Reviews

Hello, I am Matthew  Grade 12, and this is a review of the 4/5, 1994 movie The Mask. The Mask is a 1994 comedy film directed by Chuck Russell, produced by Bob Engelman, and its screenplay written by Mike Werb while being Distributed by New Line Cinema; the movie is based on the comic book series made by Doug Mahnke and John Arcude and published by Dark Horse Comics. The Mask follows Stanley Ipkiss, an mild, insecure banking clerk, down on his luck and with little respect from nearly everyone he meets, living in a small apartment in the shadish Edge City, where after a rough night he finds a green mask with supernatural properties attached to it, and by every night, becomes the green faced troublemaking nut with the ability to cartoonishly alter him and the world that surrounds him, doing what pleases him as an agent of chaos to his deepest desires, eventually getting caught up with a gang ran by the manipulative Dorian Tyrell that threaten to take over the city, all while he must balance his usual life and the consequences of this nightly alter ego and the consequences that come with it in the morning. The movie is great, the perfect balance of wacky entertaining cartoony antics across town to, and the more tense or action filled moments, both of those sides fulfilled well by the cast and their performance (There is a reason this is what launched Jim Carrey into the mainstream after all). Overall The Mask makes the perfect (pg-13+) watch for those who want to have an exciting time.