FULL MOVIE: The Mask (1994)

Unable to enter the Coco Bongo to watch Tina perform and after his faulty loaner car breaks down while driving home, Stanley despairingly looks over the harbor bridge, lost in thought of what to do. His stream of thought is interrupted, however, when he finds a strange wooden mask near the harbor.

Upon returning to his apartment and donning the mask, he becomes a mischievous green-faced figure known as “The Mask”, who can cartoonishly alter himself and his surroundings at will. With his newfound confidence and lack of inhibitions, Stanley indulges in a comical rampage through the city, humiliating several of his tormentors, including his temperamental landlady, Agnes Peenman, and the mechanics who gave him the faulty car.

The next morning, Stanley encounters detective Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway and newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt, both of whom are investigating the Mask’s activity. To obtain the funds necessary to attend Tina’s performance, Stanley again dons the mask and raids the bank, inadvertently foiling Tyrell’s robbery in the process.

At the Coco Bongo, Stanley becomes infatuated with Tina, who he ends up kissing after sharing an exuberant dance sequence with her. Shortly after, after Tyrell confronts him for disrupting the robbery and stealing his girlfriend, Stanley flees, leaving behind a scrap of cloth from his suit, which turns back into a piece of his pajamas.

After arresting Tyrell and his henchman, Kellaway finds the piece of cloth and suspects Stanley to be the perpetrator. The next day, Stanley consults Doctor Arthur Neuman, a psychiatrist who has recently published a book on masks and deduces that the mask is a creation of Loki. It is also revealed that the mask’s powers are only active at night.

Later that night, Stanley meets Tina at a local park as the Mask, which initially disturbs her, along with being too strong and wild towards her, but he manages to win her over with his charm and sweet nature to the point they are about to kiss until they are interrupted by Kellaway, who attempts to capture him. Stanley flees with Peggy after he manages to distract the police with a mass performance of the titular song from Cuban Pete; she then betrays him to Tyrell, who was released due to insufficient evidence connecting him or his henchmen to the robbery, for a fifty thousand dollar bounty. Tyrell dons the mask, becoming a bulky and malevolent green-faced being. Tyrell’s henchmen force Stanley to reveal where the stolen money is, before turning him in to the police.

When Tina visits Stanley in the station, he urges her to leave the city. Tina thanks Stanley for showing her kindness and warmth she wasn’t used to and tells him he didn’t need the mask to be special to her. She attempts to flee, but is kidnapped by Tyrell and forcibly taken to a charity ball at the Coco Bongo, hosted by Niko and attended by the city’s elite, including the mayor.

Upon arrival, the masked Tyrell kills Niko and prepares to destroy the club with a time bomb. Milo, Stanley’s dog, helps Stanley escape from the station by retrieving the keys from the guard. Stanley then sets out to stop Tyrell, taking Kellaway hostage.

After locking Kellaway in his car, Stanley enters the club and manages to enlist the help of Charlie, but is soon after discovered and captured. Tina tricks Tyrell into taking off the mask, which is recovered and donned by Milo, who battles his way through Tyrell’s henchmen as Stanley and Tyrell fight against each other.

After recovering the mask, Stanley uses it to save Tina by disposing of the bomb seconds before it detonates, and then defeats Tyrell by sending him down the drain of the club’s ornamental fountain. The police arrive and arrest Tyrell’s henchmen. Kellaway attempts to arrest Stanley again, but the mayor intervenes, telling Kellaway and the police that Tyrell was the Mask all along as a way of releasing Stanley. After Stanley and his allies leave, the mayor informs Kellaway that he needs to have a serious meeting with him in the morning.

The following day, Stanley, now exonerated and not wanting to encounter the police again, decides to dispose of the mask at the harbor, informing Tina that he will henceforth just be himself. She discards it before sharing a kiss with Stanley, to his delight. During this, Charlie tries to retrieve the mask for himself, only for Milo to swim away with it.

• Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
• Stars: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert
• Runtime: 101mins

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