One of the best superhero and comedy movies altogether

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2019)

Normally I'm not a big fan of superhero movies as they usually have a skeletal plot mainly being good vs. evil, the screenplays are usually not tight, the editing is always weak, their movies tend to drag making some audience members die of boredom and the acting is never usually great with actors usually hamming or underperforming their part. Superhero movies usually target children, teenagers, geeks & nerds, people who love action and don't care for meaningful cinema and other sorts of audience members. The biggest problem I have with superhero movies is that they don't really feel like movies but it's more like one is going to an amusement park or something else.
Comedy movies aren't that good either as they're usually exhibit an immature, raunchy, silly or young nature especially the comedy movies of the last 2 decades.
But this movie proved that superhero and comedy movies can be good with the right content and humor provided and boy oh boy does Jim Carrey give such a knockout performance. In fact, this is Jim Carrey's best comedy work to date and he hasn't followed up with a comedy this brilliant since. Gosh I miss this Jim Carrey as he has aged and moved on.
The movie starts off with a typically bland note and we are introduced to Stanley, a stereotypical shy nice man who lets people take advantage of him and doesn't say anything then he comes across a mysterious mask and wears it.
Once he wears the mask, he becomes "The Mask" and what follows up is several humorous scenes. The funniest scene is the chick-chicki boom scene and the pre-climax fight scene is super hilarious especially the Dog wearing the mask.
A big problem with this movie is that the movie drags in between and parts of this boring, but otherwise this movie was great comedy for its time.
Direction is decent Editing is weak too many unrequired scenes in the screenplay
Jim Carrey steals the show and is perfect in his role both in his nice guy character and as the mischievous Mask superhero. In fact he is the soul of this movie and his brand of comedy makes this movie all the more watchable and uplifts the value of this movie.
Cameron Diaz looks good and is okay in her part, Peter Reigert is very good, Peter Greene is okay, Richard Jeni is fun to watch and the rest are alright.