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The Master Of Disguise
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 out of 4
Review by Susan Granger
0 stars out of 4
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Hot on the heels of Mike Myers's tour-de-force in "Austin Powers in
Goldmember," his "Wayne's World" sidekick, Dana Carvey, also attempts to play
multiple characters. In this wretchedly unfunny comedy, Carvey plays a dork
named Pistachio Disguisey, the descendant of a long line of disguise artists.
His father, Fabbrizio (James Brolin), runs an Italian restaurant where Pistachio
works as a waiter. But then Pistachio's parents are kidnapped by Devlin Bowman
(Brent Spiner - a.k.a. Data from "Star Trek"), an evil art collector who suffers
from acute flatulence. Bowman's Black Market E-Bay website offers items like the
Liberty Bell, the original American Constitution, the Apollo 11 moon module and
Bruce Willis' hairpiece from "Die Hard 2." Pistachio is helpless until his
grandfather (Harold Gould) teaches him the family tradition of visual deception,
a device he can use to rescue them, and hires him a lovely assistant (Jennifer
Esposito). In one scene, Carvey goes into the all-male Turtle Club dressed as
Turtle Guy, coming out of his shell to repeat: "Turtle, turtle..."; in another,
he crashes a party impersonating Al Pacino in "Scarface" with a bright red shirt
and heavy Cuban accent; then he's an Indian fakir. Carvey wrote the shoddy,
senseless screenplay with Harris Goldberg ("Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo") and the
whole superfluous, sketchy mess is directed with vulgarity by first-timer Perry
Andelin Blake. "It's so crazy it might work" is Carvey's oft-repeated phrase -
but, no, unfortunately, it won't - even with contrived cameos by Gov. Jesse
Ventura, Bo Derek, Jessica Simpson and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson. It's a
chaotic embarrassment. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Master of
Disguise" is an inane, awful 1. No doubt, it's the worst movie I've seen this
summer.
Copyright © 2002 Susan Granger
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