Shrek 2 (2004)

Rupert Everett: Prince Charming

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• [opening lines] 

  Prince Charming : Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, the king and queen were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, and throughout the land everyone was happy, until the sun went down, and they saw that their daughter was cursed with a frightful enchantment that took hold each and every night. Desperate, they sought the help of a fairy godmother, who had them lock the young princess away in a tower, there to await the kiss of the handsome Prince Charming. It was he who would chance the perilous journey through blistering cold and scorching desert, traveling for many days and nights, risking life and limb to reach the dragon's keep, for he was the bravest, and most handsome in all the land, and it was destiny that his kiss would break the dreaded curse. He alone would climb to the highest room of the tallest tower to enter the princess's chambers, cross the room to her sleeping silhouette, pull back the gossamer curtains to find her-

  [Charming gasps at the sight of the Big Bad Wolf] 

  Wolf : What?

  Prince Charming : Princess... Fiona?

  Wolf : NO!

  Prince Charming : Oh, thank heavens! Where is she?

  Wolf : She's on her honeymoon.

  Prince Charming : Honeymoon? With whom?

• Fairy Godmother : We have to go. I have to do Charming's hair. You know, he's all high in the front and he can't reach the back. He always needs someone to take care of the back.

  Prince Charming : Oh, thank you, Mother.

  Donkey : [outside window]  Mother?

  Shrek : Uh... Mary! A talking horse!

  Fairy Godmother : The ogre!

• Princess Fiona : Is that glitter on your lips?

  Prince Charming : Mmm, cherry flavored. Want a taste?

• Prince Charming : [waving his sword]  Where is he Mum? I shall render his head from his shoulders! I will smite him where he stands! HE WILL RUE THE VERY DAY HE STOLE MY KINGDOM AWAY FROM ME!

  [a bird sheds its droppings on him] 

  Fairy Godmother : Oh, put it away, Junior! You're still going to be King. We just need to work out something smarter, that's all.

• Prince Charming : Uh... FYI. Not my fault!

• Prince Charming : I'll have the Medieval Meal.

• Prince Charming : I mean, how charming can I be when I have to pretend I'm that dreadful ogre?

  King : No, no, It's nobody's fault. Perhaps it's best if we just call the whole thing off, okay?

  Prince Charming , Fairy Godmother : What?

  King : You can't force someone to fall in love!

  Fairy Godmother : I beg to differ. I do it all the time!

  [pulls out a love potion from her bag] 

  Fairy Godmother : Have Fiona drink this and she'll fall in love with the first man she kisses, which will be Charming.

  King : Um, no.

  Fairy Godmother : What did you say?

  King : I can't. I won't do it.

  Fairy Godmother : Oh, yes, you will. If you remember, I helped you with your happily ever after.

  [holds her wand close to Harold's face] 

  Fairy Godmother : And I can take it away just as easily. Is that what you want? Is it?

  King : No.

  Fairy Godmother : Good boy.

• Prince Charming : Mummy!

  [tosses the magic wand to his mother] 

  Princess Fiona : [confused]  Mummy?

  Fairy Godmother : [enraged, to Shrek]  I TOLD YOU OGRES DON'T LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

  [fires a blast from her wand in a selfish attempt to kill Shrek] 

  Princess Fiona : [worried]  SHREK!

  King : NOOOOOO!

  [the blast from the wand is deflected off of the King's armour and hits the Fairy Godmother. Shocked, she wonders what hit her, and she makes another attempt to kill Shrek, but before she can fire another blast from her wand, she explodes into bubbles, dying in the process]