and should make many more movies!!!! I would give this a 11/10 if it were possible but I'll have to settle for 10/10. I highly recommend this movie for anyone and hope they make a mask 3, 4 and 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and and 6th one if they want to!

and there were loads of kids there and they loved it as much as I did! Go and see it, you will regret not doing so.

as a film like Schindler's List. Two, Son of the Mask's other outstanding artistic qualities enable it to largely transcend any problems it has with achieving a spellbinding plot.Of course, related to point one above, it's not that every film needs to have a paradigm-shattering plot to succeed. The Godfrey Reggio/Philip Glass trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi 1983 , Powaqqatsi 1988 and Naqoyqatsi 2002 all receive scores of 9 or 10 from me, and debatably they have no plots, even if they make many cogent, often philosophical, "arguments" about culture.But it's not that Son of the Mask's story isn't good. The plot is set in the same location--the fictional Edge City--as the first Mask as well as John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke's comic books, upon which both films are based . The story could take place either before or after the beloved Jim Carrey film. Tim Avery Jamie Kennedy lives in the bucolic countryside that's ironically only two miles outside of Edge City it seems almost like a northeastern New Jersey, Westchester County or southwestern Connecticut joke . The mask of Loki, the "God of mischief" in Norse mythology, comes floating down a stream, to be found by Tim's dog, Otis in an alliterative reference to Odin, Loki's father, and a pun on Milo and Otis . Tim puts it on just in time for a Halloween party, which enables him to get in the good graces of both his boss, played by comedian Steven Wright, and his wife, Tonya Traylor Howard . Prior to this, Tim was having trouble at work as a struggling animator relegated to giving studio tours dressed up as a giant tortoise, and his wife was nagging him about having a baby.Meanwhile, we get to meet Loki himself played by Alan Cumming in a fabulous prologue set in a museum. It seems that he's lost his mask of course and Odin an almost unrecognizable Bob Hoskins is nagging him to find it. Tim's masked persona enables him to get a promotion and procreate, but the baby just may metaphysically be the son of Loki, and Loki exploits this fact to try to find his mask.Although it sounds complex, perhaps, that's a more than attractive story to me. It actually trumps the first Mask film in a way by bringing the source of the mask into the proceedings. It's highly fantastical and surreal, and it enables a great number of deeper themes and subtexts. To a large extent, Son of the Mask is a film about fatherhood. It explores the fears and foibles that many fathers and fathers-to-be experience. The resolution to the film's dilemmas--and director Lawrence Guterman adeptly maintains two primary dilemmas throughout--hinge on learning how to be a better father. But there are other important themes and subtexts, including the importance of personal assertiveness carried over from the themes of the first film , the quandaries of dual career families, "sibling" rivalry, child development issues, and maybe even the beginnings of an Oedipal complex.Not that this is primarily a serious film, but it's not meant to be only or primarily a laugh-out-loud comedy, either. Guterman is much more concerned with achieving a thoroughgoing surrealism than he is with trying to make you laugh. I love surrealism, so I'm a prime candidate to love this film. In fact, I can't imagine anyone with a taste for surrealism not appreciating the film, at least to an extent.The production design--including things like the sets, matte paintings, costumes, and the ubiquitous cgi--is simply amazing. The surreal action sequences are even better. Perhaps even more than the first film, Son of the Mask realizes a "live action" cartoon.Tex Avery is again a strong reference made obvious by Kennedy's character being named "Tim Avery" and working as an animator , as is classic Warner Brothers animation in general. A long section in the middle is a clever spoof on Chuck Jones' One Froggy Evening 1955 , and there is another long section that is straight out of the Roadrunner cartoons involving Otis first drawing up blueprints then trying to execute an elaborate, almost Rube Goldbergian "elimination contraption" .The funniest aspect of the movie for me, perhaps, was a kind of "suspended absurdity", made most clear when Tonya returns from her business trip and finds her home which was subtly modeled after cartoon homes circa the 1940s and 1950s still in shambles from the cartoonish events that preceded--the piano is still hanging from the top of the stairs, the giant boxing glove is still engaged, and so on.But the performers have many funny moments, too. Although Kennedy has a couple moments of Jim Carrey-like mannerisms when Tim is The Mask, and these underscore that Kennedy can't do Carrey like Carrey can of course , these are few and far between. Kennedy is Tim as Tim for most of the film, and funny at that. Alan Cumming was hilarious in his different disguises when he's searching for his mask, and entertaining otherwise--he's impressed me in all of his films I've seen. I also found the baby frequently funny, especially when more surreal.Giving Son of the Mask a 1 or 2 seems simply ridiculous to me, even if there are elements of the film you strongly dislike. Technically, at least, this is an exemplary work of art. It deserves to be reconsidered.

many,many times the crazy,undeserved overrated and underrated ratings here have stunned me.If you like hilarious comedy, ignore the lousy ratings given here and check it out. I don't believe anyone with even a smidgen of a sense of humor could be disappointed.

Carrey's character, and like in the cartoon, the car changes to some whacked out set of wheels.The mask must have some memory to give Kennedy's character, a butt chin, big teeth and hair, when it was on Dorian, he still had his hair. It also takes the user to clubs apparently

party, When he gets home, he then makes love to his wife, while still wearing the mask. The couple soon realize there gonna have a baby. And when the baby is born, the baby seems to possess incredible super powers. During this time, a mysterious god of mischief named Loki, is trailing the mask. Call me insane, but I like this movie.

doggie funnies. The movie is definitely worth a watch. It is lighthearted and doesn't take itself too seriously, unlike many of the people who voted on this film.

this would be one of those movies where the only funny parts were shown in the previews baby Alvey Avery saying "Mother" in a deep voice still makes me crack up just thinking about it , but such was fortunately not the case here. This movie took the flavor of all the old cartoons I and a few generations before me watched growing up - like the Flintstones and Looney Tunes, both of which are cameoed in the film - and ran headlong with it. Virtually every joke was pulled straight from the cartoon old school, which was just as it should be.The acting is, for the most part, superb. Cumming does a great job playing the crazified Loki, and Hoskins is a convincing grumpy old man-god go figure, ha ha . The gem of the film, however, is the main man himself, Jamie Kennedey. His tour as the frizzed out, completely at the end of his rope father is played to the hilt, and it's great fun to watch him gradually go crazy as his son happily drives him there.With one exception which I'll elaborate on in a moment , the special effects are also spectacular. The Cats & Dogs crew may not be on the top of the visual effects heap in Hollywood, but for this movie, they don't really have to be. It actually helps that you can tell that the characters are animated when they're doing crazy things, because they're supposed to be doing things that only animated characters can do. If some super-snazzy ILM-like group had come in and made everything up super-realistic, THAT I would have complained about.The Bad: Now, Mr. Kennedey was great and awesome and wonderful as Tim Avery, but . . . well, as soon as the Mask was slapped onto him, something bad went wrong. It's almost as if the people applying the latex to his face did it incorrectly, and it kept him with almost the exact same facial expression the whole time. It's a big detraction when his face bends and contorts better when he's supposed to be a regular guy than it does when he's supposed to be a cartoon character.While this is a good movie, I think it's sadly before its time. Son of the Mask really feels less like a direct sequel and more like the end of a trilogy. I believe New Line would have done a good deal better if they'd made a different Mask movie in between this one and the first one.Finally, there's a short period where Loki loses his powers. I won't go into the details, since I don't wanna be a spoiler, but the duration of this powerlessness is disappointingly short, and not much was really done with it. Which is a shame, since there were several different things that they COULD have done with it . . . ah, well.The Deal: Overall, I thought this was a very satisfying movie. Sure, it isn't complete brilliance or movie genius or whatever. It isn't going to win any awards or change anyone's life. It's just a series of quick, side-splitting laughs strung together with funny animations. But that's all it really NEEDS to be!So just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride, neh?