After Shrek and Princess Fiona return from their honeymoon, they are invited to a royal ball by Fiona’s moms and dads to commemorate their marital relationship. Shrek hesitates to participate in, reasoning that he is stressed over how Fiona’s moms and dads would respond to her make over. Donkey appears, desiring to relocate with them after a fall-out with Dragon, much to their consternation. They all travel to the kingdom of Far Away and meet Fiona’s parents, King Harold and Queen Lillian, the previous of which is repulsed by Shrek being an ogre. At a shared meal, Shrek and Harold enter a heated argument over how Shrek and Fiona will raise their family, and Fiona, revolted at Shrek’s habits, locks herself away in her space that evening. Shrek stresses that he has actually lost his true love, especially after finding her childhood journal and reading that she was when captivated with Prince Charming (voiced by Rupert Everett).

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When Fiona understands that Shrek left she asks her daddy for aid but he responds that he always desired the very best for her and that she must much better consider exactly what is the finest for her, too. As everyone goes their separate ways, Harold is confronted by the Fairy Godmother and her kid Charming. The two retell the Prince’s adventures and how he got rid of lots of challenges and climbed up a high tower in order to save her however in vain. They reprimand Harold for breaking an old guarantee that Charming would have the ability to wed Fiona, and need that he discover a way to obtain rid of Shrek. Harold schedules Shrek and Donkey to join him on a fictitious searching trip, which truly is a trap to tempt the 2 into the hands of an assassin, Puss in Boots.

However, Puss is unable to defeat Shrek and, revealing that he was paid by Harold, asks to come along as a method to make amends. The three sneak into the Fairy Godmother’s potion factory and take a “Happily Ever After” potion that Shrek believes will bring back Fiona’s love for him. Shrek and Donkey both consume the potion and fall into a deep sleep, awakening the next morning to discover its effects: Shrek is now a good-looking human while Donkey has actually turned into a stallion. In order to make the change long-term, Shrek needs to kiss Fiona by midnight. He, Donkey, and Puss go back to the castle to find that the potion has likewise changed Fiona back into her previous, human self. However, the Fairy Godmother, having found out of the potion’s theft, obstructs Shrek and sends out Charming to present as him and win her love. At the Fairy Godmother’s advising, Shrek leaves the castle, thinking that the very best way to make Fiona delighted is to let her go.

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After seeing that Fiona isn’t falling in love with Prince Charming, Harold decides to inform the Fairy Godmother and Charming they need to call off the strategy. They decline and choose to that they will not be worried with her feelings. To make sure Fiona falls in love with Charming, the Fairy Godmother offers Harold a love potion to take into Fiona’s tea. But Harold responds that it is not possible to make his daughter fall in love in this way as he does not wish to breach his child’s totally free will. This exchange is overheard by Shrek, Donkey, and Puss, who are soon jailed by the royal guards and thrown into a dungeon. While the royal ball starts, numerous of Shrek’s pals unite to release the trio and produce an enormous gingerbread guy, which breaks through the castle’s defenses so Shrek can stop Charming from kissing Fiona. He is far too late to stop them; instead of falling for Charming, however, Fiona knocks him out with a headbutt. Harold reveals that he never ever provided Fiona the love potion after seeing how much she hates Prince Charming, whereupon the Fairy Godmother attacks Shrek.

In the taking place melee, a spell from her wand, presumably to eliminate Shrek, rebounds off Harold’s armor, when he dedicates self-sacrifice to conserve Shrek and disintegrates her; it also returns Harold to his true form, that of the Frog Prince. He had utilized the Happily Ever After potion years ago in order to wed Lillian, however she informs him that she loves him regardless of his appearance. As the clock strikes midnight, Shrek and Fiona let the potion’s results disappear and they go back to their ogre selves, while Donkey changes back too. Harold offers his blessing to the marriage and apologizes for his earlier behavior, and the celebration resumes as the credits begin.

They are interrupted by a quick after-party scene where the Dragon, who had actually romanced Donkey in the first film, arrives and reveals that they now have numerous dragon-donkey hybrid, or “dronkeys”, babies.

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