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The Mask
1994
When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties; to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer's personality to superhuman proportions--oddly, others seem to find this attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new life considerably, but when he seduces the girlfriend .. Read more
| Starring | Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Richard Jeni, Peter Riegert |
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| Director | Charles Russell |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Mask
When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties; to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer's personality to superhuman proportions--oddly, others seem to find this attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new life considerably, but when he seduces the girlfriend of a powerful gangster, complications result. Academy Award Nominations: Best Visual Effects.
| Starring | Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Richard Jeni, Peter Riegert, Amy Yasbeck, Peter Greene |
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| Director | Charles Russell |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Mar 2005 Blu-ray: unknown Production year: 1994 |
| Format | DVD |
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Jim Carrey consolidated his “Ace Ventura” position as America's most successful comedian with this stunning tribute to the zany style of Tex Avery and other Warner Bros animators from the golden age of cartoons. Amazing computer-generated special effects drive this slick showcase for Carrey's explosively unpredictable talents, as he plays a mild-mannered banker who turns into a wild and crazy superhero when he finds a magical ancient mask. Highlights include the Bugs Bunny-style Cuban Pete routine, Carrey's pet dog donning the mask and gorgeous Cameron Diaz as the star's love interest. But mainly it's an excuse for Carrey to move with whirlwind speed, pop his eyeballs and swap parts of his anatomy for the cartoon equivalents in hysterically funny and tremendously imaginative ways.
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Antic, amusing comedy that finds a perfect setting for the exaggerated style of Jim Carrey: cartoon-style humour, borrowing heavily from Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. The jokes are often familiar, but never seen before in a real-life setting thanks to the sp
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11 out of 12 people found this review helpful
kid stuff
Definitely not for grown-ups.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
A real cartoon
Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey) is a much put-upon functionary in a bank. His best friend berates him for being too nice, girls walk over him and his boss bullies him. The only sign of hope is when Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz) walks into the bank and asks for his help setting up an account. Sadly she is only there because her boyfriend it planning to rob the place.
After yet more humiliation Stanley accidentally discovers an ancient mask whose power transforms him into a kind of human-cartoon hybrid. Capable of every swirling, flying, bouncing, stretching move ever performed by the denizens of a Warner Brothers cartoon and able to whip props and costume changes out of thin air with more panache than Bugs Bunny, Ipkiss becomes an irrepressible engine of madcap romance and comic retribution - the Mask.
The plot follows Stanley's twin entanglements with Tina and her vicious boyfriend Dorian Tyrell but these are merely a framework to show off the insanity of Carrey's Mask. Whether he's pulling a full size sledgehammer out of his trouser pocket to smash a fleeing alarm clock, or fashioning a working tommy gun out of modelling balloons it is the Mask and his gags that are the thing. Plot serves about the same duty here as it would in the cartoons it is based on - it's just a mechanism for getting the characters from set piece to set piece.
And it works. Jim Carrey was born to be a cartoon and in The Mask he comes closer than anyone else has to capturing the flexible insanity of toonland in a live action film, displacing the only other real contender, Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But where Hoskins aped cartoon antics at one point, Carrey truly inhabits them. The well pitched special effects seem only to enhance his already plastic performance.
Cameron Diaz's debut performance requires little more of her than to look gorgeous and respond to Carrey. The former she does effortlessly, the latter seems a little stretched at times. Peter Greene as Dorian Tyrell is an effective villan providing the necessary element of threat without unbalancing the necessary silliness of the story. -
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Carrey's Scrooge is his dad's lookalike
- 05 Nov 2009
Jim Carrey has been given a glimpse into the future after movie illustrators added years to his looks for his animated character in new movie A Christmas Carol. The Mask star, 47, voices Scrooge in the animated retelling of the classic Charles Dickens tale, and producers based the features of the character on the actor himself. But the similarities between Carrey's movie Scrooge and his dad Percy's real-life looks are so uncanny, he's convinced his family will be spooked. He says, "That's the... Read more
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Mask, The - BLU-RAY Version
When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties; to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer's personality to superhuman proportions--oddly, others seem to find this attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new life considerably, but ...
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The Mask
When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties; to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer's personality to superhuman proportions--oddly, others seem to find this attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new life considerably, but ...
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