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The next generation of mischief...

Son of the Mask is the 2005 sequel to the 1994 Jim Carrey fantasy one-act The Mask, which was itself based on the Dark Horse Comics series of the aforementioned proper noun near a magical dark-green mask that gives strange, about unlimited powers to anybody who wears it, merely besides causes them to lose all their inhibitions and cocky-control. The violent tone of the comics was toned downwards in the first motion picture accommodation to adapt Carrey'south one-act stylings, so fans clamoring for a more loyal adaptation were displeased even more when Son of the Mask reduced the way farther, to the indicate of making it (supposedly) family-oriented.

The plot concerns failed cartoonist Tim Avery (Jamie Kennedy), who is afraid of conceiving a child with his wife Tonya (Traylor Howard) because he believes his kid would be ashamed of him and his expressionless-cease job. Only then, he gets a hold of the Mask, which works its usual magic, transforming him into the green-faced cartoony maverick that not only becomes the toast of the visitor political party, only also impregnates his wife without his consent. (Non rape, mind you!)

Nine months later, out pops immature Alvey Avery, the titular son of the Mask, who'southward sometimes cute, simply mostly an insufferable sadist and smack dab in the middle of the Uncanny Valley. When Tonya leaves town for business, Tim is left taking intendance of him, and Alvey proceeds to drive his dad totally insane with his bizarre abilities - which he does not demand the Mask to use. Joining the battle royale is the family dog, Otis, who wears the Mask and uses its powers to try to kill Alvey because he doesn't want to compete for Tim's attention.

Simply that'due south not the end of it! The Norse god of mischief and original creator of the Mask, Loki himself (Alan Cumming) is making the rounds, trying to observe the Mask to take information technology back to Valhalla because it'southward caused besides much trouble in the human globe, under the instruction of his dad, Odin the All-Father (Bob Hoskins). The motion picture'southward climax features a Mask'd Tim and Loki duking it out over possession of both the Mask and the Son it has spawned.

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Tropes:

• Aberrant Limb Rotation Range: Alvey does this when Tim mentions The Exorcist.
• An Aesop: About the importance of getting forth with your family, delivered past Tim.
• Alternating Continuity: This motion picture flat out ignores the cartoon series which was made as a direct follow-up and sequel to the starting time movie.
• Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Loki's boxing band at the film'southward climax.
• Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese theme for the picture is "Mask" by Tackey & Tsubasa.
• Agreeable Injuries
• Animals Lack Attributes: Otis the dog is partly played past a real dog and partly by horrifying animation. When the dog is existent, information technology obviously has the equipment you would look but as soon as it puts on the mask and becomes animated the downstairs department is noticeably lacking. This could take been handwaved as being an issue of the mask itself, had information technology not been for the fact that the whole premise of the movie is that a man male impregnates his wife whilst wearing the mask, non to mention the original picture had Milo, Stanley's canis familiaris, also wearing the mask and peeing on one of the thugs. With a visible penis.
• Artistic License – Geography: OK, so, Fringe City is located 270 miles southwest of Edge City. Stanley Ipkiss tossed the Mask into the sea ten years previously. At the start of the movie, it'southward floating upriver near Tim's domicile. So, to recap: not simply did the Mask float the incorrect way upwards the river, information technology also took ten years to travel 270 miles. And information technology's going at about five miles per hour.
• Artistic License – Faith: Loki was Odin'southward friend and blood brother, non his son.
  • Not to mention that they were from two different worlds: Odin from Asgard, Loki from Utgard/Jotunheim.
• Badass Longcoat: Loki has one.
• Condign the Mask: Tim and Otis. ^note Literally, of course!
• Phone call-Dorsum: The fetus of Alvey was singing Cuban Pete just like the Mask in the original pic.
• The Cameo: Ben Stein reprises his role as Prof. Arthur Newman.
• Children Raise You: "Y'all made me grow up."
• Metropolis of Chance: Fringe Urban center, 270 miles southwest of Edge Urban center.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Well, stand up-alone sequel to put it techincally, merely Loki serves as this to Dorian. Dorian was a regular man while Loki is a God. Dorian's actions stemmed from greed and power and is proven to be more heartless while Loki's actions stemmed from father problems and is shown to be more than redeemable.
• Cool Machine: Tim'southward car at the end is possibly the only cool thing in this movie.
  • Don't forget Loki's black and greenish '66 Ford Mustang Coupe. That was a pretty nice car.
• Deadpan Snarker: Loki is often bitter and sarcastic, peculiarly toward his father, Odin.
  • "I'g a god of friggin' mischief. What did you expect?"
  • "Y'all always fix me up to fail. At least in that respect, I'm living upward to your expectations."
• Denser and Wackier: The film takes this to such an unprecedented degree that it'south well-nigh fatal.
• Deranged Animation: While it is done in CGI, Alvey and the dog when donning the mask are animated in a psychotic way, qualifying them for this trope.
• Did You Only Flip Off Cthulhu?: Tim walks up to Odin, the king of Norse gods and says "Concord on a infinitesimal, Grizzly Adams!"
• Dolled-Up Installment: The film is based on the script "Infant Formula" by Lance Khazei.
• Irksome Surprise: Played for Laughs when Loki throws a mask at Dr. Newman, who doesn't even flinch subsequently it bounces off his head, he just says "Ow." Fifty-fifty when his face is taken off, he barely reacts at all.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Tim ultimately becomes a cartoonist, but he has to go through a lot of crap to brand it happen. Odin likewise finally allows Loki to return to Valhalla subsequently Tim gives the mask back.
• Enfante Terrible: Pretty much poked fun at throughout the entire movie, as Alvey isn't an evil infant, but he'south simply feels that his own father doesn't intendance about him, so he attempts to drive him insane, literally.
• Everytown, America: Fringe City.
• Evil Quondam Folks: Odin is Master of the Norse Gods, and is Supreme Ruler of Midgard & Valhalla.
  • "LOKI!"
  • Although he's non really evil, he just wants to stop the trouble caused by the mask.
• Evil Program: Averted; in that location is no unmarried villainous plan driving the plot. There are, however, a number of smaller ones.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: Alvey and Otis' boxing royale.
• Fanservice: V words: Alan Cumming in a speedo.
• Forcibly Formed Physique: Happens to Otis afterwards falling victim to his own trap, he is pulled through an ac vent causing him to take the shape of a cube.

• Goth: Loki.
• Groin Attack: Loki gets bitten in the junk by Otis.
  • Tim gets headbutted in the nuts by his neighbor'southward rowdy kid while visiting them with his wife.
• Hoist past His Own Petard: Happens to Otis several times any fourth dimension he tries to murder Alvey.
• Humanoid Abomination: Alvey. He doesn't need to clothing whatsoever sort of Mask to accept all the powers that normally go with it.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Loki does this briefly, after Alvey chooses to get with Tim and Tonya instead of staying with him. When the camera pulls away a moment later, he'due south standing in a puddle of tears.
• Jealous Pet: Otis didn't like Alvey Avery at first, since his original "dog firm" became Alvey's room.
• Jerkass: Alvey and Loki (and Odin, to a degree).
• Lamarck Was Right: The premise of the movie is that considering Tim was wearing the mask when he had sex with Tonya, Alvey inherited all the powers of a mask wearer without needing to wear one himself.
• Big Ham: Alan Cumming'southward performance every bit Loki was one of the very few good things people had to say about the moving picture.
• Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The baby transforms into Woody Woodpecker for a couple of seconds at i point, for some reason.
• Lighter and Softer: Even more and so than the showtime movie, which was this compared to the comic it was based on.
• Look Behind Yous: Loki manages to distract Odin, who possessed a police officer and trying to stop him from killing Tim at the time, past exclaiming that there's Balder.

  Loki: Look, Dad, there'due south Balder!

• Made in Land 10: The Exotic Fake Mask with words engraved: "Made In Pakistan".
• Manchild: Tim'south opening scene has him playing Mario Kart: Super Circuit on a Game Boy Accelerate SP while his married woman tries to talk to him... which wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't making ridiculous faces, gyrating effectually and clutching information technology with all the grace of a monkey trying to figure out how to open up a can of beans.
• Mandatory Motherhood: Tim didn't desire a kid, but the Mask took over his torso and impregnated his wife.
• Mask of Ability
• Ms. Fanservice: A bespectacled woman wears a slinky blackness kitty-cat costume to the part Halloween political party, to which the professional and monogamous Tim as the mask does a wild accept on her. In order to bring her out of her beat, Tim wraps the woman up like a mummy, spins her into a tornado, thereby unraveling her, ultimately changing her costume into a red swimsuit. You know... typical office flirting.
  • Tim'southward best friend, Jorge (Kal Penn) catches the woman equally she falls, following upward on a romance that was simply barely briefed on earlier.
• Mythology Gag: When Tim's boss, Daniel Moss (Steven Wright), approaches him with concepts for different cartoons, he first comes up with the idea to base it on the Mask "graphic symbol" he's been hearing so much about lately, since he sees and so much potential in it, fifty-fifty eventually making it into a film and turning information technology into a franchise. Instead, that concept gets tossed aside at the end of the motion picture for a drawing well-nigh a baby and a canis familiaris competing for their father's affection, based on Alvey and Otis' lethal cat-and-mouse experiences.
• Oh, Crap!: When Tim tries to become Alvey to say mama, it works and it'south cute like when most babies do it, but when he tries to get him to say dada...

  Tim: Say dada.

  Alvey: [Overly masculine voice.] Mother.

• Pac-Homo Fever: Tim is seen playing Mario Kart: Super Excursion on his Game Boy Advance SP... merely random stock beeping sounds come out of his GBA, and he's holding it right to his face with his fingers pressing downwardly on elevation of the buttons similar an old arcade tabletop, and the world's most gormless facial expression.
• Pivot-Pulling Teeth: Loki does this... with a little tongue too.
• Plot Hole: Several, how did they become the Mask dorsum?
  • Stanley Ipkiss threw the mask into the river, and Milo and Charlie both jumped in to get it, and Milo is seen swimming away with it at the end. Alternatively, the sequel shows Otis finding the mask in another river.
  • It was stated in the first movie that the mask only works at nighttime, but Otis was able to utilize the mask's power in the day without any explanation given.
• Questionable Consent: Tim has sex with Tanya while under the Mask's influence, which she didn't realize (he crawled into bed in the dark). It's quite likely she wouldn't accept if his advent was clear to her. This leads to the conception of her son too, and so at that place'due south the implication that he may be a Child by Rape.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: Mask'd Otis is all CGI.
  • A more traditional example would be Alvin'south vision of seeing his father landed in a psychiatric hospital due to nobody assertive the fact that he was being tormented by his mask power-endowed i-twelvemonth-old son, which has the surrounding environment (albeit crudely) traditionally animated, with a alive-action Tim interacting with the storybook-esque environs. Don't worry, information technology makes just equally much sense reading it as it does watching the scene itself.
• Sadly Mythtaken: Odin and Loki are not father and son in Norse Mythology, they are bond brothers. Information technology'due south such a huge mistake that either the writers just didn't care or their only familiarity with Norse mythology was from Marvel's version. They're second cousins at nigh. And Loki would not take fooled Odin by telling him Balder was coming dorsum because Balder is expressionless... considering Loki killed him (indirectly, but still).
  • Threatening people with lightning was more Thor'due south schtick; Odin was a God of Magic. True, that's all-encompassing, but you lot could effort.
• Shout-Out: Tons and tons of 'em.
  • Tim Avery'due south name is an homage to cartoonist Tex Avery.
  • Tim's dog is named Otis, an homage to Milo And Otis due to Stanley'south dog being named Milo.
  • Alvey transforms into Woody Woodpecker at one bespeak in the movie, and is seen watching several famous cartoons, including the Chuck Jones brusk 1 Froggy Evening, The Flintstones, and Transformers. ^note The Armada version to be precise.
  • Alvey'south caput spins all the way around, like in The Exorcist when he says that he'll take Alvey to an exorcist.
  • While still in the womb, Alvey performs the Cuban Pete vocal.
  • The fights betwixt Alvey and Otis are very reminiscent of the onetime Wile E. Coyote / Route Runner cartoons, downwards to Otis sketching his plans on a blueprint exactly similar the ones Wile East. used.
  • While wearing the Mask, Tim does impressions of Mel Gibson ("Gimme back my son!"), Ozzy Osbourne (in a deleted scene), some kind of Neil Diamond / Tom Jones lounge vocaliser hybrid, Al Pacino in Scarface ("Say howdy to my lilliputian friend!"), not to mention of Jim Carrey himself ("Ssssmokin! ...causes cancer!")
  • "And then Loki said, allow there be a brick wall..."
  • Believe it or not, the "Tin can't Take My Eyes Off of You" sequence was taken right from one of the Mask miniseries, one of the few things they did have.
• Sibling Rivalry: Loki's jealousy over his blood brother Thor.
• Slapstick: Probably the purest example of this trope at its very worst.
• Squashed Flat: Otis is wrung flat (while wearing the mask, of course) after one of his plans to impale Alvey goes incorrect.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like Stanley from the first movie, Tim is a Manchild who feels underappreciated in his job with an attractive blonde woman as his significant other and a brown and white Jack Russel Terrier. Otis, Tim's dog, even ends upwards wearing the Mask just similar Milo did in the first motion picture.
• Toilet Humor: If vomit and pee jokes float your gunkhole, SotM is for you.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Alvey, though Tim and Otis also count.
• Victimized Bystander: Pretty much everyone that happens to exist in Loki'due south way as he tries to observe the mask. During the movie he rips the confront off a man in the museum, traumatizes a nurse by transforming into a copy of her, transforms a neighbor'south head into a giant olfactory organ, sucks upwards a woman in a giant vacuum cleaner and attaches a plunger to a man's face and so tightly that the skin stretches out when he tries to pull it off. None of these characters are ever shown again.
• "Well Done, Son!" Guy: Loki, although he hates his dad.
• Wild Take: Tim, Otis, and Loki, at different points.
• You Take GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When Tim starting time sees Otis wearing the mask, his only reaction is this...right before he faints.

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