Thursday, March 15, 2012

Film Revew:The Mask


 This is a comedy film inspired by the famous actor Jim Carey


The Mask is a 1994 American superhero comedy film based on a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. This film was directed by Chuck Russell, and produced by Dark Horse Entertainment and New Line Cinema, and originally released to movie theatres on July 29, 1994. The film stars Jim Carrey as Stanley Ipkiss (also The Mask). The film's supporting cast includes Peter Greene as mafia officer Dorian Tyrell, Amy Yasbeck as a newspaper reporter, Peter Riegert and Jim Doughan as two police detectives, Richard Jeni as Stanley's friend, Orestes Matacena as nightclub owner and mafia boss Niko, Ben Stein as a psychologist, and Cameron Diaz in her feature film debut as Stanley's love interest Tina Carlyle. Carrey was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, but lost to Forrest Gump.

Plot

Protagonist Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey), a clerk in an Edge City bank, is a shy, luckless romantic regularly bullied by nearly everyone he is around, whose only friends are his Jack Russell Terrier Milo and his co-worker Charlie Schumaker (Richard Jeni). Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene) operates a nightclub called the Coco Bongo while plotting to overthrow his boss Niko (Orestes Matacena). Tyrell sends his singer girlfriend Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz) into Stanley's bank to record its layout, in preparation to rob the bank.
Stanley is attracted to Tina, and she seems to reciprocate. After being kicked out of the Coco Bongo later that night, at the city's harbor, he finds a mysterious wooden mask, which, when he dons it, changes him into a zoot-suited, green-faced trickster able to act with immense impunity, who exacts comical revenge on some of Stanley's tormentors, such as the mechanics who ripped him off the night before, and scares a street gang that attempts to rob him by turning a balloon into a tommy gun.
The next morning, Stanley encounters detective Lieutenant Kellaway (Peter Riegert) and newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt (Amy Yasbeck) investigating the Mask's activity. Despite these threats, he again becomes the Mask; and needing money to attend Tina's performance, steals the money sought by Tyrell. At Tyrell's club, the Mask dances exuberantly with Tina. At the end of the dance, the Mask gives Tina a kiss, but is then confronted by Tyrell, and flees, leaving behind a scrap of cloth belonging to himself (part of his pajamas).
Kellaway accuses Stanley of the bank-robbery, but he escapes trouble and later consults an expert on masks named Arthur Neumann (Ben Stein), who tells him that the object is a depiction of Loki, the Norse god of darkness and mischief. Despite this, Stanley arranges for Tina to meet the Mask at the local Landfill Park. The meeting is just about to go well when Lt. Kellaway attempts to arrest him. The Mask then toys with the officer before leaving the park and tricking a large group of Edge City police officers into joining him in a mass-performance of the Desi Arnaz song Cuban Pete. After having removed the mask, Stanley is helped by Peggy to escape, but she betrays him to Tyrell for a $50,000 bounty. Tyrell tries on the mask and becomes a demonic monster. Forced to reveal the location of the stolen money, Stanley is kept hostage in one of the mob's cars while Tyrell's henchmen reclaim the money. Stanley is later given to Kellaway to be imprisoned.
When Tina visits Stanley in prison, he urges her to flee the city, and Tina in return thanks Stanley for treating her with respect, also telling him that she knew that he was the Mask all along. She attempts to leave the city, but is pursued by Orlando (Nils Allen Stewart) and cornered by Tyrell, who takes her to his raid of a charity ball hosted by Niko and attended by the city's elite, including the city's mayor Mitchell Tilton (Ivory Ocean). Upon arrival, the masked Tyrell kills Niko, and prepares to destroy both the club and Tina. Milo helps Stanley escape prison, and they, bringing Lt. Kellaway as a cover and hostage, go to stop Tyrell.
After the brief, initial success of securing the assistance of Charlie, Stanley is spotted by Orlando and captured. Tina tricks Tyrell into taking off the mask, which is recovered and donned by Milo, turning the dog into a cartoonish pitbull who defeats Tyrell's men, while Stanley fights Tyrell. Stanley then recovers the mask and uses its abilities to save Tina by swallowing Tyrell's bomb and flushing Tyrell down the drain of the club's ornamental fountain. The police arrive and arrest Tyrell's remaining henchmen; Kellaway tells Stanley that he's under arrest again, but then Mayor Mitchell Tilton comes up to everyone and announces that Tyrell was The Mask the whole time as a way for Kellaway to let Stanley go. Tilton tells Stanley that he is a hero, and thanks him for saving lives. He goes on to say that he needs to have a meeting with Kellaway in his office the next morning.
As the sun rises the following day, Stanley, Tina, Milo, and Charlie take the mask back down to the harbor, where Tina throws it into the water. Charlie attempts to retrieve the mask for himself, only to find Milo swimming away with it.

    

Film review: The Men Who Stare At Goats


This film is a comedy.
The reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is behind the next big story, when crossed with Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a mysterious figure who claims to be part of a secret experimental unit of the United States Army. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing combat tactics. This is a legion of 'Warrior Monk' which has an unparalleled range of powers, such as reading the mind of the enemy through walls or even kill a goat simply by staring at her. The program's founder, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges) has disappeared, and Cassady's mission is to find.

Intrigued by the amazing stories that narrates this new acquaintance, Bob impulsively decides to follow him. When the couple makes Django track, they encounter a clandestine training camp run by a renegade psychic Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey). The reporter is caught in a feud between the Army and militia Django staff Hooper super soldiers. To survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy who never believed could exist.