Shrek 2 gets a working-over from the uber-critics at Film Threat. ("John Cleese...recreates the slightly befuddled old British guy he's been playing since the 1980s, while Julie Andrews frets passably...")

"The soundtrack deserves mention, mostly because its relatively high quality* makes the film itself that much more irritating....if you're capable of picking out decent music for a soundtrack, why put together a cynical, lazily animated cartoon with a hackneyed 'moral' for the film itself?"

"With Shrek 2 DreamWorks Animation continues to build a niche for itself as a solely profit-oriented cartoon studio. Anyone wanting to see well-crafted animated films that don't rely exclusively on making fun of pre-existing material for their jokes should stick with Pixar."

I also thought that soundtrack was great. Nick Cave and Tom Waits as bad-guy piano-men in "The Poison Apple" bar, and especially "Changes" by Butterfly Boucher featuring David Bowie. (And -- "Funkytown.")

Even one reviewer one panning the film conceded "To its credit, however, there are no Smash Mouth songs this time."

They're even playing the new soundtrack now while people wait in line for the Shrek ride at Universal Studios

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