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Son of the Mask
New Line Cinema

Son of the Mask reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 20 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.9 out of 10
based on 26 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for action, crude and suggestive humor and language

Starring Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Ryan and Liam Falconer, Bob Hoskins, Traylor Howard, and Ben Stein

A decade after the legendary Mask of Loki wreaked havoc on the life of an unsuspecting adult, the magical mask finds its way into the possession of a child in the family comedy Son of the Mask. (New Line Cinema)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Adventure  |  Comedy  |  Fantasy  
WRITTEN BY: Lance Khazei  
DIRECTED BY: Lawrence Guterman  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 17, 2005 
Theatrical: February 18, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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50
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The characters twirl around like mini tornadoes, but between random brash moments of technological eye-tickling, Son of the Mask sags more than it spins.
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50
Miami Herald Peter Debruge
In actuality, it's silly fun custom-tailored for reluctant young fathers and that entire clan of 20-something man-children who still read comic books and play video games, guys who do everything possible to resist the notion of adult responsibility.
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
While not as edgy or funny as "The Mask," the popular 1994 "original" starring Jim Carrey, the movie offers eye-popping animation high-jinks and a warm-and-fuzzy story that reinforces what some would call family values.
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42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
A harried, screechy film that goes nowhere at a breakneck pace, full of sound and furious slapstick overkill but devoid of wit.
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40
Village Voice Mark Holcomb
At its heart is a deep, unresolved ambivalence about child rearing.
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38
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Even with a new leading man and a more family-friendly rating, some things never change: The Mask still stars Industrial Light & Magic.
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38
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
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.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
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30
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Lacks "spark."
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30
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
Most of the animated sequences, capably mixed with live action, leave a bad aftertaste, particularly when the ultimate fate of one beaten and battered human bystander after another is left callously unresolved. In other words, parents beware.
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30
Variety Brian Lowry
The net result is a truly numbing experience.
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30
Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Too low-key and amiable to match the lubriciousness Jim Carrey brought to the original.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A comedy so unfunny, it's tragic.
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25
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Doing a sequel to "The Mask" without Jim Carrey sounds like a really bad idea. As Son of the Mask proves, it is.
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25
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Cumming's antic acting is the only asset of this boisterous comedy.
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25
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Little kidniks with an appetite for zap-pow silliness might find this to their liking. Everyone else, beware.
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25
USA Today Mike Clark
Icky 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.
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20
TV Guide Angel Cohn
S-s-s-smokin'? Hardly, this sequel to the 1994 Jim Carrey flick "The Mask" should have been snuffed out in the drawing room.
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20
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
It's astonishing how dull a movie that packs so much visual overstimulation into its frames can be.
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20
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Loud, mean-spirited and generally obnoxious, Son of the Mask makes the boisterous 1994 original look downright demure and refined.
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20
Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
One presumes the only thing worse than making this disaster is actually watching it; wouldn't wish either on anyone.
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12
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
At its least intolerable, the movie is a fatherhood freak-out.
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11
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
But for anyone who assumed Kennedy's experiment couldn't sink any lower than "Malibu's Most Wanted," there are, it appears, ever deeper depths in the realm of comedic misfires.
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10
The New York Times Dana Stevens
An irredeemable mess, a computer-animated Punch and Judy show without wit, heart or a single memorable performance.
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0
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
No doubt extensive market research shows that there's an audience out there for movies like Son Of The Mask, but it's too depressing to speculate who that might be.
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0
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A witless and vulgar sequel.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 198 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a3:
I gave this a 3 because it did have some interesting special effects.

Frank S. gave it a0:
An 8 out 10...an 8 out of 10!!!??? If their was any proof that America's IQ is going down the crapper, one can look no farther than the poor souls that gave this an 8 or higher. A movie directed with all the subtlety of a jackhammer and wit of Pauly Shore...It is pure garbage.

Norm F. gave it a0:
It's not often you see a movie with all special effects and no script but this is it.

John C. gave it a1:
The worst movie I have ever seen. Not funny, lame, and Jamie Kennedy needs to realize he is not Jim Carrey and he cannot attempt the same slap stick humor it just looks so bad that you almost feel sorry for the poor looser.

Ugh Lee gave it a3:
I love how there are either 10s or 1's as people's score. You don't see any 5s or 6s... which means you either love or hate it. i hate it. Maybe would have been ok if i was 15 years younger.

xxhopingtearsxx gave it a0:
To make a sequel to the Mask, you must include Jim Carrey. Or else, it just wont be the sequel to the Mask.. Pitiful.

Logan H gave it a0:
I watched this movie hoping that there would be some sign of JIm Carry, but sadly no.The special effects sucked, and what was up with Jamie Kennedy's face when he put it on. Worst movie I have ever seen

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