Trivia
»At the time of its release, the movie had the third highest opening gross of all time with an estimated $121 million.
»From a list of stats reported in Famous magazine:
It took 1,000,000 man-hours to complete the film with a crew size of 150»After the queen smashes her head through the second wall she begins to hum "Just a Spoonfull of Sugar" from Mary Poppins and then "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (1965). The voice of the queen is Julie Andrews who sings the songs in Mary Poppins and The Sound Of Music.
Of the 4,500 costumes that were designed for the film only 2,500 actually made it into the final cut.
1,373 characters are present in the theatre scene with Prince Charming preforming. This is recorded as the largest crowd scene of all three Shrek movies.
There are 23 key fairy tale characters that appear through out the film and a total of 4,378 generic characters that were available for the animators to pull from library when making crowd scenes.
62,173 branches per tree with 191,545 leaves per tree.
As for bricks there are 1,602 bricks making up the docks and 3,196 bricks making up the sewer walls the Princesses use as escape.
A total of 60 new "enviroments" were created for the movie
»Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title 'Stone'.
»The first in the series to not have a "storybook" opening.
»Although Donkey and Dragon have five children, we only learn the names of three: Coco, Peanut, and Bananas.
»Before the princesses break into the castle, Fiona makes a bird noise to signal Snow White. She uses the same hand movements to make it as Natalie does to make a bird noise in _Charlie's Angels (2000)_. Natalie and Fiona are both played by Cameron Diaz.
»In the final dress rehearsal before the show, there are trees warming up and holding on to poles connected to mirrors. This is a direct reference to A Chorus Line (1985), and you can hear "One" playing in the background.
»In one scene, the Gingerbread Man's life essentially passes before his eyes. Not only does this scene make reference to "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974)_ , but according to the sequence, the Gingerbread Man is or was married.
»The music used when the Princesses attack the castle is Led Zepplin's "The Immigrant Song" and "Barracuda" by Heart. The soundtrack album, however, features a remake of "Barracuda" by Black Eyed Peas lead singer Fergie.
»Antonio Banderas voices Puss in Boots in Italian and Spanish too.
»Had the biggest box-office opening of an animated movie ever.
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