He seems tickled to let the ILM wizards use his face and body as digital Silly Putty he’s half-man, half-‘toon. Of course, Crazylegs Carrey is his own special effect, and the film turns him loose to twist, gyrate and contort at will. As the Mask, Stanley can change shape, fly out of windows, dance Tina into a sexual frenzy, explode cars, grow guns out of his arms, mimic Dirty Harry and launch into a Desi Arnaz number to distract the cops. George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic performs miracles with the special effects. Milo is as thunderstruck as the audience. Then, zap, he’s a green-faced human tornado in a zoot suit. Stanley is a loser until he puts on the mask. But Stanley can’t get by the bouncer or figure out that Tina’s been flirting with him because her hood boyfriend, Dorian (Peter Greene), plans to rob the bank. That’s where bank customer Tina Carlyle - dishy model Cameron Diaz in her film debut - sings for her supper. His pal Charlie (Richard Jeni) urges Stanley to cut loose at the Coco Bongo club. Carrey plays nerdy bank teller Stanley Ipkiss, a dud who turns stud when he covers his face with a mask that he finds by chance and brings home to the dump apartment he shares with Milo, a Jack Russell terrier who steals every scene Carrey doesn’t snatch first. The Mike Werb script is strictly comic-strip formula, but it does the job.
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It’s the summer’s funniest movie - a lowbrow farce done with high-tech expertise by director Chuck Russell ( A Nightmare on Elm Street 3) and a flair for mischief that is uniquely Carrey’s. Though Carrey remains on a collision course with good taste, The Mask makes a persuasive case for reconsideration. So call him jerkier than Jerry Lewis, geekier than Jim (Ernest) Varney and more manic than Robin Williams. He did Ace and The Mask for peanuts ($350,000 and $450,000, respectively) now he’ll collect $5 million for playing the Riddler in Batman Forever and $7 million for doing the obvious in Dumb and Dumber. The 32-year-old Ontario native - the lone white guy on TV’s In Living Color (memorably nutso as the pyromaniacal Fire Marshal Bill) - is on a roll. The reviews were scalding (“He’s a hyper goon,” said Roger Ebert), but audiences voted thumbs up by making Ace a $70 million box-office bonanza and Carrey a star. Back in February, this rubber-cheeked, pinwheel-eyed loony with a mouthful of piano keys starred in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective as a dick who talked through his ass, played football in a tutu and twisted his face with a toilet plunger. It’s the year of Jim Carrey, and critics are still in denial.
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