Imagine a cyclone, a Tex Avery cartoon come to life, a zoot-suited fashionista and the wiggy energy of a vat of jumping beans and that still doesnt capture Jim Carreys comic genius as Stanley Ipkiss, a repressed clerk who goes from zero to hero when he dons The Mask.
The mysterious mask Stanley finds allows him to do what he normally cant like woo Tina (debuting Cameron Diaz) and beat baddies.
Beneath all the loopy fun is the films heart: Does Stanley really need the mask to be the person he longs to be? Flat-out smokin!