![]() ![]() Sure, `The Mask' is no masterpiece, but it's a clever, charming film that richly deserved its runaway success. (`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. Can Batman stop the Joker's evil scheme to poison everyday household and beauty products with. Stanley-with-the-mask has the soul of a Tex Avery cartoon character: I suspect that's all there is to it. Four-disc set includes: Batman (1989)Tim Burton's blockbuster comic book adaptation pits playboy-turned-dark knight detective Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) against the ghoulishly garish Joker, played with relish by Jack Nicholson. I was told that the film is saturated with animation in-jokes. Lowerys physique and the shows better fight scenes make for a more enjoyable experience. The Dark Knight (2008) Nolan followed up on his Batman debut with the best Batman movie of all time. The second effort at a Batman TV series led to the casting of a bigger actor to play Batman. 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. Robert Lowery ('Batman and Robin' TV show, 1949) Robert Lowery in the 'Batman & Robin' TV show. ![]() 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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