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NUMBERS
Box Office: $40,322,713
VHS Rentals: $8,060,000
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CONSENSUS
The Master of Disguise plays to Carvey's strength at mimicry. Unfortunately, the movie is more painful to watch than is funny.
CAST & CREW
Dana Carvey, Brent Spiner, Jennifer Esposito
Directed by Perry Andelin Blake
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SYNOPSIS
The hilarious Dana Carvey showcases his dazzling impersonation skills in MASTER OF DISGUISE, a comedy about an innocent man who discovers that he has a rare, though mildly annoying, gift. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, mild language and some crude humor
RUNTIME
80 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 2, 2002
Video: Jan 28, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Master of Disguise Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "The only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants... who might be distracted by the movie's quick movements and sounds."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"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."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"With a "Spy Kids" sequel opening next week, why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a "SNL" has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling Roberto Benigni?"
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Master of Disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"The Master of Disguise is funny--not "ha ha" funny, "dead circus performer" funny. And for all the wrong reasons besides."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
 "I know I shouldn’t have laughed, but hey, those farts got to my inner nine-year-old."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"The Master of Disguise may have made a great Saturday Night Live sketch, but a great movie it is not."
-- Paul Doro, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"[Carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated, but then again, subtlety has never been his trademark."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"Unfortunately, Carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with Harris Goldberg."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"It's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak, and it has been unearthed and released now, when it has become even weaker."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"In a big corner office in Hell, Satan is throwing up his hands in surrender, is firing his R&D people, and has decided he will just screen The Master of Disguise 24/7."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"Sadly, 'Garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'Wayne.'"
-- Shirley Klass, FANTASTICA DAILY
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"No amount of nostalgia for Carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that Carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"The film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart, mind or humor of its own."
-- Bridget Byrne, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"There’s no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer. Or for the year, for that matter."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"The Master Of Disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"[A] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"The Master of Disguise represents Adam Sandler’s latest attempt to dumb down the universe."
-- Dan Fienberg, L.A. WEEKLY
"This wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt, it's the worst movie I've seen this summer."
-- Susan Granger, WWW.SUSANGRANGER.COM
"On the bright side, it contains Jesse Ventura's best work since the XFL."
-- Stephen Himes, FILM SNOBS
"It showcases Carvey's talent for voices, but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff."
-- Tom Keogh, SEATTLE TIMES
"This pathetic junk is barely an hour long. Nevertheless, it still seems endless."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 2.1/10 |
"A 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"The Master of Disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on Saturday Night Live.'"
-- Reilly Capps, BOSTON GLOBE
"The movie is a desperate miscalculation. It gives poor Dana Carvey nothing to do that is really funny, and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"No one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through The Master of Disguise."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"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."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"A jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting, shooting or post-production stages."
-- Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
"The only camouflage Carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public, to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"At times, it actually hurts to watch."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The film contains no good jokes, no good scenes, barely a moment when Carvey's Saturday Night Live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment."
-- Jack Mathews, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. It still feels like a prison stretch."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
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"The Master of Disguise is awful. It's Pauly Shore awful. Don't say you weren't warned."
-- Kim Linekin, EYE WEEKLY
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