Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2018)

This was the perfect casting of Jim Carrey ever, and the best comic-book based film ever made. Hands down.
And although Carrey has made other interesting and funny films, none have utilized his abilities as this practically made-for-Carrey film has.
The Mask as a character itself is based on all of those cartoons with the redhaired dancer and the wolf, many were made during the WW-II years. One of them even had Red Riding Hood being eaten by the wolf at the end, or at least sitting in his pot.
This was as clever casting as Robin Williams in "Aladdin" or "Mrs Doubtfire", something which we'd never see again. I believe there was even a sequel that is so im-memorable, that it's not even linked to this film in an IMDb search.
That's where this film has a commonality with the Disney Aladdin films, you cannot do a sequel if you cannot reproduce a once in a lifetime performance.
It's that personalities like Carrey and Williams are so dynamic that you can't just replace their characters with new actors.
There were a lot of great character actors in this as well, including Carrey's landlady.
This film could have had a good sequel, should have had one. I had never heard of this director, but he did a great job especially with the primitive CGI, very similar to Burton's work.
It wasn't just Carrey, this was very well directed. And Cameron Diaz did not hurt, either.