![]() ![]() (`The Mask' failed to win an Oscar in the special effects category - like so many other more deserving films, it was beaten by `Forrest Gump'.) The Cuban dance numbers are irresistible, as is Stanley's pet dog. It never looks pasted over the top of the footage the way so much computer animation does. The computer animation, or the computer-enhancement of Carrey's animation, is tastefully done. Stanley-with-the-mask has the soul of a Tex Avery cartoon character: I suspect that's all there is to it. ![]() I was told that the film is saturated with animation in-jokes. SOME of the clichés (those to do with the police especially) are so very worn out that even the most thorough of movie-goers is surprised to find them still alive but the writer seems to have been honestly unaware that they were clichés, so that's okay. It's pulled off with such an air of innocence I can't possibly complain. The two are as integrated as they need to be. ![]() The story is ABOUT someone with a double life - so by day, Carrey does all the character and story stuff, and by night, wearing the mask, he does his stand-up schtick. `Ace Ventura' was unendurable.) And yet, what else can you do with him? The `Mask' solves the problem so neatly it almost cheats. He's very good at his rapid-fire mimicry routine, but how can it ever be anything other than a diversion from both character and story? (Very rarely is it a pleasant diversion.
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