Son of the Mask: What a Sequel This Film Is!
Tim works at an everyday job and he soon realizes that he is going nowhere fast. A coworker encourages him to go up to a big boss type incumbent honcho and the two face off for a moment. The incumbent honcho wants to see some sparks & flair from Avery and Tim makes it a point to find a way (that he can) to impress the big boss man.
Tim is about to leave to go to a Halloween party and decides to dress as a man who has been murdered with an ax. His wife doesn’t like that idea and tells him to wear the mask simply because it might bring him good luck. They have a lot of old and neat stuff in their house . . . Why should he wear this dirty ole mask he finds on a shelf? He decides to wear it anyway and goes to leave.
Well, as fate would have it, Tim is in his car. When Tim is scrambling to find a parking place in the lot, he reaches down to find the mask. He puts it closely to his face, inspecting it. All of a sudden, Tim is sucked in a little bit towards the interior of the mask. He forces it away from his face. Confused, Tim looks at it more closely. Suddenly, the suction of the mask gets the best of him and the mask, therefore, transforms him into ‘The Mask’. ‘The Mask’ makes a grand entrance and seduces all of the people into livening up the party into a modish grand scale affair. The big boss man keeps asking everybody at the event just who that big green guy is.
‘The Mask’ (The Big Green Guy) is the life of the party. ‘The Mask’ is so aroused that when he gets home he and his wife are able to conceive, but it’s, only, through The Mask’s powers that they are able to. The next day, the wife finds out that she’s pregnant. Both Tim and his wife, evidently, realize that this isn’t just a normal baby. It’s a baby, like I stated, that was conceived by and through ‘The Mask’. Even through the ultrasound, the baby dances to the beat of some music (somewhere) inside the wife’s womb. When the baby is, finally, born, the parents are there with him (a baby boy) every step of the way and now the family dog is, well, just really jealous.
Long nights keep Tim awake to tend to the baby’s needs. The baby is more like a cartoon character than a normal baby. Soon the wife has to go away on a business trip leaving Tim and the baby all alone. The house is, literally, turned upside down. And Loki wants his mask back. That’s right! Loki (Alan Cumming) is the God Of Mischief and the son of Odin (Bob Hoskins), the Norse God. The head honcho wants Tim to tell some board members about the big green guy that was seen stirring up commotions and cultivating life at the Halloween party.
Meanwhile, Loki will stop at nothing to find the baby, conceived by the mask, and to find the real & genuine mask belonging rightfully to him and his father. Loki causes quite a stir in finding what’s duly his, but soon he narrows his search down to one house. The family dog can’t take it anymore and decides to dig up the mask, turning into ‘The Mask Dog’, and then facing off head to head with Tim’s baby like a cat & mouse in an animated cartoon show. And as for Tim Avery, . . . He doesn’t know what to think anymore.
“Son Of The Mask”, directed by Lawrence Guterman (“Cats & Dogs”), is just plain fun for the entire family (a must see). Compared to “The Mask”, the sequel, with lots & lots of animated action (seen in animated television shows), is just a, completely, surreal slapstick of a film which, also, I might add, has plenty of comedy, humor, and a moral. The moral of the film, which, clearly, stands out in my mind, is the importance of a father & son relationship (a father should always stick with his son no matter what the case & vice versa).
The importance of a father to his son and a son to his father is the main ingredient that keeps “Son Of The Mask” from straying too far over the edge. Succinctly stated, this movie, with all the animated antics and live action farces, blossoms with magic far beyond belief, stirring the imagination & transforming the human spirit, all at the same time.
“Son Of The Mask” Is Rated PG
Parental Guidance Suggested
