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Master of Disguise, The
EMAILPRINTSony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 24 critic reviews
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Based on 68 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Mystery
Written by:
Dana Carvey
Harris Goldberg
Directed by: Perry Andelin Blake
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 2, 2002
DVD: January 28, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for mild language and some crude humor
Starring Dana Carvey, Mark Devine, Jennifer Esposito, James Brolin, Brent Spiner, Jesse Ventura, and Harold Gould
Dana Carvey is Pistachio Disguisey, the last in a long line of "masters of disguise" in a family that goes back through 2,000 years of European history.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Feels like nothing less than Dana Carvey's desperate bid for his own "Austin Powers"-like franchise, but with a harmless humor far less crude. Carvey favors whoopee cushion punch lines to toilet gags and references to big butts over sexual double-entendres.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Lou Carlozo
A disjointed film that, but for brief flashes of comedic verve, should skip theatrical release and go straight to video.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Charles Savage
For a movie that's all about camouflage, this sketch comedy epilogue turns out to be its most creative disguise: a thin coating of humor slapped on an otherwise ponderous film.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The individual scenes are just random, uninspired riffs by Carvey or awkwardly flat cameos by the likes of Jesse Ventura and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Hands-down, the best James Brolin-in-an-Italian-accent movie ever.
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Pants and wheezes and hurls itself exhausted across the finish line after barely 65 minutes of movie, and then follows it with 15 minutes of end credits in an attempt to clock in as a feature film.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Lacking even a hint of humor or a watchable story, Disguise has distinguished itself as the summer's worst movie.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Quite an artful dissembler. Despite all evidence to the contrary, this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie, the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on TV and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Reilly Capps
Like criticizing the light fixtures on the Titanic. This ship was going down anyway.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf
Mostly this happy train wreck feels like a longer, better movie that was chopped up and reassembled by retarded monkeys; what should have been a rush instead feels rushed.
Variety Dennis Harvey
Vehicle for Dana Carvey as a chameleonic crime-fighting imbecile is noisy, colorful and fart-gag-filled enough to amuse undiscriminating auds under the age of 10.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Imagine combining bad imitations of the "Ace Ventura" and "Austin Powers" movies and you'll have a rough idea of this feeble Dana Carvey farce.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
A film so family-safe it feels sheathed in plastic Bubble Wrap. Unfortunately, it's not even as much fun as popping the bubbles. It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. It still feels like a prison stretch.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
An awful, stillborn comedy assembled out of rusty spare parts from secret agent movies and run-of-the-mill ''Saturday Night Live'' skits.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Even the rare individual who died laughing while watching the trailer will discover that only half of that phrase - the "dying" part - applies to the experience of enduring the film.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Dan Fienberg
The Master of Disguise represents Adam Sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
I understand how hard it is for parents to find movies to take their kids to, but the thought of them or their children getting stuck at this stinker galls me. Summer vacation feels short enough as it is.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
But even Carvey's protean talent can't dent this ponderously unfunny and uninspired comedy. It's hard to imagine anyone older than 10 being diverted by its broad buffoonery, and kids deserve better than this in the first place.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
A gimmick in search of a movie: how to get Carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible, plot mechanics be damned.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
No one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through The Master of Disguise, an unbearably tedious and unfunny comedy.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 68 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
John C. gave it a10:
This movie was freakin awesome you all are a bunch of losers because you think its stupid.
Joe Mama gave it a0:
The Master of Disguise sucks balls! I know because I'm Joe Mama and I know movies!
Gerrick C gave it a0:
This movie is three things: not funny, not entertaining, and not worth your time. I started watching this movie but I turned it off soon after because it was idiotic. I tried again the next day but I had to turn it off again because it became too idiotic. Don't watch this movie.
Ray C gave it a0:
Now I understand why Dana Carvey's career ended. It's more disappointing than funny, because in the end all the funny bits of this movie, which there were few, were nothing but a bunch of fart jokes that a five year old could write. I feel ashamed that I picked out this movie to watch with my family. Don't even get this movie for free, because this movie will make you feel worse off than if you didn't see this movie.
Sayer gave it a0:
If this movie had been around 40 years ago, it definitely would have been used by the Viet Cong as a method of torture. All that money wasted in creating this piece of crap. That's agonizing.
Nick N. gave it a10:
Excellent film. Instant classic. Slam dunk. One ticket for master of disguise please!
Dan B. gave it a4:
Although this movie was pointless and boring, I'm surprised to see it in the "worst-movies-of-all-time-genre" It provided mild entertainment and was reasonably well done. There are certainly worse movies out there, like Waterworld and Biodome.
