Mild-mannered Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) takes Edge City by storm when he stumbles upon a mysterious and ancient mask.
DVD Features: Audio Commentary:Audio Essay #1 with filmakers and Bob Shay Audio Essay #2 with director (repurposed from the original DVD) DVD ROM Features:content includes script-to-screen Featurette:4 Featurettes- "Introducing Cameron Diaz" "What Makes Fido Run" "Cartoon Logic" "Return to Edge City"
For a film heavily dependent on special effects, the best effect going in this 1994 comedy is the ever-expressive star, Jim Carrey, playing a shy bank teller who stumbles across an ancient mask that turns him into a green hepcat with extraordinary powers. Cameron Diaz plays the love interest, but the real purpose of the movie is to bring cartoonish energy and effects into a live-action production. Toward that end, director Charles Russell does the job, but the gimmick wears out quickly for those easily bored by this sort of pseudo-animation. Lots of kids adore the film, though, and why not? The hero gets to be a whirlwind of mischief and still get the girl. The DVD release includes optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, deleted scenes, trailers, optional French soundtrack and optional French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
The Mask still delivers:
The Mask was one of those childhood defining movies for me. At the age I was, I became enthralled with cartoons and the animation process. The idea of a live action cartoon was just enough of a high concept idea to get my little 10 year old mind excited!! For years I had wondered if cartoon characters really existed in our 3D world what would they look like? How would they be lighted? Would the squashing and stretching work and look right?
Luckily the mask answered that question for me! The then... more info
AN UNEXPECTED THRILL OF LAUGHTER........:
FUNNY AND AMUSING. JIM CAREY IS THE ONLY ACTOR WHO COULD HAVE PULLED THIS ALL OFF.
WHO WOULD SUSPECT THAT CAMERON DIAZ COULD SING AND DANCE? LIKE I SAID, THIS MOVIE WAS AN UNEXPECTED THRILL OF LAUGHTER........
Not so funny now.:
The Mask starring Jim Carrey was pretty funny and refreshing when it was released in 1994 but unfortanely this film fades with time. Carrey always gives a good performance but he's also kinda scary as the Mask. This movie is also the film debut of Cameron Diaz, she's va va voom in this one, she has great sex appeal. Good comedy but I'm pretty much over it.
SMOKIN'! This ISN'T Your Same Old Mask!:
The Mask (1994)
(8.5/10)
I wasn't going to remark on this one, but this release I just picked up surprised me. I was at the WalMart with the missus, and we passed by the bargain bin, and of course I was dragged in by it but this time she joined me. She pulled out The Mask & said "Why don't we ever watch this one?", and I said "Because I never bought it, I'm waiting for a newer version, that one was made around 1997, probably looks pretty bad." But then she pointed out from the back that... more info
