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Son of the Mask
New Line Cinema
FILM:
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
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Comedy
|
Fantasy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lance Khazei
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Lawrence Guterman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 17, 2005
Theatrical: February 18, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
86 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.

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.

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.

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.

40
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
At its heart is a deep, unresolved ambivalence about child rearing.

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.

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.

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.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Lacks "spark."

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.

30
Variety
Brian Lowry
The net result is a truly numbing experience.

30
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Too low-key and amiable to match the lubriciousness Jim Carrey brought to the original.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
A comedy so unfunny, it's tragic.

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.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Cumming's antic acting is the only asset of this boisterous comedy.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Little kidniks with an appetite for zap-pow silliness might find this to their liking. Everyone else, beware.

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.

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.

20
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
It's astonishing how dull a movie that packs so much visual overstimulation into its frames can be.

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.

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.

12
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
At its least intolerable, the movie is a fatherhood freak-out.

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.

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.

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.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A witless and vulgar sequel.


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