Critical Summary

The action takes place in Edge City, a great American city of fiction, with problems of pollution and crime. Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey) is a bank employee, friendly, shy and timid, who is not successful with women. His boss mistreats. One day he finds mask, god of malice ancestral night, mischief and deceit, who decides to try to see if with its help can overcome shyness and break his bad luck.

The film is an amalgam of genres, short action, comedy, crime, fantasy and romance. This movie explains that between a shy person and a super hero urban nightclub there is only one step, that can be find by his own will or the suggestion of an inert mask. Masked a withdrawn person can become to be tough, brash and combative, strong enough to offer a recital of grimaces, winks and gestures, beyond even the resilience of the viewer.

The story begins by showing the life of Stanley Ipkiss, a bank employee who constantly take the hair and pushed around. That is when, by coincidences of life, Tina appears on the bank where he works for a bank loan. What he does not know is that Tina's intentions go beyond its banking operations, she wants to photograph the bank box safe. Tina is the girl of Dorian Tyrell, a criminal who has the Coco Bongo nightclub he wants to expand his empire and unseat the king of crime in the city of Edge City, Niko. Charlie's friend Ipkiss, he gets tickets to go to Coco Bongo but unfortunately fails to go into the room and stays out. After finishing a day in the worst way possible and made a mess, the end of the day is with a mask of wood floating in the harbor of the city, taking his home, putting it and discovering that he will get a number of specific powers of cartoons. This mask allows Ipkiss make the repressed side of his personality and make it blossom showing as he would like to be.

Jim Carrey is the main protagonist of the film for his role as Stanley Ipkiss, a shy and clumsy to everyone teases but, after putting the mask his personality changes dramatically. Wearing the mask also implies the power to project his own fantasies and manipulate people. Peter Greene is the other side of the coin to play Dorian Tyrell, an unscrupulous type who wants to become the greatest criminal in the city.

The film pays particular attention to relevant characters of the comic world, as Bugs Bunny and others. Includes cartoons and digital animation effects that give the film a unique tone. The work is a dynamic comedy with thrilling moments, which bases the humor in exaggerated changes produced by the use of a mask. It also makes use of "gags" verbal and visual, as the pathetic beauty of the sunset in the big city urban

Cameron Diaz jumps to the big screen, who is making her first film performing the role of Tina Carlyle. And also this movie allows the appearance of Carrey.