So they’re running a short teaser for the new Mask movie during previews at Return of the King.
And it looks really, really lame.
How lame? CGI dancing baby lame. Literally. That’s who stars in the ad - a dancing baby.
I beseech thee, ye gods of movies, PLEASE don’t make the sequel to one of my all-time favorite movies be a craptacular suck-fest centered around a computer-animated infant. Think back and remember — the entire world got sick of dancing babies by the end of the first season of Ally McBeal. Kathleen Turner ended her film career starring in a movie with computer animated babies. BABIES DO NOT MAKE INTERESTING LEAD CHARACTERS!!
You have fantastic source material in some wonderful comic books. USE this gold mine of good ideas.
sigh I fear the movie gods aren’t listening.
Has anyone else heard anything about this movie? (I haven’t the patience to wade through AICN.)
I saw the same preview when I went to see Return of the King.
It looks awful. “Lame” is far too kind an adjective to use, even with two "really"s in front of it.
Based on what they showed in the trailer, I don’t think there is any hope for this movie - but what do I know, it will probably open #1 at the box office.
Too late, Tygr, too late. I also saw the trailer, and IMHO there is absolutely no way to save the movie. They’ve given us the premise, and there is no director alive (or dead) good enough to make this into something even remotely interesting.
I saw and enjoyed the original “The Mask” movie. The initial thing that is appealing is that our main character is an ordinary schmoe who is on the short end of the stick in life and who, regardless of the power he subsequently attains, remains a nice guy. I can relate to that. But now we have a main character who is … a baby. Geez, how g** d*** f***** cute. I had absolutely no relation to that. Oh gee, maybe that’s just one scene, but the movie is about this magic baby growing up! Again, the cuteness vomit meter goes off the scale. No, I just don’t see any way this movie will be anything but uber-lame.
Hey, how else are they going to combat the sheer genius of My Baby’s Daddy?
The first movie was a lot of fun. The comics had a lot of really great stories. Hollywood has a way of ignoring all of that and shitting out super crap. I saw this trailer, and if it weren’t for the fact that I was waiting to see Return of the King, I would have gouged my eyes out. Instead, I just blocked out the memory. Until now…
I may have to pit you for making me remember this travesty. I had successfully blocked it from memory, but nooooo you had to go and bring it up again. tries to rub eyes out
New Line wanted Carrey to do the sequel, but was asking for something like $30 million up front, plus 40% of the gross, plus script approval (which really meant that Carrey and his little writing minions would rewrite the whole thing into a series of dick and fart jokes), and then Carrey kept putting them off and New Line finally said, “Screw You,”
I’m just curious about the meeting where they decided to make this movie. “We want to make a sequel to a Jim Carrey movie, that was based off a comic book. Now, what do Jim Carrey fans and comic book fans both really, really like? I know! BABIES!”
This is the sort of movie idea that makes me want to rent Volcano and laugh while L.A. is lightly coated in molten rock.
I have the same feeling about it as I had when the “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd” trailer went out. Lots of text screens, little or no actual footage, nothing that resembles a coherent plot, none of the original cast - yep, this is gonna suck hard.
I would rather have another “Look Who’s Talking” than THAT. It’s looks like a full movie of the dancing baby of internet fame. 30 seconds of that was enough for me.
Sigh. I too had managed to block all memory of that trailer from my mind. Thanks a lot.
Ah well. Given that I can just hear the words ‘Mask 2’ and know that it will be a Bad Idea, the trailer doesn’t bother me too much. I can just add it to the pile of Movies that don’t really exist and are just the product of bad dreams, and go on with my life. Mask 2? Don’t be silly… no one would make that.
(Incidentally, am I the only one who likes Jim Carrey? I don’t think he’s great, but he’s amusing enough.)
I like Jim Carrey. He’s got some hits and misses, but he can do good stuff when he sets his mind to it. The Truman Show is probably his best movie yet, IMO.
Haven’t seen the trailer yet, but my expectations were already rock-bottom low when I heard the premise…
