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Movies that feel likeThe Mask (1994)

Timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask infused with the spirit of the Norse god Loki. Donning it transforms him into an unrestrained, green-faced, cartoon-like wild man. While the mask grants him the confidence to woo a local singer, it also makes him the target of a ruthless mobster.

If you loved The Mask, the closest films we have are Groundhog Day (1993), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). All three share The Mask's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Mermaid (2016).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chuck Russellwittyplayfuldreamlikegrittyromantic
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Groundhog Day
1993 · dir. Harold Ramis
🍅 93%★ 8romance · fantasy · comedy

A magical hook that frees an ordinary man to become someone better

The difference: The comedy is dry and humane — no rubber-faced mayhem

A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 96%★ 7.7fantasy · animation · comedyDisney+

Cartoon physics crashing into a noir-ish crime world, gag after gag

The difference: Its heart belongs to detective noir — less romance, more mystery

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%★ 7.6fantasy · comedy · romance

Movie-world fantasy spilling into a drab, ordinary life

The difference: Wistful and quietly sad underneath — a Depression-era sigh, not a whoop

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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Bruce Almighty
2003 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 48%★ 6.8fantasy · comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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Being John Malkovich
1999 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 94%★ 7.7comedy · drama · fantasy

Both land dream logic and romance at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than The Mask does

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Easier on the grit than The Mask

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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Practical Magic
1998 · dir. Griffin Dunne
🍅 31%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · comedyMax

Romance with real magic in it, kept light on its feet

The difference: Cozy sisterhood charm, not slapstick — and the spells carry a cost

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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Shallow Hal
2001 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 49%★ 6comedy · fantasy · romance

A magical shift in perception rewires a shallow man's love life

The difference: Its premise aged awkwardly, and the laughs are hit-and-miss

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

One impossible gift hands a nobody the keys to everything

The difference: A talky concept comedy that turns earnest and a bit preachy

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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Click
2006 · dir. Frank Coraci
🍅 34%★ 6.5comedy · drama · fantasyStarz

Both are built on the same subject: dog

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Mask does

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

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Dark Shadows
2012 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 35%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy

Fantasy built on play, twice over

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

Dreamlike romance, and it commits to that

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2010s show

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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