At the same time, this movie is clearly inspired in many ways on several cartoons, such as the Looney Tunes, Tex Avery's 'Red Hot Riding Hood' and even the live action/animation movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'. Yet, despite its cartoonish humor, it also works well as a thriller and has a dark atmosphere. The Mask is a cartoonish figure that can do incredible things.This film is a crazy comedy, a film that surpasses the limits of imagination. For example, he can dance like Fred Astaire, Gumby and Barishnikov all together - and he can flirt with the gorgeous Tina Carlyle. The mask gives him superpowers and courage to do things he wouldn't be able to do without it. or at least what he wants to be but can't be without the mask.
Stanley likes to watch cartoons particularly a Tex Avery one with a whistling wolf, decorates his apartment with items from these cartoons and he has the most unusual pajama : Jim Carrey also portrays the title character The Mask, which is the other side of Stanley Ipkiss. He doesn't have much friends, except for his co-worker Charlie and his loyal dog Milo a Jack Russell Terrier. He is «the nicest guy», yet shy and somewhat depressed and he does not have much success in his job and personal life. He is a very nice and easy-going guy with great sense of humor which matches his funny name. Īll time, if not his very best.In 'The Mask' Jim Carrey portrays Stanley Ipkiss, a clerk in a nice Edge City bank. Besides, we've had later films where that subtext has been closer to the heart of a story, such as Catwoman 2004, and where it was very thoroughly and competently dealt with.Many aspects of The Mask differed from the comic book source material, but this is a case where the changes led to such an excellent result that most people have forgotten about the source material and primarily remember Carrey's performance in this film as definitive. It would be fine to explore further, but to do so in this particular film would have taken too much time away from Carrey's surrealistic tour de force. On its surface, the film is a crazy, often funny, hyperactively paced cinematic pastiche.The subtext about identity and public faces versus private selves is interesting, but not the focus.
The audience is treated to everything from silent film slapstick to lavish musical numbers with excellent songs, frenzied Tex Avery-styled animation to gangster film suspense. The other cast members are fine in supporting roles, with Cameron Diaz coming across as being almost otherworldly beautiful, but Carrey is rarely off-screen, and rightly so.The Mask is notable for both spoofing almost the whole history of cinema while at the same time respectfully paying homage to it. Of course, the amazing special effects and make-up help, as well as the clever script and more than competent directing and cinematography, but with the wrong actor in the part, the whole affair could have easily collapsed. The success of the film wholly depends on Carrey, as he has to sell his characters' frenzied insanity so that it's believable as a reflection of Stanley's inner self while at the same time likable but teetering on the edge of becoming obnoxiously overbearing. It not only allowed provided the perfect justification to flamboyantly engage in his rubber-faced antics in a manner even more over-the-top than what he'd become famous for, but it provided an opportunity to stretch his acting chops towards a more serious side at just the right time in his career, paving the way for later work such as Man on the Moon 1999, The Majestic 2001 and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004.
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