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Son of the Mask

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So far it's been a rough time with movies getting worse with each comming year. But ever so rarely among the visual smut ,sinks a film that really demands our scorn and disgust!!!

You need only read the other reviews of this film to see how much people hate it.Among the worst films in my "worst films ever " category this one tops the list!!!

So congratulatios Mr.Guterman YOU just set the new low standard for america's most craptastic movies.(take bow and let us stuff this movie were it belongs)

Son of the Mask is an ugly, horrible, awful film. It's factory made with utter incompetance and has zero consistency with the original film. The CGI effects are the absolute worst, worst, WORST you will EVER, EVER, EVER see and the Mask character only appears twice for like 5 minutes in the whole film. Oh, please stay away! Stay well away from this hideous monstrosity! I'm sorry I can't say more but I have no words to aptly describe this worthless, pointless movie.

I don't even know what to say.... Jamie Kennedy is not funny. Alan Cummings is ...weird. The special effects are cheesy. The characters are ANNOYING. The music is like a drill in my ear. On the other hand my 8 year old son thinks it's great.

This is one of those movies that you sit and watch in stunned amazment at just how incredibly bad it is. It is hard to pull yourself from it once you start viewing it since you are drawn to see if it somehow accidently has some redeeming piece only to be struck aghast as it takes another even more dramatic turn deeper into garbage.
Junk, rotten, stinker, garbage... Try all the words you know and none, not even in every possible combination can convey just what a bad movie this is.

This should be a 4.5 stars. Very rare that the sequels can compare to the original, but this sequel does it. Good acting, good script
lots of looney tunes type of cartoon characters....
They had guts to put a muscial number at the beginning...but it
works and from there the movie picks up and never lets go.
I rarely watch movies twice, but this one i could watch again and
again.

What is with filmmakers today taking CGI where CGI shouldn't be taken? I thought the Scooby Doo films had some pretty bad CGI characters but Son of the Mask takes the cake by far. The only CGI character they got away with was masked Ottis, the family dog. And that's fine. I can accept an animated green faced dog running around causing mischief and trying to blow things up in a very cartoonish manner. This worked because CGI anthropomorphism is just easier to accept and it didn't try to switch from normal Ottis to crazy masked Ottis in one or two shots. When Ottis was masked, he remained masked for a while, so really there was no comparison between the real dog and the animated dog. But with the baby, this was a totally different story because the baby didn't need the wear the mask, it was in his genes, so when he did something crazy and cartoony it went from a real shot of the baby to an instant CGI baby and this just looked horrible. The CGI baby looked like a deformed version of the real baby and when they tried to blend the real shots with the animated shots it just ended up looking really stupid and pathetic.
Aside from that, the movie had some overall embarassingly stupid characters that were very badly acted and had a drunken out of control car wreck of a storyline, all about 7 or 8 years too late. Everything about this movie was just ridiculous. It completely failed at being zaney cartoony fun, something I remember from the first Mask film. Easily one of the worst films of 2005.

I am a huge Jamie kennedy fan so I'm probably biased. But I thought he was great in this movie playing the Mask guy. It's about a cartoonist ( Jamie Kennedy) who's afraid of being a father but he has a baby after he puts on the Mask. The baby has Mask powers and he teaches Jamie and lesson or two in fatherhood. The scenes between Jamie Kenndy and the baby are so sweet!! And also really funny and bizarre. The other great character in this movie is the dog. It's insane! I really didn't know what to expect when I saw this in the theaters but I ended up laughing my butt off.

Most guys I know are reluctant to become fathers. This movie really plays on that well. karma, karma, karma. The baby takes the Dad to the cleaners basically and it's mayhem.
I loved the special effects, how the baby becomes the mask baby and the dog too.
But Loki takes the cake. he's a great actor. it's really entertaining and I don't know why people are so hard on it just because Jim Carrey's not in it from a thousand years ago when they did the first movie.
Get over it.

Jamie Kennedy, Brendon Fraser, Tom Green, could you guys stop ruining my dream of being a cartoonist? I may not had a creative animated thought put in paper for several years (heck, I don't even remember if I drew anything), but I do have prospects of THINKING of being a cartoonist. Do you guys have to immerse yourself into incomprehensible, out-of-control, and disgusting situations just to prove that dreams can come true? That sounds depressing, but (and in true critical segue fashion) not as depressing as "Son of the Mask" entirely. This movie is as full-of-life as an ebola virus, and tickles my funny bone as well as the electric chair.

Tim Avery (Kennedy) is a eccentric wannabe cartoonist who can't seem to get ahead of himself to support his loving wife, played by Traylor Howard, who wanted a child for this family. When his dog found the iconic mask on the lake and brought it him, Tim saw the object as junk until he had no choice but to bring it for his job's costume party. He put on the mask towards the party, and he magically became The Mask. Just to veer off-subject from the story, I have to say Jamie Kennedy's lousy as The Mask. For some improbable reason, he was less crazy as The Mask than he was as himself; how can you outcrazy the titular character? And once he got the party started, I had to sit through the most agonizing rendition of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" I've ever seen. The random zany actions and convenient choreography, that's par for the course, but the song was terribly directed and terribly sung, it was torture to watch and to listen. Anyway, Tim in Mask form later knocked up his wife, and eventually had a baby named Alvey. Once his wife left town to solve crimes with an obsessive compulsive detective, Tim was left alone to care for Alvey, knowing soon enough the baby has the Mask mojo. Oh, boy.

A baby crying and Jamie Kennedy trying to be funny, a combo that's utterly the most painful thing I had to experience. But I was truly suffering once a CGI baby replaced the real baby and decided to his influence on cartoons to make his daddy go insane, and then the dog used the mask on himself to fend off the baby from doing so in elaborate schemes. With the two CGI models duking each other out, along with a few decent animated shorts in intervals, this sequel could've been better as a cartoon. Yea, I said the same thing about "Furry Vengeance", but that film actually made me laugh a couple of times. "Son of the Mask" isn't funny at all, it's just painful. The majority of the plot is just the baby and the dog imitating and ripping off much better traps from much better Looney Tunes cartoons.

And then there's Loki (Alan Cummings), a villain who's recurring gag is dressing in silly clothing, being an awful CGI creature, and pulling childish pranks on parents (I know he's the God of Mischief, but this is akin to a class clown in elementary school). He has to find the baby who might lead the location of the mask, a mythological tool of his, which he has to give back to his father Odin, played by Bob Hoskins. I hate this movie to death, but I must say Hoskins looked good as Odin, both in make-up and costume. But Odin's nice threads isn't enough to deal with Loki, who ended up being just as much of a nuisance as the fake toddler.

"Son of the Mask" follows the dubious tradition of "Son of King Kong", "Son of Godzilla" and "Son of Frankenstein", and this is the worse, and also the most terrifying, Son of them all. The cartoony antics gave me a headache, the characters are intolerant, and the movie followed an unspoken limitlessness of implausibility that frustrated me; in one specific scene when Loki became mortal for his undoings, the baby then sandwiched him with two large trash bin which, as a mortal, should've turned him into gooey remains from a "Saw" experiment rather than make him comically fall down. This is the reason I avoid children's movies like this, because at their worse, they really make me explode in anger. Forget this hateful exercise in absurdity.

Finally, in a year of tepid horror flicks (White Noise, Hide and Seek, Boogeyman) 2005 finally gave us a true terror classic. Son of the Mask is sure to horrify adults and kids alike.

Take, for instance, the scene when bleary-eyed new daddy Tim Avery (Jamie Kennedy) comes within inches of feeding his baby son a broken light bulb. Brilliantly shocking!

Then there's that bit when Avery mistakes his wife for the film's villain and attacks her, slamming her to the floor and beginning to throttle her. Move over, Raging Bull! Truly chilling stuff!

How about the lengthy, amazingly violent sequences in which the family's jealous dog and the infant repeatedly try to kill each other? Talk about taking Pet Sematary to a whole new bloodcurdling level!

Oh, you didn't know Son of the Mask was a horror film? Neither did we. This sequel to 1994's starmaking Jim Carrey-Cameron Diaz vehicle was marketed as a comedy for kids. Heck, it's even rated PG. Don't be fooled.

Outside of a few amusing occasions - thank goodness for troopers Alan Cumming and Ben Stein - Son isn't funny. It's creepy, grating and tiresome, hands down one of the worst sequels ever. And the only indication that it's a kids flick is its reliance on pee, poop, puke and even snot jokes for its (far too few) laughs.

Granted, the studio never should have green-lighted a Mask sequel now that Carrey has moved on to bigger and better things. Has there ever been an actor more perfectly suited for a role?

This is an impossible assignment for any actor, much less a mediocre talent such as Kennedy (Malibu's Most Wanted). That's probably why Kennedy's character wears the titular mask only twice in the film, and both occasions are underwhelming at best.

Instead, the plot revolves around baby Alvey Avery, who possesses the Mask's superpowers thanks to being conceived while Papa was in mask mode. Meanwhile, Loki (the God of Mischief) is on a mission to track down the missing mask and appease his dad, Odin (Bob Hoskins).

Cumming, best known to American film audiences as Nightcrawler in X-Men 2, has fun mugging his way through as Loki. And Stein is droll fun as usual, supplying the film's back story.

The rest, however, is ugly, boring and crude, a disappointment no matter how low one's expectations are. Watch this one and you'll want a mask, all right - to hide your embarrassment when leaving the theater.