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  • Bile Fascination: Is watched by some people for the sake of seeing not just how bad it is, but also to see how disrespectful it is to the first film and the franchise in general.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: If you've seen just how scathing the reviews are for this movie, it should be easy to see why fans of both the original movie and the comics do NOT want to acknowledge this movie as anything, other than an insult to the franchise.
  • Ham and Cheese: Even if Loki is a Large Ham by design (he did create the mask) and the setting is unhinged and overblown, Alan Cumming's performance still manages to qualify for the trope.
  • Heartwarming Moments:
    • The scene of Tim bonding with Alvey, set to a cover of "What a Wonderful World".
    • Loki patching things up with his father Odin and the two of them going home together.
    • Related to the above, Tim's speech towards Odin:
      Tim: Hey! Look here, Grisly Adams, I don't know how things works in the god world, but you're his father, he's your son, and even if you banish him, he's still gonna be your son. Nothing, in this universe is more important than your relationship with your family. I would think it's even more important for you guys. You're like a thousand, he's like eight-hundred, you might as well get it right now and enjoy the rest of eternity.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Loki. Arguably the only reason people watch this movie at all. There's also some people who view Otis in their opinion as the best character in the movie due to his Wile E. Coyote-like antics.
  • Nausea Fuel: When Alvey pees on Tim. And his peeing turns into a fountain.
  • Older Than They Think:
    • Many viewers complaining about Otis still wearing the Mask even in daylight probably never saw the animated television series based on the 1994 film, which changed it so that Stanley Ipkiss could also still have the mask on in the morning.
    • While references to the original comics are nearly nonexistent, Tim's song at his work's Halloween Party, "Too Good to be True," actually was performed by one of Big Head's wearers back in The Mask Strikes Back.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Before being involved as art director and co-creator of Transformers: Animated (along with many other things) and fresh from his involvement from Teen Titans (2003), Derrick Wyatt worked as one of the animators for the film.
  • Sequelitis: Of all of the sequels to Jim Carrey vehicles out there, this one is near-universally considered the worst. Though the original did great with critics, gaining an 80% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, the sequel only managed to get a 6% score. It has nothing to do with original beyond just having the mask in it, Jamie Kennedy's Carrey-equivalent performance was universally panned, the cinematography and visuals are nightmare-inducing, and the slapstick was a far cry from the wit the original film had.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The most common complaint about the visual effects is how suddenly shifting from a real baby to a cartoonish yet realistic CG toddler gets downright terrifying. There's also Tim's masked look, whose exaggerated features and obvious plastic hair are fairly creepy.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The audience is clearly supposed to root for and sympathize with Alvey. Unfortunately, he's a complete Jerkass who constantly torments his father, Tim, and makes life miserable for him throughout the whole movie for no real reason, other than just because, making him a borderline Villain Protagonist with no sympathetic qualities.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: For a PG movie that's ostensibly meant to be a more kid-friendly sequel to its PG-13 predecessor, there is a surprising amount of raunchy content here, with sexual innuendos, disturbing imagery, and even a deleted sperm fertilization scene that's kept in non-Region 1 DVD copies.

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