 Some critics are suggesting that Son of the Mask is one of those sequels that ought to have gone straight to video. But Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe suggests that it might not be a sequel at all. "It bears no resemblance to the 10-year-old Jim Carrey movie that allegedly inspired it and reeks of a studio desperate to make an easy buck from the memory of one of its hits," he writes. This is not a movie in which the major ingredients are acting and writing, Susan Walker observes in the Toronto Star: "Stars, acting, plot, cute dog, cuter baby -- all take a backseat to a head-spinning array of computer-generated tricks. With so many cuts a second, all attention goes into following the visuals. Just as well, since the story leaves so little to work with," she writes. Similarly, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times concludes his review by remarking: "What we basically have here is a license for the filmmakers to do whatever they want to do with the special effects, while the plot, like Wile E. Coyote, keeps running into the wall." |
