Today marks 25 years since the release of The Mask, the second of three career-making comedies released in 1994, along with Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, that turned Jim Carrey into a comedy sensation.
But for the critical class of 1994, The Mask was also something of a damp squib – regarded as not particularly funny or enjoyable, and only rescued by Carrey’s then-fresh rubber-faced schtick.
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