THE MASTER OF DISGUISE
"... 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." --Elvis Mitchell,
The New York Times
"'The Master of Disguise' 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...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. But acting funny
is not funny. Acting in a situation that's funny--that's funny." --Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"... 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...Remarkably little that
Carvey does in his various disguises is even faintly amusing." --Kevin
Thomas, The Los Angeles Times
"...unbearably tedious and unfunny ...Carvey tends to be grating and
crude; he flubs even a George W. Bush imitation...As if mirthlessness,
stupidity and contempt for the audience weren't crimes enough, the
makers of 'The Master of Disguise' throw in jokes about farts and
fat-bottomed girls and even one about a wiener that's grossly inappropriate
for a PG movie." --Jonathan Foreman,
The New York Post
"If there is anything sadder than a comic who will do anything for
laughs, it is a comic who does nothing for them. And then doesn't
get them...There are sight gags from the Three Stooges' reject pile
and flat references to 'The Exorcist' and 'Jaws,' for no discernible
reason other than that movie parodies were all the rage some time
back, when this script was mysteriously green-lighted." --Jan
Stuart, Newsday
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