Whatever possessed director Lawrence Guterman and writer Lance Khazei to transform the sequel to 1994's libidinous hit comedy into pabulum?
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Son of the Mask (2005)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:0
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Overly frantic, painfully unfunny, and sorely missing the presence of Jim Carrey.
Theatrical Release:Feb 18, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $16,967,576
Synopsis: This time around, the star of the film is Jamie Kennedy (MALIBU'S MOST WANTED), who plays Tim Avery, a young husband with a fear of fatherhood. Unfortunately, he is about to become just that,... [More]
Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Bob Hoskins, Traylor Howard
Director: Larry Guterman
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Reviews for Son of the Mask
Top CriticIn 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.
02/22/05
Top CriticIf 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 good or memorable as the one about your dad.
02/19/05
Top CriticA film top-heavy with joyless Tex Avery-style special effects and a dancing-baby bit embarrassingly reminiscent of TV's Ally McBeal.
02/18/05
Top CriticWith so many cuts a second, all attention goes into following the visuals. Just as well, since the story leaves so little to work with.
02/18/05
Top CriticIt'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.
02/18/05
Top CriticParents 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.
02/18/05
Top CriticWhat 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.
02/18/05
Top CriticWhat 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.
02/18/05
Top Critic90 minutes of flying grand pianos, green vomit, giant hand grenades, and photography that almost takes you into the actors' pores.
02/18/05
Top CriticIt's repetitious, overpowering and ultimately rather tiring, wearing out its welcome too soon. Plus, that darn baby just scares me.
02/17/05
Top CriticIcky and incompetent (special effects aside) in equal parts, this groaner makes 1994's The Mask look like something you'd study in a film graduate course at NYU.
02/17/05
Top CriticIt's astonishing how dull a movie that packs so much visual overstimulation into its frames can be.
02/17/05
Top CriticSon of the Mask is an irredeemable mess, a computer-animated Punch and Judy show without wit, heart or a single memorable performance.
02/17/05
Top CriticThe attempt to invoke the imaginative mayhem of Warner Bros. animation never gets anywhere beyond the obvious effort, and it rests uneasily with the messages about the importance of being a good parent and balancing work and play.
02/17/05
Top CriticIt's not just an absence of Mr. Carrey that poses the problem. It's an absence of an intriguing story.
02/17/05
Top CriticCurdled gobs of antic shtick.
02/17/05
Top CriticA perfectly good six-minute animated short is taffy-pulled and inflated beyond reason or tolerance.
02/17/05
Top CriticJim Carrey doesn't go anywhere near this follow-up to his 1994 blockbuster, and neither should viewers.
02/17/05
Top CriticCongratulations, it's a talking, dancing, top-hat-wearing boy! Just like in those incredibly innovative Quiznos commercials and that sitcom that got cancelled a while back.
02/17/05
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