This was Cameron Diaz's first movie. [Too obvious. It states that it is her first movie in the beginning credits, right in the movie.]
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In the scene where Tina is tied to the palm tree with the bomb armed and Ipkiss is fighting with the goons. Ipkiss fights with Dorian and punches him over and over with Dorain on his back. The punching sounds are VERY obviously off from the action. See more...
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When Stanley, as the Mask, is emptying his pockets for the police, he pulls out a condom, and says "Sorry, wrong pocket" - this was improvised on the spot by Jim Carrey for the scene. See more...
The Mask (1994) - 19 corrections
Directed by Chuck Russell, starring Amy Yasbeck, Cameron Diaz, Jim Carrey, Peter Greene, Peter Riegert (add more)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
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This was Cameron Diaz's first movie. [Too obvious. It states that it is her first movie in the beginning credits, right in the movie.]
At the Coco Bongo, when The Mask is dancing with Tina, his hat is seen in some shots, not in others. [He only wears the hat in the beginning of the dance. Then it it cuts to the crowd dancing for about 2 seconds and back to The Mask. In that time he could easily have thrown it away. And he's some sort of cartoon so he can let things appear and disappear like the mallet and guns.]
Corrected by Dragon
When Stanley is the Mask he does many different things from Looney Toons cartoons in this movie. If you look around Stanley's house you will see alot of Looney Toons memoribila such as, the Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cell drawings over his bed, and the Taz the Tazmanian Devil pillow on his couch. [This isn't trivia. We know that Stanley likes cartoons, so it's not surprising that he has Looney Toons stuff in his apartment.]
When Tina goes to the jail house to see Stanley to tell him about what is going to happen that night, Stanley tells her to leave town so that she will be safe. A few minutes later, when Dorian and his men have Tina cornered in an alleyway, one of them turns up holding a suitcase and says, "Look what I found in her car". But there was no time between Tina leaving the cops and her being cornered in the alleyway for her to have been able to go home and pack clothes. [This is Stanley's way of telling her that he cares about her. Just because we see Stanley tell her to leave town, that doesn't mean that she did not also come up with the same idea on her own. She knows that Dorian is bad news, and seeing as leaving town is a very obvious thing to do, no mistake is made.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
The closed caption does not follow the dialog correctly, when Stanley Ipkiss is told about the excessive repairs to his car. His reply is: "I have to have a car tonight" vs. [cc]: "I need a car tonight" [Closed captioning and subtitles frequently shorten statements or sentenances during shows and films. The statement hasn't made an error in the subtitle as it still conveys the character's intention.]
Corrected by Lummie
Before Carey puts on the mask for the first time, he looks at a picture of Tina, then crumples it up. Then, after he has the mask on, he picks up the picture. But there are now no wrinkle marks in it. [When Stanley picks up the picture again, he actually smoothes it out and there are a few wrinkles visible.]
When Stanley is being searched at Landfill Park, you can see on the ground two of almost everything. [So what, that does not mean it is a mistake.]
After Dorian absorbs the bullets that Nico shot at him, he opens his mouth and we can see that the bullets have their shells again instead of just the projectiles. [This falls under the "cartoon law" category that governs most other things that happen in this movie. Dorian's imagination allowed the bullets to be fired in whatever manner he wishes.]
When Ipkiss escapes from jail, he handcuffs himself to the cop. While he is driving to the club, you can see that they are no longer handcuffed. It's a pretty big mistake considering that the cop says "get these handcuffs off of me" when you can see that they aren't on him. [It is probably because he handcuffed him to part of the car, not to himself.]
When Dorian is playing golf in a golfsimulator, he hits a ball from a tee placed in an other mans mouth. He uses either a 5 or a 4 iron, and he doesn't have a full swing at all, but anyway the golfsimulator says that he hit 205 meters, which is impossible with a 5 or 4 iron and not a full swing. [Actually the golf ball goes 205 yards, on a pretty decent swing, which is believeable.]
When The Mask is doing his Mexican dance, he gets catapulted off of a plank that is leaning on a sign, see-saw style, and he catches a lamppost and spins around it. However when he grabs it, it wobbles, bends and shakes like rubber. [Many things the Mask touches have the odd effects, like making the police force sing and dance.]
A man driving a Cadillac honks at The Mask to get out of the street. The Mask blows a horn that shatters all of the Cadillac's windows, including the windshield. Car windshields are laminated and would not normally shatter like ordinary glass. [Stanley probably conjoured up a horn for the specific purpose of shattering the windows. His imagination let it happen like that.]
In the scene where Peggy Brandt is in the Bank talking to Stanley, Stanley refers to her column as "Ask Peggy" but, a few seconds later in that scene she refers to it as "Dear Peggy". [Stanley got it wrong and Peggy corrected him. Many columns like this are called Dear... or Ask... so it's plausible that Stanley would make a mistake.]
The first time Jim Carrey becomes the Mask, he approaches some thugs. Ipkiss then honks a guy's nose and pulls his underwear over his head. Then the Mask runs away and the thugs follow him. As they reach Ipkiss, the man no longer has the underwear over his head - I doubt he could put it back in 2-3 seconds. [His real underwear couldn't do that either. When the mask does something like that, it wears off after he leaves. It's magic.]
When Dorian first gets the Mask from Stanley, he asks how it works. Stanley says just to put it on. Yet later in the film Dorian says "The sun's going down. Time to get changed for the party". He is never told that the Mask only works at night, yet he waits until nightfall to put it on. [I'm sure Dorian would have gotten all the instructions regarding the mask from Stanley before dumping him at a police station.]
Stanley is told by an expert that the Norse god Loki caused so much mischief that Odin banished him from Valhalla, implying that Loki ended up in the mask. According to Norse mythology Loki got on Odin's bad side because he helped kill Balder, Odin's favorite son. He was then tied to the mountain with acid dripping down on his head. His wife stood with a bowl above his head and gathered the acid, but whenever it was full and she had to empty it acid fell on Loki who struggled, which is how Norse mythology explained earthquakes. There are no other "versions" to explain why Loki left Valhalla and what happened to him. [Yes there is. It's in this movie. It's called creative license.]
In the same scene, one of Dorian's goons gets bitten in the butt by masked Milo and his pants rip. But later on his pants are OK. [Basically anything the masked characters (other than Dorian) do can be subject only to cartoon laws. They aren't permanent. This is particularly evident by how a piece of the banana-yellow suit that got cut turned back into Ipkiss' pajamas.]
When Dorian is the Mask, he gets shot exactly 8 times, but he spits 15 bullets. [He is shot more than 8 times. The other guy's men (sorry, I don't know his name) are also shooting at him. True, the other guy shoots him 8 times, but we don't know how many times his men shoot him.]
In the scene where The Mask is flushing Dorian down the pool, the water is swirling the wrong direction for where they live. [It's a myth that the Coriolis force has a significant effect on the direction that water swirls down a drain. You would have to drain a small ocean to see the effect. See http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dvandom/Edu/newcor.html]
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