The Mask franchise has laid dormant for many years, but it looks like a new sequel to the cult classic comedy superhero movie could be on the way soon. We first heard that there were plans in the works over the summer when co-creator Mike Richardson revealed that “[they] have some ideas” about how to reboot the series. In particular, he said a female-led follow-up was on its way.
We Got This Covered has since confirmed that via our sources, and now we’ve received some new details about the project. We’ve heard that it’s still only in the very earliest stages of development, but that the central idea is for the new Mask movie to follow a relative of Stanley Ipkiss, possibly his daughter – though that’s yet to be confirmed.
Ipkiss, of course, was the character Jim Carrey played in the 1994 original. And if they decide to focus on his daughter,...
We Got This Covered has since confirmed that via our sources, and now we’ve received some new details about the project. We’ve heard that it’s still only in the very earliest stages of development, but that the central idea is for the new Mask movie to follow a relative of Stanley Ipkiss, possibly his daughter – though that’s yet to be confirmed.
Ipkiss, of course, was the character Jim Carrey played in the 1994 original. And if they decide to focus on his daughter,...
- 11/28/2019
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Going where Jim Carrey and his rubber face profitably went before him, Jamie Kennedy tries The Mask on for size only to find out that's it's a painfully ill-fitting proposition.
Loud, mean-spirited and generally obnoxious, Son of the Mask makes the boisterous 1994 original look downright demure and refined.
Director Lawrence Guterman, of Cats and Dogs fame, and his crack visual effects team are so busy showing off how far digital technology has advanced in the past decade that no one ever bothers to stop for a second to check if there are any workable characters or a story that makes any sense.
The result is a garish mess of a movie that spins wildly out of control early on and never looks back.
Squarely aimed at kids (presumably those with ADD), the New Line release may initially draw Kennedy's WB Network and Malibu's Most Wanted fan base, but its overall boxoffice will unlikely come anywhere close to the $120 million nabbed by the original.
Where the first Mask transformed Carrey's timid bank clerk, the new edition centers on Kennedy's Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist whose name references Tex Avery, the famed animator whose classic, energetic work inspired the first Mask film and has been cannibalized here.
A reluctant new dad, Tim has no idea what he's in for. Not only was his son conceived while Tim was in full Mask mode -- meaning it's only a matter of time before the baby exhibits some very unusual behavior -- but also the cursed item is being sought by the relentless Loki (Alan Cumming), the mischievous son of Norse god Odin (Bob Hoskins).
To further amp up the ensuing chaos, the pooch also gets its snout into the mask, turning Tim's household in a whirling dervish of computer-generated mayhem.
Failing to recapture the style and manic but focused energy of the original, Guterman's direction and Lance Khazei's script instead flail around in a dozen directions at once, with grating results.
Not quite blessed with the facial elasticity of his predecessor, Kennedy makes do with his best mugging until the special effects take over, and Cumming, Hoskins and the rest of the cast essentially follow his lead.
And those effects, supervised by James E. Price, are pretty spectacular, if a little disturbing. The centerpiece -- a fully digitized, photorealistic havoc-wreaking baby -- could conceivably induce terrifying nightmares weeks after initial exposure.
Son of the Mask
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema presents a Radar Pictures production in association with Dark Horse Entertainment
A Lawrence Guterman film
Credits:
Director: Lawrence Guterman
Screenwriter: Lance Khazei
Producers: Erica Huggins, Scott Kroopf
Executive producers: Toby Emmerich, Kent Alterman, Michele Weiss, Beau Marks, Mike Richardson
Director of photography: Greg Gardiner
Production designer: Leslie Dilley
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Debra Neil Fisher
Costume designer: Mary E. Vogt
Visual effects supervisor: James E. Price
Music: Randy Edelman
Cast:
Tim Avery: Jamie Kennedy
Loki: Alan Cumming
Odin: Bob Hoskins
Tonya: Traylor Howard
Daniel Moss: Steven Wright
Jorge: Kal Penn
Dr. Neuman: Ben Stein
Alvey: Liam and Ryan Falconer
MPAA rating: PG
Running time -- 86 minutes...
Loud, mean-spirited and generally obnoxious, Son of the Mask makes the boisterous 1994 original look downright demure and refined.
Director Lawrence Guterman, of Cats and Dogs fame, and his crack visual effects team are so busy showing off how far digital technology has advanced in the past decade that no one ever bothers to stop for a second to check if there are any workable characters or a story that makes any sense.
The result is a garish mess of a movie that spins wildly out of control early on and never looks back.
Squarely aimed at kids (presumably those with ADD), the New Line release may initially draw Kennedy's WB Network and Malibu's Most Wanted fan base, but its overall boxoffice will unlikely come anywhere close to the $120 million nabbed by the original.
Where the first Mask transformed Carrey's timid bank clerk, the new edition centers on Kennedy's Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist whose name references Tex Avery, the famed animator whose classic, energetic work inspired the first Mask film and has been cannibalized here.
A reluctant new dad, Tim has no idea what he's in for. Not only was his son conceived while Tim was in full Mask mode -- meaning it's only a matter of time before the baby exhibits some very unusual behavior -- but also the cursed item is being sought by the relentless Loki (Alan Cumming), the mischievous son of Norse god Odin (Bob Hoskins).
To further amp up the ensuing chaos, the pooch also gets its snout into the mask, turning Tim's household in a whirling dervish of computer-generated mayhem.
Failing to recapture the style and manic but focused energy of the original, Guterman's direction and Lance Khazei's script instead flail around in a dozen directions at once, with grating results.
Not quite blessed with the facial elasticity of his predecessor, Kennedy makes do with his best mugging until the special effects take over, and Cumming, Hoskins and the rest of the cast essentially follow his lead.
And those effects, supervised by James E. Price, are pretty spectacular, if a little disturbing. The centerpiece -- a fully digitized, photorealistic havoc-wreaking baby -- could conceivably induce terrifying nightmares weeks after initial exposure.
Son of the Mask
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema presents a Radar Pictures production in association with Dark Horse Entertainment
A Lawrence Guterman film
Credits:
Director: Lawrence Guterman
Screenwriter: Lance Khazei
Producers: Erica Huggins, Scott Kroopf
Executive producers: Toby Emmerich, Kent Alterman, Michele Weiss, Beau Marks, Mike Richardson
Director of photography: Greg Gardiner
Production designer: Leslie Dilley
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Debra Neil Fisher
Costume designer: Mary E. Vogt
Visual effects supervisor: James E. Price
Music: Randy Edelman
Cast:
Tim Avery: Jamie Kennedy
Loki: Alan Cumming
Odin: Bob Hoskins
Tonya: Traylor Howard
Daniel Moss: Steven Wright
Jorge: Kal Penn
Dr. Neuman: Ben Stein
Alvey: Liam and Ryan Falconer
MPAA rating: PG
Running time -- 86 minutes...
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