The Mask - Nostalgia Critic

this episode brought to you by stamps.com why go to the store to get stamps when you can have them printed right at home for your convenience also brought to you by draftkings the official daily fantasy partner of the nfl man i've waited a while to say this our upcoming cons are too many games at the greater philadelphia expo center october 8th to 10th wizard world chicago donald e stephens convention center october 15th to the 17th look for us in the artist ally we're going to do something a little different we're going to do terrible caricatures of everybody so drop on by grand rapids comic con the devos place grand rapids november 12th to the 14th and finally c2e2 mccormick place in chicago december 10th to the 12th we're gonna have a booth at all of them so drop them by say hello we're so excited to be back man can't wait to see [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] i disagree i think i'm wearing her down correct that's what you are if kiss a baby did you back in the laboratory to get your bolts tightened i should have said that correct critic what's the point of this the point is to win and you're doing terrible i have no interest in showing off how well i know the mask and that's why you're losing continue tamra our love is like a red red rose and i am a little thunder shoot shoot the window i don't get correct please i want to eat no food for either of you until we go through every single line don't worry i ate my words when i said this game sounds like fun screw it i'm going to make myself a sandwich uh i wouldn't do that malcolm i really wouldn't and what the hell are you gonna do malcolm don't tempt him you're gonna regret it buddy i'm making myself a sandwich this is your last chance don't be a fool malcolm i don't think he can do a thing well then go ahead go and make yourself a sandwich [Music] he's right i got nothing okay i did this to show i really was obsessed with the mask growing up i know i'm not the only one centered around an odd plasticine cartoon character who puts on a mask this film was the first time state of the art cg effects were used to blend real life and cartoons as opposed to make dinosaurs or aliens come to life when the trailer came out people particularly kids were so excited that someone finally got the idea to use this technology in a zany way and of course this wacky take on technology is used everywhere today even in commercials it also helped that they got the rapidly rising star of jim carrey and the first appearance of cameron diaz as well years later people still look at this film as a fun wild nostalgic throwback before the dark times but i wanted to show that even with my obsessive love of this movie even back then i still knew it wasn't great now don't worry i'm not gonna pan this film at all if anything i'm curious why so much of it still works today when honestly a lot of it shouldn't there's a ton of awkward moments weird lines and standard 90s cliches that were pretty formulaic even back then yet something about it is still charming imaginative and weirdly one of a kind i guess i wanted to make it clear that even though i adore this movie i still wanted to look at objectively for both its pros and cons so now that i think i made my point clear hey critic want some of these gooey messy sandwiches why yes that sounds lovely let me have it this is a weirdly anticlimactic episode let's take a look at the mask i guess i should point out seeing how i did a whole video on it that the film is quite different from the comic the comic is dark violent gory as hell and incredibly mean-spirited it was [ __ ] great that's what they wanted to make when they hired director charles russell who brought more comedy to the nightmare on elm street franchise resulting in a big hit new line was hoping for the mass to be the next freddy krueger but as russell pointed out we already had a freddy krueger so he pushed to do something lighter but still relatively new in fact for better or worse this is one of the perfect examples of transitioning from the aggressive r-rated 80s to the lighthearted pg-13 centered 90s i'd be lying if i said i didn't want to see the comic on the big screen now with big budgets trying to be more daring but in the 90s i can see why they did something more zany and relaxed with that said we open with credits rolling over edge city which i'm pretty sure is the city from babe 2 where a scuba diver stumbles across jumanji but is accidentally taken out unlocking an ancient mask not knowing this yet is stanley ipkis played of course by jim carrey who got concert tickets for his would-be girlfriend but she complained she wanted to take her friend with her instead of him why don't you just go with your friend i couldn't do that no come on boy do i smell chicken because [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] that was the most sickening display i've ever seen i disagree i think i'm wearing her down jim carrey really is the perfect actor to play this role not because of his over-the-top flexibility as the mask though that is certainly important but because of his likability as stanley ipkis most actors i think would play this role too boring to contrast the other personality kerry himself said he didn't want people fidgeting in their seats saying just get to the mask already and i still stand by this is my favorite performance of his as when he does other roles it still feels like a performance a good performance but still performance this just feels like how jim carrey probably was a nice but awkward people pleaser who's very expressive with his face i also like that he doesn't hold back too much he's still a little over the top but in a way you feel like he would be in real life especially given his obsession with cartoons i firmly stand by if kiss didn't work the movie wouldn't work this is fortunate as he and his comic relief charlie almost impressively have no chemistry together hold the phone killer at three o'clock i never noticed it before but these supposed best friends come off more like well actors who just met for the first time on set tonight i'm gonna take you on a love safari deep into the darkest heart of the urban jungle tell me more buana they're not awful they're not even so bad they're funny they just leave no impression as a comic duo that aged great thankfully the chemistry isn't focused on them as much as carrie and then former newcomer cameron diaz she plays tina a charming singer pretending to open an account when really she's a friend for a mob boss what does nikom say about all this things change first we take the bank then we take nico and then my friend's school is out sorry i accidentally put on heat peter green plays a gangster named dorian and i'm pretty sure nobody told him this was supposed to be a comedy cause he plays this role like he's still on the usual suspects did it look like i had much of a choice maybe you did maybe you didn't who knows right while apartment does wish you was funnier it does help offset the goofier moments and give a few more surprises about what's around every corner it's a scene with a gun gonna be funny or suspenseful it helps mix things up speaking of which stanley's repair shop lies about his car being ready so they give him fosse studebaker to go to dorian's club with his friends he gets separated from them though and doesn't mix well with security causing dorian to say lose him twice no but my friends are on the inside lose them hey come on now guys he's been talking like that ever since he did that job with johnny two times i'm gonna go get the papers get the papers things get worse when a car ruins his suit mr kid did you get my splash i slipped the driver at 20 to do that humiliate at the club his car breaks down at a bridge where he stumbles across the ancient mask when he gets home we see he's quite the cartoon nut which as i mentioned before is cleverly worked in and arguably does explain his expressive faces but they're given a massive makeover when he puts on the mask and transforms into the villain from the care bears movie [Music] okay so fun fact carrie apparently improvised that line is the original was snazzy [Music] you know it would suck this is also where we get the intro of the photo realistic cartoon effects which not only hold up pretty well all things considered but carrie's performance does truly embrace them this was new territory for effects like this and he has no idea if they're gonna look good or not but his acting never shows he has any doubt in them if he's told his eyes are popping out in a scene he does his damnedest to act like his eyes are popping out in a scene [Music] [Applause] i thought you'd all like to know by the way these scenes have the official tommy lee jones seal of buffoonery he cannot sanction step right up here don't be shy some of these moments are taken directly from the comic like the balloon animal scene where he makes a tommy gun and the revenge he takes on the car mechanics but instead of having cute little visual jokes on top of the punch line they just die a kid show came from this stanley is questioned by both lieutenant callaway played by peter rieger and a reporter named peggy played by amy yesbeck may i be of some assistance stanley if kiss oh hi exits every scene like he's gonna go jerk off in the corner while interviewing him about the repair shop incident peggy discovers that stanley wrote a letter to her that got published about nice guys finishing last you really think hundreds of women are looking for a guy like me sure i'm one of them the film does a real good job making you think peggy is going to be the wholesome woman stanley goes with and tina is going to be the bad girl that ultimately betrays him right down to once a reporter and once with the mob this makes the twist all the more funny when you discover it's the other way around but the movie has to remind you oh yeah it's a bizarre crime drama too the cops tried to shout the club down this morning [Music] at a rope with a tennis ball hitting his testicles and this would totally be a james bond torture that night stanley dreams about how his encounter with tina might have gone if he was more confident [Music] all right miss diaz for your first film role you're going to take your leading man's head turn it to the side and lick his ear like your stardom is deep inside it you sure this wasn't a weinstein production this gives him the urge to put on the mask again but he needs money so he drops by the bank dorian's men were robbing that knight why's not whatnot they have a look like oh it's that kind of movie i thought this was a sequel to donnie brasco shows up to the club to hear tina sing gives one of the few effects that doesn't hold up that great and dazes to the song you're almost all star sick of but not quite [Music] i guess this is as good a time as any to say the soundtrack is [ __ ] great people always single out this and cuban p but honestly every song is really fantastic in this the director said he wanted the city to really come to life at night as the mass could only come to life at night so he wanted to be a very nightclub centered world and the music definitely helps that combining a strange mix of lounge swing and r b they surprisingly really go together and help already entertaining scenes explode with even more energy i mean every song in this is humble as hell [Music] i'll admit some moments i was afraid went holed up as well as when i first saw them but for whatever reason this quote unquote death scene cracks me the hell up tell tony tim i won't be coming home this christmas i can't even explain why maybe because this guy is supposed to look sad that he's dead while carrie is aggressively manhandling him during his supposed final moments pardon me well that's the closest to an oscar he'll ever get two of my favorite little add-ons are in this joke one is dorian straightening his hair when he discovers he's suddenly being watched and the other is carrie exiting the wrong way like so many winners do on award shows hey callaway better call that high price lawyer viewers tyrell you and i are going downtown for a little chat we just threatened people with guns and fired him in public he got nothing on us once it's revealed that the mass grabbed the bank dorian is set loose and puts out a hit on the green menace 50 grand to the man who finds that green face son of a [ __ ] before the cops i want you to get the word out to every street hustler every low life in this town i want you to hit up every 90s gangster in black suits driving black cars using this voice [Applause] [Music] douglas this is the maker demon god no i'm not sure if our sponsors are cool using that term you must use stamps.com if you've got a small business you know that there's nothing more valuable than your time so stop wasting it on trips to the post office.com makes it easy to mail it right from your computer save time and money 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interested thanks for everything stanley you'd like to see him again wouldn't you [Music] anyone else get a serial killer vibe from that look you'd like to see him again wouldn't you he'd like to see you too all of you he puts a lotion on his skin he takes his mask to a professor played by ben stein who connects it back to the ancient trickster loki possibly a representation of one of the norse knight gods maybe loki who's loki loki is bank stein's under acting perfectly offsets carrie's overacting and i legit love that nobody figures out because loki is a night god it would only work at night so this reaction is always a surprise and gets a big laugh [Music] this is why i don't believe in evolution you have the pickle relish doyle get in the car but i ordered onion rings i should point out this is the very sudden beginning of callaway and his assistant doyle doing the smart cop dumb cop routine at first doyle is just a normal guy he talks with callaway like anyone else would well we got some fingerprints on some of the currency but nothing matches terrell's men looks like this guy beat him into the punch but halfway through they spontaneously make him a dumbass always getting on callaway's nerves it's completely out of nowhere doyle shut up and help me down all right start dancing i'll blow your brains out wow you're a real hero it'd be like if timon and pumbaa halfway through lion king changed gears and became a no-nonsense cop duo it'd be out of left field but kind of funny too stanley stanley meets tina at landfill park the city is so close to having a strong identity but he changes into the mask much to her delight confusion fear it's a little hard to get a read on her in these scenes the cops try to arrest him but he outsmarts them only to be cornered by a swat team this leads to let's face it what you've been humming since you saw the thumbnail for this video pete is one of the catchiest ear worms in a soundtrack that already has a lot of ear worms i have to admit though when i think of pure silly joy in a movie this sequence always pops in my head it is the most upbeat surreal out of nowhere musical number at the time since deo from beetlejuice i feel like if this was done today they do some sort of modern pop song i really give credit that they stuck with something more traditionally zany this cop in particular does a really amazing job [Music] really think about what she has to do she has to be in cop mode start singing well in cop mode get across the singing is against her will indicate her body is going through the same thing and then be totally possessed by the mask's powers all within the span of just five seconds as well as while a surf ninja poster is staring her in the face i don't know even if i saw this all going on i'd still be distracted what the hell is surf ninjas [Music] oh and she can dance for not even having a minute of screen time that cop leaves quite an impression finds a corner and takes the mask off i never understood why but peggy is there to help him escape my life is wrecked stanley opens up to peggy who at first seemed sympathetic but as mentioned she was working for dorian what are you doing you really are a great guy i just can't lose my condo if it makes you feel any better stanley i don't think sex with her would have worked out anyway assistant don't mess with me i got my sideways gun man with me bro this is where the movie gets a little dumb if you're like me you were excited to see what the mask would do with a criminal like dorian would it make him wild and zany or would it turn him into some sort of out there monster like in the later comics well it pushes him forward a few feet and just makes him bigger and meaner you okay better than ever you idiot dorian with the mask feels like one of the lesser villains from captain planet he says very generic villain lines does very generic villain stuff this is your big production number just wait i will be your host for the remainder of the evening even the design is kind of lame he kind of looks like a green version of that terminator toy when the hair stayed on admittedly though he does look better than every movie version of the green goblin back off freakazoid oh i should point out there was a deleted scene that showed peggy dying and yeah it was deleted with good reason the guy who did nightmare 3 you don't say dorian drops him off to the cops who put him in jail because yeah she does technically belong there but he's visited by tina hey yo with the face before he was a household name that's how jim carrey was referred to they talk about the power of the mask what dorian could do with it and the special if not strange relationship they have together thanks for what for being the only guy who treated me like a person and not some sort of party favor yes he really loved you for your personality okay to her credit i think she was talking about him when he wasn't wearing the mask but that doesn't mean she has to follow all the way through with a kiss i've got to disappear for a while now stanley baby there you are i needed someone to tell me how stupid my suit was you playing a little trip without me baby no no jesus it's the mask peter green is like what i read the comic oh we forgot to have that talk um yes that's the kind of movie we're making but it's not i'm not telling him that he'll kill me stanley uses his dog milo to get the keys from the cops and i gotta say as animal actors go milo is one of the best in cinematic history this dog has so much personality and is so ridiculously well trained put the cheese down and get the keys over there if there was like an animal oscars he would totally get an award that year ah close it stanley gets out taking cal away with him it may be one of the best doyle reactions in the movie come on well that invites no follow-ups as dorian gets revenge on his boss and plans to blow up the nightclub i was talking to her but that works too crap stanley is captured but tina has a plan of her own there's no time for last requests but all i wanted was a kiss i guess i really didn't need to see masked dorian's thirst face nobody ever kissed me like dorian tyrone you know i saw this in every saturday morning show ever me but i doubt it'll end the same way those did all crap milo gets the mask and puts it on this dog is actually such a good actor no cg was used in the filming of these scenes stanley gets the mask back on resulting in a weird jump cut that always drove me a little crazy oh christ i have seen this film too much and he uses his power to get rid of the bomb and dorian as well that might be the one time carrie didn't know a face to have for a scene he has a look like you took the last french crueler and i am not gonna let you forget about it he turns back into himself and seems to be off the hook as everyone except calloway thinks dorian was the mask all along i want to see you in my office first thing tomorrow that's your honor boy that doesn't sound good at all oh it doesn't sound good what would sound good to you breakfast shut up they drive to the bridge where the mask was found and decide to get rid of it for good you sure you know what you're doing buddy i'm sure it's time to give jamie kennedy a chance to ruin his career the mask is tossed over but not before charlie goes diving in after it yeah that stolen sounded awful and that was the mask by no means perfect but the parts that work are insanely likable a lot of this is around jim carrey both as the mask but especially stanley ipkis he gives an energized yet unique spin on the lovable loser that i feel actors have borrowed from since this film came out but on top of that the effects mostly hold up it's colorful has a great soundtrack at times can be awkward but i feel like that can slide because the film is so focused on giving you a good time it's a corny old-fashioned good time but a good time nonetheless so whether you obsessed over it like i did when you were a kid maybe hated it as an adult or were just indifferent to it there's definitely stuff about it that's a little clunky but a lot more that holds real merit it's never too late to go back and give yourself another smoking good time oh yeah if you're such a super fan of the movie what friend of jim carrey was also considered for the role what does it matter clearly no one would be better for the part oh not even nicholas cage [Music] [Music] yeah nobody can operate properly once they have that in their heads hey if we brought it up how come we're not traumatized you say oh yeah hey doug walker here doing the charity shout out and this was a another recommendation so thank you so much for that uh this is the elephant sanctuary in tennessee and the address is very easy to remember elephants dot com very very simple uh but let me tell you more about it uh this is the nation's largest nash uh natural habitat refuge developed specifically for endangered african and asian 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Id: j7M21Or3Dco

Length: 28min 5sec (1685 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021