding had a slug on the toothpick, but in the final movie, it was changed to an animal's eyeball.

[nina]

There were originally intentions of the first movie's main villain, Lord Farquaad, to still be alive, in the alternate world, where Shrek had never been born. John Lithgow was even announced to be appearing in this movie at one point, but he, along with other Shrek villains, only appeared during the post credit scene in the final movie.

[cassandra]

Rumpelstiltskin was recommended to Fiona's parents by King Midas, who, according to Greek legend, had wished for everything he touched be turned to gold. This lead to tragedy, as his own daughter was turned to gold, and he starved to death due to all of his food and drink being turned to gold.

[marc]

Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), John Cleese (King Harold), Dame Julie Andrews (Queen Lillian), Larry King (Doris), David P. Smith (Additional Voices), Greg Tiernan (Additional Voices), Kris Pearn (Additional Voices), Mark Moseley (Additional Voices), and Latifa Ouaou (Additional Voices) appeared in every Shrek movie since Shrek 2 (2004).

[christina]

Released the same season as another DreamWorks Animation movie, How to Train Your Dragon (2010) only two months after, making this DreamWorks Animation's shortest gap between the releases of DreamWorks Animation movies to date, since Antz (1998) and The Prince of Egypt (1998).

[victoria]

The only Shrek movie in which Prince Charming does not appear nor is mentioned.

[jesse]

This is not the Pied Piper's first appearance. He also appeared briefly in Shrek (2001). He can be seen when Shrek first finds all of the fairy tale creatures in his swamp, fluting dozens of rats. He looked different and was wearing red clothing instead of black.

[linda]

DreamWorks Animation's fifth movie to undergo a director change and script rewrites partway through production, in this case with Mike Mitchell taking over Andrew Adamson. The previous four had been: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), with Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook taking over Tim Johnson; Shark Tale (2004), with Bibo Bergeron taking over Aron Warner; Bee Movie (2007), with Simon J. Smith taking over Chris Miller; and Monsters vs Aliens (2009), with Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman taking over Greg Tiernan and Sean Bishop.

[jim]

Mike Myers (Shrek), Cameron Diaz (Fiona), Eddie Murphy (Donkey), Conrad Vernon (The Gingerbread Man), Cody Cameron (Pinocchio and The Three Pigs), Aron Warner (Wolf), Christopher Knights (The Three Blind Mice), Tom McGrath (Additional Voices), Chris Miller (Additional Voices), Sean P. Mullen (Additional Voices), Andrew Adamson (Additional Voices), David Cowgill (Additional Voices), Bill Farmer (Additional Voices), Debi Derryberry (Additional Voices), Danny Mann (Additional Voices), Cam Clarke (Additional Voices), and Frank Welker (Animal Vocals) worked on all four Shrek movies.