Son of the Mask???

[Taylor Karras]

Why is Cartoon Network airing another live-action movie and to add to that, Why are they airing Jamie Kennedy's Worst Movie Ever, It makes The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on G4 seem watchable.

[Draft]

I personally like Son of the Mask

Because they aired The Mask, and they think kids will like it(Which i assume not, sicne it failed at the box office)

[bigddan11]

I personally like Son of the Mask

Because they aired The Mask, and they think kids will like it(Which i assume not, sicne it failed at the box office)
I don't believe Son of the Mask aired at theatres. At least, I never saw any previews for it other than going to DVD. The Mask did okay in theatres and led to The Mask Animated Series, but Son of the Mask was too late for a sequel, especially when no one in the original was involved.

[Dudley]

I don't believe Son of the Mask aired at theatres. At least, I never saw any previews for it other than going to DVD. The Mask did okay in theatres and led to The Mask Animated Series, but Son of the Mask was too late for a sequel, especially when no one in the original was involved.

The movie did air in theaters. And it tanked.

the movie sucks. but the cartoony fights were kind of fun.

[Draft]

It was budgeted for 70 million and made 17 million in theateres

But ya, fight sequences were great..

[marcnbrian]

I just watched it for the first time after stumbling upon it on CN. It wasn't great, but very watchable. I can see kids...particularly boys....liking it a lot....tons of eye candy and some grossout humor moments. :D

[Movie06]

Even on TV, Son of the Mask sucks. Not surprisingly.

[kaleb]

This is the first time I watched the whole thing. But again...we get back to the same topic- Why is CN airing a live action movie that has nothing to do with cartoons? Well, I think that it does have "cartoon appeal" so I'm going to say it's OK!

[Taylor Karras]

Look the point is that it's live action and it's devoid of any quality what-so-ever.

I'd be better off watching someone like Drew Carry on Who's Line Is It Anyways?

[Dudley]

Look the point is that it's live action and it's devoid of any quality what-so-ever.



So? It's as animated as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and a lot of movies CN airs kind of suck.
*coughscoobydoo&landbeforetimecough*

[Jeff Harris]

Not that I want to defend The Network in any way, but last time I saw that movie (and I only saw it twice), Jamie Kennedy's character was an animator who wanted to create a great cartoon. And that connection is probably why The Network is showing Son of the Mask rather than The Mask. He finds the mask of Loki, all hell breaks loose at a party, Loki wants the mask back, kid gets mutated and quasi-animated. Long story short (too late!), Kennedy's character ends up making a Rugrats-like cartoon at the end.

In The Mask, Stanley Ipkiss was an older fan of classic animation (especially the shorts of Tex Avery, as obvious of the Wolf maquette and shorts playing on the television), and for the love of me, Cartoon Network is so hellbent on believing these individuals don't exist.

"Older animation fans? For serious?"

Either that, or they're ignoring the movie because of what Richard Jeni did earlier in the year.

I'd be better off watching someone like Drew Carry on Who's Line Is It Anyways?I wouldn't mind seeing Cartoon Network pick up that Green Screen show he did since it actually involves comedians creating sketches in a virtual animation set, which was genius, but tragically cancelled by The WB because the cast didn't look like teenagers.

[D Dubbs]

I wouldn't mind seeing Cartoon Network pick up that Green Screen show he did since it actually involves comedians creating sketches in a virtual animation set, which was genius, but tragically cancelled by The WB because the cast didn't look like teenagers.

Oh yeah, I remember that. I agree, it would be be a good fit for Cartoon Network.

[Dr.Pepper]

Unfortunatly CN justs airs more and more live action and usually lame movies.

[Sketch]

That would something fitting of a Sunday night slot on CN.

Now this movie. Since I hadn't seen it yet I figured I'd take a peek. It was better than I expected and it had a lot to do with cartoons right down to playing clips from Looney Tunes, The Flintstones and G1 Transformers. That must have been a licensing nightmare. And there was also some animated shorts within it for the movie. So I'd say it's more cartoony than the original Mask movie.

And was that Bob Hoskins as Loki's Father? Every other word I heard live action Mario.

[jerrymouse16]

Not A Good Choice, But At Least It's Not The First One.

[Caswin]

Not A Good Choice, But At Least It's Not The First One.Which would have less animation... but actually be funny and overall good.

Hm. Tough one. (Why do you type like that?)

Arguably the most frustrating part of this is how so many of these movies - Batman, The Mask, Spider-Man, Mighty Ducks(?!) - actually have cartoons inspired by them...

[J'onn J'onzz]

Which would have less animation... but actually be funny and overall good.

Hm. Tough one. (Why do you type like that?)

Arguably the most frustrating part of this is how so many of these movies - Batman, The Mask, Spider-Man, Mighty Ducks(?!) - actually have cartoons inspired by them...
I think he was typing in all caps, and that's why every word ended up capitalized.

But Son of the Mask is one of the most hated movies of all time. I'm surprised they picked it up.

[tb4000]

Only reason to watch this movie is to watch the baby turn into a CGI Woody Woodpecker due to watching so much of it. Excellent work by ILM there.

[sleepyhead]

I don't believe Son of the Mask aired at theatres. At least, I never saw any previews for it other than going to DVD. The Mask did okay in theatres and led to The Mask Animated Series, but Son of the Mask was too late for a sequel, especially when no one in the original was involved.


The movie did air in theaters. And it tanked.

the movie sucks. but the cartoony fights were kind of fun.

yes it does, same as dudley, it really sucks, but i guess i enjoyed it..;)

[Silverstar]

it really sucks, but i guess i enjoyed it..;)

I challenge the above sentence to make less sense.

Anywho, Son of the Mask wasn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination (IMO), but at least its' plot loosely revolves around cartoons and features animation. It's a better fit for CN than Goosebumps. Besides, CN already aired the first Mask, so airing the sequel isn't going to do any more harm.

[Discloner]

Besides, CN already aired the first Mask, so airing the sequel isn't going to do any more harm.This is been suggested a few times in this thread...but I don't recall The Mask ever airing on Cartoon Network.

[Draft]

This is been suggested a few times in this thread...but I don't recall The Mask ever airing on Cartoon Network.
Well ,it definatly aired on TNT...

[Discloner]

Well ,it definatly aired on TNT...
...but...TNT is not CN...

...that doesn't even make sense in the context of this thread. O_o

[J'onn J'onzz]

...but...TNT is not CN...

...that doesn't even make sense in the context of this thread. O_o

I think what he means is that CN seems to be TNT/TBS jr. these days, as they've aired a ton of other movies from those channels lately (MIB, School of Rock, etc.)

...But, yeah, I don't remember seeing the Mask on CN either.

[limel]

This is been suggested a few times in this thread...but I don't recall The Mask ever airing on Cartoon Network.

It did. I had it recorded up until about a week ago, but unfortunately I deleted it. Sorry, no screencap.

[Discloner]

It did. I had it recorded up until about a week ago, but unfortunately I deleted it. Sorry, no screencap.
Right, but even if it did air - which I'm still doubting; there'd be a talkback here for it, and I can find no such thing...nor any mention of it airing (including it's air date and time) outside vauge statements in this thread that claim it did.

[veemonjosh]

Right, but even if it did air - which I'm still doubting; there'd be a talkback here for it

Unless it aired before Toon Zone existed in it's current form.

[Silverstar]

Well, I don't know how to convince you of it, but The Mask did air on CN once. I sat through part of it. I stopped watching after the "Cuban Pete" number, but I had already seen the film in its' entirety on video beforehand.

[limel]

Right, but even if it did air - which I'm still doubting; there'd be a talkback here for it, and I can find no such thing...nor any mention of it airing (including it's air date and time) outside vauge statements in this thread that claim it did.

Toonzone didn't have talkbacks for EVERY live-action re-run of a movie. And stop doubting it; we have two people now that say they saw it on CN. And I'm not sure if I joined when it premiered, so I don't remember a talkback.

[Jave]

I challenge the above sentence to make less sense.I think it's the "It sucks so much, it's actually fun to watch" syndrome.

I believe it originated with Plan 9 From Outer Space

[Taylor Karras]

How could it be fun to watch. It felt like I was watching a 2 hour episode of The Jamie Kennedy Experiment.

I watched it and I was severly dissapointed, It's jokes don't seem funny and Jamie Kennedy seriously needs to learn how to act.

Jim Carry should of been in this one instead of the all-mighty JKX.

[limel]

I think it's the "It sucks so much, it's actually fun to watch" syndrome.

Yep, the same thing with Hannah Montana :D

[Silverstar]

Or any movie shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The movie Alien from L.A. by itself was just a bad movie, but when it got MSTied it was so bad it was good. :p

[hobbyfan]

Do I have to explain it again? The biggest reason why CN is showing live-action movies having little or nothing to do with anything on their roster is because they're helping their sister networks, TBS & TNT, fulfill contracts. It's wrong, but Time Warner doesn't care what we viewers think. It's a business decision.

Richard Jeni's suicide earlier this year would have 0 to do with CN deciding not to run "The Mask", even though TBS ran it about a dozen times already. The programming nerds are just plain ignorant.

[Taylor Karras]

Yes, We get that but why air that god-awful never should of been made Mask Sequal.

I mean if your airling live-action, At least have the decency to air The Mask.