Jonathan Huang

Movie Critic

Once in awhile, when you are watching the previews at the movie theatres, you see one and think, “Wow, that is going to be a disastrous disaster”, or “Wow, that looks horrendously horrendous”.  Well, 3 months ago I was unfortunate enough to catch a preview for “Son of the Mask”.  There are no phrases that can describe the awfulness of this movie.  The closest thing that comes to mind is piece of @#$%.  Seriously.

For those of you who haven’t heard of this movie, which is for the better, “Son of the Mask” is the sequel to “The Mask”.  Now “The Mask” was a good movie.  It followed the life of a loser banker played by Jim Carey.  After a horrible day at work and after being kicked out of a club, he stumbles across a magical mask that releases his innermost desires and gives him cartoon-like powers (think along the lines of The Animaniacs).  At the end of “The Mask”, the mask is thrown off into the sea so that its powers would never be used again, since all it really did was wreak havoc.  Fast forward and we stumble upon Tim Avery, played by Jamie Kennedy.  On the way to an office Halloween party, Tim finds the mask and puts it on.  The mask then proceeds to give Tim strange powers and a wacky make over (which looks a lot worse than Jim Cary’s makeover).  He then comes home to his wife, who happens to be on the bed.  Well, one thing leads to another and “magic” happens.  For some reason, she does not mind the fact that he’s wearing the mask while it happens, but this is a horrible movie so no questions asked.

9 months later, his wife has a baby who naturally has the powers of the mask.  I’m guessing the baby has these powers because Tim was wearing the mask while he and his wife were baby-making.  Loki, God of Mischief and the original owner of the mask, gets word from his father, Odin, that the mask needed to be returned to them.  Loki has some serious gel in his hair.  He’s gellin’ like a felon/Magellan.  I think that if he stayed out in the sun for too long, his hair would catch on fire because of all the gel that he was wearing.  So anyways, Loki goes out and begins to search every baby born on Tim’s baby’s birthday to find the mask.  Whackiness ensues, but sadly, the humor in all of it was nonexistent.

The movie is so …dumb.  Even the little kids at the movie theatres were confused.  I feel sorry for Jamie Kennedy and all the other people in the movie because sadly, this movie marks the end of all their short-lived careers.

Honestly, there are many and more benefiting ways to spend 7 dollars rather than watching this movie.  You can burn it, bury it, or heck, buy a Taiwanese Tsunami Relief shirt for 3 dollars more.