Original subtitles

[theme music]

[door slams]

♪ I gotcha with my winnin' smile ♪

♪ I'm a livin' lesson in flair and style ♪

♪ You just can't help but stare at my savoir-faire ♪

♪ I'm Nouveau DecoRoman-Greco ♪

♪ Rococo Barroco be-bop and hip hop ♪

♪ Uh flip flop somebody stop me ♪

♪ Pretty Viridian faces like mine ♪

♪ Don't come a dime a dozen ♪

♪ I stand out in a crowd ♪

♪ They went they made me yeah they broke the mold ♪

♪ Wholesome and kind staid and refined ♪

♪ Totally out of my mind ♪

♪ Arch-villains and ne'er do wells ♪

♪ Had better learn to decorate prison cells ♪

♪ Green goes with anything if they ask see ♪

♪ Well there's one last thing I gotta sing about ♪

♪ Open up wide and really shout ♪

♪ Oh look out ♪

♪ This is the Mask ♪♪

S-S-Smokin'!

Huh. What in tarnation..

[growls]

[grunts]

[screaming]

[shuddering]

Cold. So cold.

[Stanley] '"A mysterious wave of shadow thefts continues."'

"Experts at Edge City's criminal investigations bureau"

"are stumped but many believe it to be the work of..

The Sinister Shadow Snatchers of Saturn!"

[telephone ringing]

Edge City Savings

where we treat your money like it's ours.

Yeah, Peggy!

Shadow Snatchers from Saturn? Oh, please.

Peggy, you really gotta stop borrowing your ideas

from bad movies.

Stanley, this one's true.

My phone's been ringing off the hook.

It's happening everywhere.

Yeah, well, you just call me Mr. Skeptical, okay.

I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.

Charlie, what happened?

- Your shadow, it's-it's... - Gone. Yeah, yeah, I know.

Yeah, but-but how?

What, haven't you read the papers?

I got cocooned by an amorphous black blob.

It's not like I really need a shadow anyway.

Hair I need.

It's been thinning at warp speed.

You were cocooned by an amorphous black blob

and you're worried about male pattern baldness?

Keep it down, will ya?

I don't want any babes to hear.

Hey, hey, hey.

Maybe the shadowless look will be in.

You know, the next big fashion craze.

Yeah, that would just about make up for the hair.

[Peggy] Charlie's going bald?

[laughs]

You're missing the point. He has no shadow.

Okay, come on, Peggy. Spill the beans, will ya?

What's the shadow stealers thing?

I-I want details.

Oh, how come, Mr. Skeptical?

Sound like this might be a case for The Mask, hm?

[Stanley] Against Sinister Shadow Snatchers from Saturn?

I may be The Mask sometimes

but I'm not Captain Galaxy.

[Milo growling]

We'll talk Shadow Snatchers later.

It's time to feed the beast.

[giggles]

We're almost home, Milo.

We'll, uh, we'll get you some din-din, boy.

[eerie music]

[growling]

[gasps]

[Stanley] 'Oh. Nothing's there, Milo.'

[grunting]

Get out!

[Milo whimpering]

[shudders] Cold.

No. No. No!

[groans]

[whimpers]

Saturn, my foot!

A shadow stealing shadows!

'But not for long.'

[crackling]

Shadow's coming home to daddy!

[upbeat music]

As my threads are glaringly not snazzy without it.

[swooshes]

S-S-Smokin'!

Hey! What do you know?

[crashing]

But first..

Eat up, Johnny.

[The Mask] 'Something is haunting the streets of Edge City'

'Something wicked, something weird.'

Good evening, on tonight's episode

of "Really weird, bizarre, way-out, funky, unbelievable

and unsolvable mysterious happenings"

we tackle the important questions

about the shadow-stealing phenomenon.

One, who is behind it? Two, what do they want?

And three, will they give mine back?

[gasps]

Quick! Get a shot of this!

'There it is.'

Wait till I get my hands on you.

Yah!

I got you now!

Take that and that!

And that, that, and that!

Steal my shadow, will you?

Well!

[girl] 'Hey, Mr. Green-head warrior' man.

Why are you attackin' the wall, huh, why?

Is it a bad wall? Huh, mister?

'Are you punishin' it 'cause it's a bad wall?'

Are you teachin' it a lesson? Are you, huh?

Uh... yeah.

You tell anyone about this and I'll shave your head.

I swear I will.

A-ha!

'That citizen is in danger!'

I hope. I don't wanna embarrass myself again.

Beware, miss!

H-e-I-p!

The Mask!

Hmm. Not the expected response but, yes!

Run like the wind and don't look back!

Aah! What's going on? I'm blind!

[The Mask] Somebody's gonna get their shadow-butt kicked

that's what I think.

Now what's happening?

Come on, let me out of here!

[grunting]

'Hello!'

'You better not be taking me anywhere!'

[leaves rustling]

Just as I thought.

You did take me somewhere and creepy, too.

[wind howling]

Bravo! Bravo!

Now pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Come on. Just do it.

[whooping]

Mask, old buddy! How ya been?

What, don't you recognize me? It's me, Skillit.

Oh, I've been lookin' all over the place for you.

Get off! You're wrinkling my suit.

Now, I would appreciate you returning my shadow

s'il vous plait, I'enfant terrible.

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

I-I, I never meant to take your shadow.

[humming]

Ah, here it is.

No hard feelings, right? Huh?

Hey, we're gonna have some fun now.

Oh, Skillit and The Mask together again

living life to the fullest.

Well, we're only on this earth

for a short while, you know.

[chuckles] Especially me.

[Skillit] Hey, look, I gotta get back into Shadowland

'before the evening's up.'

So come on, time's a-wastin'.

This city festers with wholesome, good people.

Let's go slaughter a bunch of innocents.

It'll be just like old times. What do you say, huh?

I say, I don't wanna hang around

no creepy face, floatin' in midair, shadow snatching kid.

Now that I got my shadow back.

I'm goin' to the Cocobongo and they got a rule.

You gotta be this tall to ride, shrimpy.

♪ Oh ohh ♪

♪ Grownups get to go to clubs doo dah doo dah ♪

♪ Creepy kids are not allowed ♪ oh de doo dah day ♪♪

No, not yet.

Evidently, this Mask is different from the others.

Let's find out who's under that green skin

and then, if we don't like him..

Yes. We'll see if he bleeds.

[slurps]

[whining]

Hey, there, hotshot. You cut a mean rug.

Where'd you learn those moves? From me, of course.

[laughs]

What a groove machine you are.

But, alas, all things groovy must come to an end.

[screaming]

[crackling]

I don't believe it.

I mean you get all the way to Mr. Shadow snatcher

and forget to bring everyone else's back?

And you overfed Milo.

[Skillit laughing]

Oh, you're too cute.

Forgot the shadows.

[barking]

[zaps]

Milo!

[laughing]

I may not look like much but I assure you

you could be sweeping scorched fur and doggy bones right now.

Oh, yeah?

Okay, you look, Mr. Little person.

I don't know what you're doing here

but I think you should give back

all those shadows you stole right now, please?

Huh.

You're not like the others at all, are you?

What do you mean "others"?

What others are you talkin' about?

The others who've worn that mask in your hand.

[chuckles] You see, this may come as a shock

but I'm over 4,000 years old

and I've known everyone who's ever possessed the mask.

Or should I say the mask has possessed.

Yes, the list is 4,000 years long.

Attila, Blackbeard, Genghis.

The Hun? The pirate? The Khan?

[chuckles] Oh, yeah.

What a bunch of fun guys.

Those aren't fun guys.

Those are monsters who caused suffering and-and terror.

Yeah, you say tomato, I say tomahto.

He reminds me of that Honest Abe character

to wear the mask.

I hate it when goody two-shoes get the mask.

[gasps]

Let's go somewhere we can talk.

[Stanley] 'Whoa!'

What? Stanley?

They're flying him to Saturn.

Hello, headline news.

[Milo groans]

[panting]

[Skillit] You see, Stanley, bein' over 4,000 years old

I get bored pretty easy.

Kids are the only fun people to hang out with.

Problem is they're locked up in school all day.

And adults? Adults, oh, adults.

It's always, "Hey, let me tell you what happened yesterday."

"My job, my future, blah, blah, blah."

Adults are just plain boring.

Except for The Mask.

He's never boring.

He has a-a twisted sense of humor

and realizes the entertainment value

of a mindless rampage.

So, being that The Mask is such a fun guy

to have around a swell pal and all.

I'd like him to come back to the Shadowland with me.

The Shadowland?

Oh, yeah. The old hometown.

Man, me and The Mask in Shadowland.

Now, that would be some serious fun.

Nothin' more fun than agonizing a Shadowlander.

[chuckles]

Hey, listen, Mr. Skillit.

Look, look, you got The Mask all wrong.

It's not the mask itself that's evil..

'Or as you put it, a fun guy'

'...it's whoever wears it.'

Okay, look, you see.

Skillit, if a good guy wears the mask

then The Mask will be a good guy.

And I'm a good guy.

Well?

Tell it to the sidewalk.

Aah!

[Skillit] 'Oh, such a waste.'

However, there may be no convincing

that goody two-shoes

but I know I can get The Mask

to come to the Shadowland with me.

[screaming]

Okay, okay. Just keep the mask.

I get out of the Shadowland every other cosmic event or so.

So you do your thing with it, whatever

and when you're, you know, done with it

I'll talk to the next guy. How does that sound?

Does that sound fair?

Oh, yes. Oh, that sounds very fair.

- Oh, yes, thank you. - Oh, good.

After all, I'm eternal and you're not.

No, wait! Wait, Skillit!

Now, just one thing.

Uh, how do you stay eternal?

Why, I steal shadows, silly boy.

- Shadows? - Sure.

Nothing keeps you baby-faced like the shadow of a mortal.

[chuckles]

But that must mean you-you steal their youth?

Watch me.

[whistles]

Oh, shadow!

Sic 'em.

Peggy! Peggy, look out!

Hey!

[grunting]

Cold. So cold.

See you around, Stan.

Hakuna matata.

Peggy. Charlie.

Easy. Okay.

[shudders] Stanley, what's going on?

Uh, n-nothing, Peggy.

Look-look, you wait here. I gotta check on Charlie.

I've, uh, you know I got this hunch he might not be okay.

[banging on door] Charlie!

Charlie!

[groans]

Charlie!

Yeah, I'm-I'm coming.

I'm coming. Hold your horses.

Oh, I didn't hear you break my door.

Charlie, Charlie, you're old.

Told you my hair was thinning.

[groans]

Oh, turns out losing your shadow

is a big deal after all.

Too bad.

Yeah, shadowless look

it would have been a great craze.

Except for the rapid-aging part.

Stanley something's happening to me.

Oh, if The Mask doesn't do something and quick

every shadowless citizen of Edge City

is gonna wither away.

[footsteps approaching]

[Milo groaning]

No! Milo! Oh, not you too, buddy.

[slurping]

It's gonna be okay, boy.

You're gonna be alright, okay.

I'll take care of it.

[dramatic music]

There are certain things in this world

which are taboo, forbidden, verboten

and messin' with innocent dogs and baby seals

is top of the list!

Time is running out.

I've stolen the shadows of everyone

that goody two-shoes knows.

So, he should be showin' up here any moment

wearing the mask.

You're up way past your bedtime, junior.

Oh, Mask!

I know you came here to take back those shadows

but let's go to the Shadowland instead.

Come on, we'll boil Shadowland denizens in oil

flay their skin from their bodies

split their spines like boiled lobsters.

What kind of sicko do you think I am?

Say, could we give 'em atomic wedgies?

Sure, sure, sure.

Atomic wedgies, nuclear pile drivers, radioactive noogies

anything you want.

Okay, sounds good, buddy.

But first, hand over the shadows.

No! You're not taking my youth.

I'll give you a lick of my sucker

and my one-of-a-kind Rosey O'Grier rookie card

if you hand over the shadows.

No! My shadows! My youth!

Selfish brat!

[zapping]

Bad for your teeth, anyway.

Let me out of here!

I'm gonna tell mom! Mom!

Aah! Ooh! Uff!

Hyah!

[sizzling]

Six, seven, eight, nine!

Nine and a half nine and three quarters

nine and five-sixth nine and seven-eighth.

Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner

weighing 273 pounds, 8 ounces.

The Masked Mask!

[crowd cheering]

I will destroy you!

[thudding]

[grunting]

What do you think of that, huh, Mr. Smarty pants?

You give? You give? Say uncle! Say uncle!

[bell chimes] What?

It can't be the end of a round already.

The 13th hour. My time here's over.

What the heck is that?

The Shadowland!

I must enter before the 13th chime.

That was number two.

You wanted me to go in there?

You're weirder than I thought.

[whimpering]

[bell chimes]

Don't you see?

If you come to the Shadowland with me

we can screw around like this all the time.

You will never have to be that goody two-shoes again.

You could be The Mask forever.

Because Stanley Ipkiss would completely cease to exist.

Well, why didn't you say I could get rid of that

drippy-dork, neo-knob, gip-noid Ipkiss in the first place?

You'll bet I'll go!

Yes! All the fun we'll have!

The mayhem, the torture.

If you hand over the shadows.

[bell chimes]

No. Oh, fine. You win.

I'll just get more the next time I come out.

[crackling]

[bell continues chiming]

[instrumental music]

[panting]

Voila! The shadows are returned.

And now, after you.

[growling]

[Skillit] No! No fair! No fair! You cheated!

Well, if that isn't the pot calling the Skillit black.

[bell chimes]

Look at this, huh?

What about that, huh?

That's it. Deal's off, Skillit.

You cheated and I knew you would.

[The Mask] 'Ya-hah!'

Chime number 12!

I must return!

♪ Oh Milo ♪♪

No, no, no!

I'll lose my shadow, my powers!

[wind whooshing]

[grunts]

Hey, it's 13 o'clock.

Do you know where your children are?

You don't understand!

My powers are rooted in my shadow.

Without my shadow, I'm just n-n-normal!

And like any normal person, I'll grow old.

In good time, cubby.

But first, we've got to get somebody to school.

[sobbing] Oh, no!

Anything but that!

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

But there's so much to look forward to.

Your first report card, your first bake sale

your first wedgie!

Oh, yeah, all the bullies and class clowns

are gonna love the new blue-faced, pointy-eared kid

'with the crazy shadowless look.'

[laughs] Oh, just wait till you get a radioactive noogie.

Woo-hoo! Nothing like it, baby.

Must snatch shadow. Must, must regain youth.

Must, must..

[Skillit screams]

[theme music]