Son of the Mask (2005)

Germany, United States of America

Fantasy, Comedy, Family, Adventure

New Line Cinema, Kumar Mobiliengesellschaft mbH & Co. Projekt Nr. 1 KG, Dark Horse Entertainment, Radar Pictures

Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Traylor Howard, Kal Penn, Steven Wright, Ben Stein

Lawrence Guterman

Lance Khazei, Lance Khazei

Taglines: Who's next?

mask, baby, superhero, transformation, villain, surrealism, viking, based on comic, slapstick comedy, dog, urban setting, wisecrack humor, super villain, norse mythology, supernatural power

Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.

Reviews:

Author: r96sk
Just as awful as I had anticipated. With that said, it's nothing so bad that it offended me - it's simply totally and utterly bad, to the point I kinda find it hard to hate on it because I just don't have any thoughts on it. It is, without question, undoubtedly worse than 1994's 'The Mask' in every conceivable way though. Jamie Kennedy's version of this Dark Horse Comics character is truly dreadful, especially visually, though thankfully the film doesn't actually give that much air time to Kennedy as The Mask; like, he's there but it's predominantly the dog and the son that get much of the screen time alongside Alan Cumming's Loki - to slightly better effect too, the way the kid is animated kinda nearly works... it doesn't, but almost. Ryan Reynolds, according to Kennedy himself, possibly wanted this role. It's lucky Reynolds didn't get his way, or he'd be stuck with a green ghoul in his past. Oh, wait! 4/10 is probably generous on my part, though there are far worse films out there that actually annoy me - 'Son of the Mask' honestly doesn't. It kinda just exists and I'm almost nonplussed about it.