"Family Dinner" showcases a very mature classical feel while "The Ball" and "Tonight on 'Knights'" take a more upbeat big band (award ceremony style) and rock style, respectively. Gregson-Williams has his own themes and they are performed with the full orchestra with plenty of magic and emotion, but he also gives them some other fun treatments. In Chicken Run and Shrek, Powell and Gregson-Williams spoofed numerous other film scores, and the same is true for the sequel score. What is missing from the music, however, are Powell's adrenaline-rush electronic cues, such as the beloved "Escape from the Dragon". The result is an album that maintains the playful elements of Shrek while sounding more like some of Gregson-Williams' other solo work, such as The Borrowers. In Shrek 2, Gregson-Williams was able to develop his own sound as the only composer on the project. While his score was given less time in this sequel to make room for more pop songs, Harry Gregson-Williams' return to the world of green ogres - without John Powell this time around - improves upon and tightens the sound and themes from the first score.
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