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Summary: The funniest thing about this movie is the bad reviews
Review: I have repeatedly laughed out loud and now have a side ache from just reading the bad reviews posted here. Talk about great writing! Dana should have spent more time reading reviews here and learned real comedy from the pros! You all deserve a pat on the back. Your responses have more than made up for the money I wasted on this movie. I Thank you.
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Summary: Great Dana and Great Fun
Review: My children (8 and 10) both enjoyed this film - and so did I. The great references to classic films has spawned a kind of mini film festival in our house. They now know about Jaws and other great films made before they were born.Dana Carvey has had trouble finding a good vehicle that lets him express his incredible comedic talent; maybe there will be better ones, but my kids and I enjoyed this one.
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Summary: Taking things too literally
Review: Some of you ADULT reviewers sound like you're trying to rate a KIDS movie like it's aimed at adults. Don't tell me you forgot what it was like being a kid. Carvey was doing something for the kids for a change, and did them quite a favor. If I would have seen this at, say, age 8, I would've laughed myself into a coma. I'm grown up and I still got a bang out of it, but that's me. Although I am proud of the reviewers that did take thier minds off themselves and consider the children. For the rest, try entering things with a clear mind, you may find yourselves not so quick to pass judgements.
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Summary: WORST MOVIE EVER!
Review: There are already a lot of good reviews on here bashing this movie but I had to throw my 2 cents in since it still has 3 stars. I loved Carvey on Saturday night live so I made myself watch this movie knowing full well it would be terrible. With that said I don't know where to begin. Everyone of the many characters he plays in this movie are simply annoying, especially his main character, I'm pretty sure genetically cross breeding Irkle, Screech and Ricki Lake would still not come close to how bad Pistachio got on my nerves. I was waiting in mind numbing agony for something to happen, but by the time the movie "got started" it was already about 40 minutes into it. I found myself asking how the hell did this movie get a budget passed $20,000 let alone $48,000,000 and where was it spent? The only thing I could think of was that all the money was spent on effects and then they threw the inside out monkey from "The Fly" into a closet for 2 hours with the mission of developing the movie's script. The one cheap gag that did make me crack up everytime though was the fart gag delivered by Data. Anyway, if Carvey ever works again I'll be surprised!
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is a great Movie, Me and My family rented this Movie about 3 Months ago, and as soon as the Movie was over I new I was going to buy it. This Movie is so Funny even though some peaple
might not catch all the jokes right away I think its worth watching anyway. Go with Pistachio as he trys to rescue is Mom and Dad from the evil Master mind Devlin Bowman. after hereing all that I think you should at least give it a try. I give this Movie two thumbs up
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Summary: The worst movie in the history of the universe
Review: My goodness gracious me. This movie is so mind-numbingly, incongruously bad and contained so many jokes that lumbered off the screen and tanked pitifully that it has become, for me, the worst film I've ever seen. "Hey! I like Dana Carvey! It can't be THAT bad!" I hear you ask. So what's wrong with it? First of all, the opening credits drone on for about five minutes, possibly because there wasn't enough movie to fill 80 minutes. If this is a children's movie, certainly the golden rule would be to grab their attention from the get-go. I can't imagine young kids being riveted to the screen watching credits drone on and on. Even myself, an adult, had already lost interest by the time the movie started. Second, the impersonations and characters Carvey does, which are the crux of the comedy of the movie, are pointless. He's written the film around things he can play, rather than writing and story and finding ways of putting characters in. So we're left to watch things like his Al Pacino 'Scarface' impersonation (is this a children's movie??) or his 'Turtle Man'. The latter is an inexorable five minute turkey where Carvey dresses up as a Turtle and walks around saying "turtle". Sound hilarious enough for you? As a finish to the Turtle scene, Carvey bites the nose off a rude party guest (the nose simply disappears from the man's face), spits it back on (it reattaches itself somehow) and then proceeds to have some sort of paroxysm or embolism on the floor (???[]?). His impersonations simply consist of inhabiting a character and then spewing whatever dialogue you would expect. For example, what do you think Al Pacino says? "Say hello to my little friend!" What do you think a dapper British gent says? "What what, old chum... (insert other stereotypical British colloquialisms)." And then there's a ludicrous poolside George Bush Jnr impersonation. Why is it in the movie? Most probably because Dana Carvey is good at impersonating him, and not for any other reason. The dialogue is terrible. The acting is abysmal. The jokes are tired and predictable. For example, the bad guy, played by Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek) flatulates whenever he breaks into a maniacal laugh. That may be funny once. But twice? No. Three times? FOUR times? FIVE? then SIX, SEVEN AND EIGHT TIMES????? It could have at least been left out on one occasion just to stump the audience. I can't see how children would enjoy this movie. Perhaps they would. Maybe really, really little kids. There's so many other movies out there they would prefer, like Hook, The Iron Giant, Toy Story... just about every children's movie ever made. I like those movies as well. But this one, 'The Master of Disguise', is such a terrible abomination, such a ghastly aberration, that every copy should be recalled, doused in petrol, and set alight. Then burned again, just to be safe.
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Summary: The worst I've seen--ever!
Review: This was absolutely atrocious. DC uses an annoying voice and nothing was even mildly funny except possibly a reference to an online auction service. ... One positive thing is that it isn't dirty, profane or overly violent, just mind-numbingly bad. ...
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Summary: Very Good
Review: A Lot of People Blow on this Movie but It is a very good childrens movie, or good for those who are children at heart. its not for people who can't understand slapstick or just very simple jokes. Over all its a very very cute movie, very fun!
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Summary: Ugh, He Cheated Me
Review: Complete waste of time. NOT FUNNY AT ALL! I had to force myself to watch the entire movie and hated it the whole time.
I can't expressed how shocked I was at the quality of this. You expect SOME laughter, right? I spent the first half of the movie in utter dismay at how bad it was and the second half squirming in my seat for the ending. The level of humor may be on a child's level, but there are some things in the movie that are not intended for children.
Life is short, don't waste your time!
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Summary: Kids may enjoy it, adults should steer clear.
Review: THE MASTER OF DISGUISE is produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions and co-executive produced by Sandler, which should give potential viewers a warning about what they're in for.
Dana Carvey (who co-scripted) plays Pistachio Disguisey, a dimbulb waiter whose only real talent is for doing impersonations, which he uses to unwittingly insult his customers. Coincidentally, this moronic behaviour is a genetic "gift" that runs in his family.
Masters of Disguise have been in the Disguisey family bloodline for years, but Pistachio has been kept ignorant about it for a quarter century (no explaination is given)- but one day his Grandpa breaks the news that he is a "disguiser" and he becomes an apprentice Master Of Disguise, Level 1 (out of 1000 levels). Wow.
As happens in movies like this, Pistachio's parents are kidnapped by the predictably villainous megalomaniac Devlin Bowman (ST:TNG's Brent Spiner), who always breaks wind after giving his predictably villainous laugh. But kidnapping isn't challenging enough; so Bowman is also out to steal the "World's most secret treasures" including the U.S Constitution, which aren't so secret because anyone with half a brain (!MEEEE!) will have heard of them.
MASTER OF DISGUISE is an obvious attempt to give Carvey his own AUSTIN POWERS type franchise. Could he be jealous of Mike Myer's success? Just check out Carvey's SHREK impersonation. As subtle as a sledgehammer. He's just not funny. Ditto his Dubya- his George Senior in OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS was pretty funny, but that was then; this is now.
MASTER OF DISGUISE ought to appeal to kids under 10 (or people with an IQ 10 or under), who may appreciate the dopiness- several gags are stolen directly from BILL AND TED and ACE VENTURA. There are also unfunny digs at THE EXORCIST and JAWS.
There are better ways to kill 80 minutes: like picking lint out of your navel, tweezing your nose hairs or subjecting youself to a marathon screening of MASH re-runs. However, if you consider John Leguizamo's THE PEST to be the pinnacle of comedic brilliance then this movie is for you. If you absolutely MUST watch MOD, then look out for cameos from Bo Derek and Jesse Ventura.
Extras include commentary by the Director and Carvey, alternate & deleted scenes (They'd have been better off deleting the entire movie) introduced by Carvey in Disguisey's stupid Turtle Guy role, 3 featurettes: one an ego piece where one of the co-players describes MOD as "WIZARD OF OZ meets ALICE IN WONDERLAND", plus the cast and crew kissing up to Carvey and saying how brilliant he is, and finally a music video by a band you've probably never heard of, and won't care about anyway. Not even Jennifer Esposito's beauty can partially redeem this. View at your own risk.
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