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Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Liam Falconer, Ryan Falconer, Traylor Howard ... see more see more... , Kal Penn , Bob Hoskins , Andy Bear , Ben Stein , Steven Wright

The strange mask that gave Jim Carrey remarkable powers in the 1994 hit The Mask makes a mess of a seemingly ordinary family in this special effects-laden comic fantasy. Tim Avery (Jamie Kennedy) is a... read more read more... cartoonist living quietly in suburbia with his wife Tonya (Traylor Howard), their baby son Alvey (Ryan Falconer), and dog Otis; however, their lives are turned upside down when Otis discovers a strange green mask which channels the spirit of Loki (Alan Cumming), the Norse god of mischief. Both Otis and Alvey get their hands (or paws) on the mask, and soon both are shape shifting and making all manner of trouble while having a great time doing it. Unfortunately, this isn't the end of Tim and Tonya's troubles -- it seems the supreme Norse god Odin (Bob Hoskins) has given Loki the assignment of recovering the mask, and Loki will do whatever he must to get the mask back from Alvey and Otis. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005

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  • January 24, 2012
    "The Mask" is the absolute funniest film i've ever seen in my life. CGI enhanced the first film and made it even better then it already was. In this case, it makes this cash in plummet into the dirt. Everything about this film is painful and there are no redeeming features at all... read more. The script is bad, the acting is bad, the characters are awful but worst of all. It's missing Jim Carrey and the physical comedy that made the original a golden comedy classic. Depressingly it is one of the worst films i've ever seen in my life.
  • August 15, 2011
    Horrible, in my Top 10 worst films ever, i hate, hate,hate this crap
  • February 12, 2011
    Oh my god haha this was such a terrible film. F
  • December 31, 2010
    the only entertaining thing about this film is the Dog when he wears the mask and the ending duel between Loki and the dad with the mask on, other than that its a load of crap
  • November 27, 2010
    1st commandment; Tex Avery's name shouldnot be disgraced

    Well, that happned...

    This movie tried to hard to bring laughs and it failed completely. Just a boring embarassment. This is more of a pinoff I think then a sequel to the 1994 The Mask and it strayed away more form th... read moree comics than the first. Seriously, this was just an excuse to through in as many cartoon and Looney Tunes references as possible. When humans are given cartoon-like qualities the outcome is immediately a disaster, well, in the case that it's an entire rip of an actuall cartoon. It felt like a straight to video movie, but they may be giving it a little too much credit.
  • October 3, 2010
    When seeing the trailer in front of "The Polar Express" back in 2004, I noticed that there was no Jim Carrey. That fact did not kill me. I already expected that the film would have cartoony effects like the first. Did not see it in the theaters. I went to see "Pooh's Heffalump Mo... read morevie" on the weekend this was released. I know, strange. And boy I was glad that I didn't see this. I enentually saw it on Cartoon Network (right TV channel to air this film on) and felt stupid throughout the entire broadcast. The jokes are not funny, the story is too simple-minded, and the effects were horrid. The first "Mask" movie was good because if Jim Carrey was spinning his legs around like a Looney Tune character, his face would not be computer-generated. But here, if the little baby is doing cartoony things, they horridly make his face all CGI. I am sorry for all those who were victims of the film's terribleness. Is that even a word? This movie is only to be seen by mental patients.
  • July 31, 2010
    horrible. one of the worst movies ive ever seen. dont see it. F
  • May 5, 2010
    Caught on tv, this film was a bit of a crazy watch. Whilst comparisons will inevitably be made to the first, there really is no competition of which film is the best (that's The Mask by the way). With that in mind, you have to take this film as a film in it's own right and whil... read morest there were some amusing baby moments, "It's just too good to be true" will never quite sound the same ever again.

    Worth watching if you're after a brainless, easy viewing film.
  • February 22, 2010
    This was a stupid movie.
  • February 6, 2010
    What an absolutely atrocious film. It's just so annoyingly terrible that you can feel the anger rising within you. Everybody looks, and should be, ashamed to have taken part in this. The only person that manages to escape complete damnation is Bob Hoskins. The rules of the first ... read morefilm are thrown out, and the film strings together as many pointless scenes as it can. Without an actual plot, the middle of the film is filled with cartoon sketches of the dog and baby battling, and Alan Cumming acting creepy around babies. It's the majority of the film and it's painful to watch. Dancing CGI babies are simply horrible, and this film is filled with them. Here's hoping the poor and continuous CGI, floats to the bottom of shit creek.

Critic Reviews


Andrea Gronvall
January 8, 2007
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

Whatever possessed director Lawrence Guterman and writer Lance Khazei to transform the sequel to 1994's libidinous hit comedy into pabulum? Full Review

Richard Roeper
February 22, 2005
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

In the five years I've been co-hosting this show, this is the closest I've ever come to walking out halfway through the film, and now that I look back on the experience, I wish I had. Full Review

Jennie Punter
February 19, 2005
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail

If you are the son of Frankenstein, Flubber, Dracula, Lassie, Ali Baba, Sinbad, Billy the Kid, Davy Crockett, Robin Hood, Tarzan or Satan, you have to accept that the movie about you is likely not as ... Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
February 18, 2005
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

A film top-heavy with joyless Tex Avery-style special effects and a dancing-baby bit embarrassingly reminiscent of TV's Ally McBeal. Full Review

Susan Walker
February 18, 2005
Susan Walker, Toronto Star

With so many cuts a second, all attention goes into following the visuals. Just as well, since the story leaves so little to work with. Full Review

Roger Moore
February 18, 2005
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

Guterman falls into the same trap he set for himself in the equally lifeless Cats & Dogs. There's nothing funny going on around those zany visuals. Full Review

Lisa Rose
February 18, 2005
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger

It's all very juvenile, yet there's a level of imagination one wouldn't expect from such fluff. It's the sort of visionary immaturity that bridges generations. Full Review

Lou Lumenick
February 18, 2005
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Parents who let their kids see this stinker should be brought up on abuse charges; so should the movie ratings board that let this suggestive mess slip by with a PG rating.

Jack Mathews
February 18, 2005
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

What the filmmakers missed in assuming the mask from the earlier film is that it was Carrey's astonishing physical comedy that made that film a hit, not the animation. Full Review

Roger Ebert
February 18, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What we basically have here is a license for the filmmakers to do whatever they want to do with the special effects, while the plot, like Wile E. Coyote, keeps running into the wall. Full Review

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