Why Was The Master of Disguise Made?

Today we look at the most baffling of comedies, The Master of Disguise. And maybe I recommend it??
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[@poposterous236]

This was on an in-flight movie once. People still walked out.

[@russellharrell2747]

Classic.

[@RyanPerfect]

ExTREMEly horrible movie!!!

[@ralphyetmore]

Hey, look. That comment had one more crafted joke than was in Master of Disguise.

[@jwhaler82]

😅😅😅

[@dancepiglover]

They’d rather jump out of the plane with no parachute.

[@Ryfangor]

I'm not gonna lie the part where yall just dunk on To Boldy Flee really got me

[@benjaminryder770]

I would find it unwatchable now, especially after hearing about the behind the scenes drama. But I'm happy that Allison, Phelan, and Matt are all still such great friends.

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

As someone who's seen both To Boldly Flee and Master of Disguise, I would rather sit through the Turtle Club scene a thousand times before I'd ever watch TBF again

[@dylanstratford7385]

Id take master of disguise over to boldy flee any day of the week

[@limalepakko6074]

Why is that movie over three hours?

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

@@limalepakko6074 because Doug has no idea how to write a good film and thinks the longer it is, the better the quality

[@lanceturley7745]

Honestly, this feels like some Hollywood exec saw how huge Mike Myers was at the time with Austin Powers and Shrek, and said "Find the other Wayne's World guy and give him a blank check."

[@Cyber_kumo]

Or Dana Carvey was desperate in getting some kind of job he begged Adam Sandler for a movie because it’s Happy Madison. Sandler’s production company bad reputation speaks for itself, cheap crappy comedy movies made for his friends so they can have a job.

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@Cyber_kumo exactly! I’m so glad that I’m encountering someone who’s actually smart. Adam sandler is the biggest loser to ever make it in Hollywood and for some reason people can’t get enough of his shit movies. There’s no such thing as a good adam sandler movie… even his so called “dramatic movies” are terrible. Did you ever see Punch Drunk Love? That was one of the worst movies ever made

[@Digglesisdead]

​@nsasupporter7557 I actually like Hotel Transylvania. I thought the writing was good and it was actually pretty funny. So I'd make the case that there's at least one.

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@Digglesisdead that’s reasonable. But It’s just that with him, everybody steals the show from him; that’s part of why/how he sucks

[@Spacemutiny]

@@Cyber_kumoexcept Grandmas Boy is a masterpiece

[@JomasterTheSecond]

The Turtle Club man stays in my head rent free and I want him to leave already.

[@thatonea-hole]

Aside from how weird it is in movie, outside of it. The weirder thing is that scene was THE FIRST scene shot for the movie & it was right after 9/11

[@stapler942]

I assume he's not getting his damage deposit back. 😆

[@caucasoidape8838]

Would have made a great SNL skit, or super bowl commercial.

[@bareakon]

Is he not turtle-y enough for your head?

[@HooLeePhucingSheet]

I'll take him

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Ah! The only movie I've ever walked out of the theater on! I worked there, got in for free with friends. The movie was notoriously short, we had an hour to kill in-between movies we actually wanted to see...and we walked out after 25 minutes. Loitering in the lobby seemed like a better use of our time.

[@movieboy01]

I only walked out of Speed 2:Cruise Control.

[@Saru5000]

I've never walked out of a movie, but my legs tensed up to walk out of Battlefield Earth on their own accord. A friend walked out of Bad Boys. "I can't take this shit," got up, walked out.

[@SkepticalShelby]

I’ve only walked out of two movies. Both horrendous comedies. Tom Arnold’s “McHale’s Navy” And Tim Allen’s “Christmas with the Kranks”.

[@Faction.Paradox]

"This turtle club scene doesn't appear to have any actual jokes in it" "Don't worry I'll just keep saying the word turtle that's what comedic repetition is, right?"

[@thatonea-hole]

Fun fact: The turtle 🐢 club scene was filmed right after 9/11 happened. The cast & crew felt uncomfortable on set, filming such a silly scene after such a tragedy befell the country. Heck, there was a moment of silence before they started filming & the director gave a heartfelt speech about it, all the while Dana Carvey was in the turtle 🐢 costume

[@stapler942]

As a jazz KZbinr once put it, "repetition legitimizes." 😆

[@ironmaster6496]

​@@thatonea-holeThat sounds like a family guy joke

[@jacobmartens3810]

Considering it's the only scene most people remember, it's the most successful part of the movie.

[@robertfrancois6064]

The only other thing I think I remember is he had a girlfriend with balloons for cheeks

[@suppichan27]

I remember my mom taking me to the movies spontaneously one day. Master of Disguise and Austin Powers: Goldfinger were playing at the same time slot when we got there. Mom didn't like Austin Powers, so we saw MoD. When the credits started my mom went "...we should've gone to Austin Powers."

[@Giran_0]

Goldmember*

[@spicymemes7458]

Wayne +1 Garth 0

[@SmoothAdventureProductions]

Saw this in a theater. As the end credits rolled a ten year old kid stood up and loudly proclaimed "That was stupid!" He got the biggest laugh of the night.

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

I remember in the Bushwacked vid with Matt, you said something along the lines of, "I think everyone has that movie from their childhood that they look back on like "Why..."." This was mine. This was my "Why..." movie. My mom loved Dana Carvey, my sisters and I were the prime age where "lol random" humor was Comedy Gold, and we must've rewatched this movie a thousand times before around the age of 13, I was like, "wow this is so unfunny, how did I ever find this funny?" and never watched it again.

[@elegantdisarray]

I think mine might be The Pest with John Leguizamo. That's a difficult one to get through now. But my family loved it.

[@angelsinger4574]

For me, it was “Short Circuit.” The 80’s were weird.

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

@@angelsinger4574 hey, laser lips! Your momma was a snow blower!

[@todd8398]

Nostalgia is one helluva drug.

[@solouno2280]

El libro de la vida. Bart Simpson

[@Caernath]

I suspect that 'To Boldly Flee' was just 'The Master of Disguise' trying out its entire sci-fi costume closet.

[@dcflake5645]

The Master of Disguise is less problematic

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

@@dcflake5645 And when a movie with brownface is less problematic, then you know there is something really wrong.

[@jeffweskamp3685]

Roger Ebert said this movie was like a party guest who think's he's funny but really isn't. He also said the overlong end credits were like the guest refusing to leave.

[@tytippy2]

My stepfather brought me to see this as a way to bond when I was 5 years old and we smuggled cosmic brownies and Gatorade into the movie theater. I remember cackling over the turtle, but it says a lot about the movie that I remember more about the snacks than I do the plot lmaooo

[@tytippy2]

Also, the guy who played Thing was also Belthazor in Charmed

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I liked the turtle part as well!

[@FaeQueenCory]

This movie was made to traumatize millennials with the Turtle Guy not being turtle-y enough for the Turtle Club.

[@thatonea-hole]

Ironically, it was to help un-traumatize the people of 2000s. Since this was after 9/11

[@user-ly9wr8wj5s]

Bro, that joke is brilliant! What do you not get? I mean think about the layers, he's dressed like a turtle, and he says turtle. Did you get that? He's dressed like a turtle AND HE SAYS......TURTLE!!!

[@johnsensebe3153]

I imagine this to be like the remake of _The Wicker Man._ You watch clips on KZbin, and it looks insane with Nic Cage in a bear costume punching women and the infamous bees scene, but then you watch the movie and it's a slog to get through.

[@caucasoidape8838]

The original with Christopher Lee is good.

[@johnsensebe3153]

@@caucasoidape8838 And it's a musical!

[@caucasoidape8838]

@@johnsensebe3153 I never really thought of it that way, I guess because the weird culture explained why the villagers would just break into song like that.

[@johnsensebe3153]

@@caucasoidape8838 Even when alone, with music?

[@steveg5122]

The Brent Spiner fart joke is the best joke in the movie.

[@mrskittles08]

Look, I have to ask this near the top so someone sees it. Is it just me or are they both SUPER fucking high?

[@PandaMonium92827]

Or anything from Grandpa "put a clamp on that pastry hole!" The mood for everyone watching this movie....

[@Wanttowrite]

​@@mrskittles08 They would have to be to watch and review this.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

@@mrskittles08 I don't think you have any idea what _"super fucking"_ high looks and sounds like. Because this isn't it. At all! How are they behaving any differently than in other videos they've done together anyway?

[@matthewmoran5297]

It's the only *good* joke in the movie.

[@DavidMChannel]

"Master of Disguise is better than To Boldly Flee"- as someone who saw it semi-recently out of morbid curiousity I one hundred percent believe this

[@gracekim25]

Same

[@Wraiven22]

I was a kid watching a lot of Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network around this time and I remember the trailers for this movie were played CONSTANTLY. Like, you were guaranteed to see an ad for this film every single commercial break. That’s literally all I know about this film.

[@fritzy8318]

Same. They were RELENTLESS with trailers for this.

[@amandabaker4678]

Yes - I have never seen the movie, but they played those ads so often, that over 20 years later the "am I not turtle-y enough for you?" line still pops into my head at random moments!

[@Boonehams]

I will never stop mentioning that Dana Carvey based Garth on his brother, Brad, who went on to program plugins for Photoshop and created the Video Toaster editing suite.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Good to know.

[@Dreadjaws]

This movie was kind of the precursor to all of those Scary Movie spinoffs like "Epic Movie" or "Meet the Spartans", where they'd just put a bunch of references to other films without rhyme or reason and that was the joke. "It's funny because I've heard of it!" It's no satire or commentary, it's just a reference, and not even told in a humorous way. It's a special kind of comedy film where all the scenes with fart jokes are genuinely the funniest part. And the whole "Stop trying to become another person!" thing baffled me. He suddenly starts screaming that in the middle of the chase scene, as if there was at some point some subplot about being unable to control his abilities, but such a thing is never established in the movie. There's the whole "dark side of Energico" at the end, but it's barely related and it's only then that he learns about why it might be a bad thing, so why would he protest earlier? I know there's a lot of nonsense in this movie, but that particular bit has stuck with me for years.

[@caucasoidape8838]

Even as a young teen I thought Scary Movie sucked.

[@Giran_0]

​@@caucasoidape8838 the first 2 are actually funny and they did find a way to put multiple things into one and it make sense, the others however did not fare so well and kept getting worse

[@MattMcIrvin]

I kind of thought of those as the degenerate form of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style of comedy ("Airplane!" and its successors). ZAZ made some really funny movies that way, parodies done with the philosophy that you just stick in as many jokes as possible and if someone didn't like the last one, there'll be another along in about five seconds. But in the hands of a hack, it's mind-numbing. It's no longer surprising that you dropped a reference out of the blue because that's the whole movie. And I think part of what makes "Airplane!" work is that, oddly, there are the bones of an actual story inside it (the old disaster move "Zero Hour!") That keeps you oriented and gives the constant jokes something to play off of.

[@BokBarber]

"Written for his 9 year old sons" That tracks. I was 11 when this came out, and thought it was pretty funny.

[@chronoplague]

This movie feels like a D&D game where the rogue has made a silly character and someone else in the party has to do all the leg work. But the DM loves the rogue, so everything revolves around that character.

[@whiteydiamond]

Get a life

[@llewelynshingler2173]

As Master of Dungeons, I make a new Rule: If you make a Character based on Pistashio Disgusey, that character dies before you begin character creation.

[@NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois]

Well said!

[@MissAshley42]

I once dated someone who thought this film was the peak of comedy. . .The relationship was mercifully brief.

[@BrendonSmall456]

Just like the movie

[@caucasoidape8838]

You dodged a bullet for sure.

[@adamgreenspan4988]

Just contemplating that caused me a moment of existential horror.

[@chargree]

It’s probably more from a fault he saw in you. If not your poor taste in movies, it was most likely your baseless sense of self importance and superiority. You have no justification for it. I am sure he is more thankful for the brevity than you are.

[@crimsondynamo615]

I’d rather be with someone who said Freddy got fingered is genius than someone who loved this tripe

[@kaelang12]

I remember being obsessed with this movie as a kid. For the record, Brent Spiner is absolutely the best part of this film.

[@Scribblerjohnny]

So many people just went around saying "Turtle turtle." Drove me mental.

[@Santoryu90]

It was one of the very few things in the movie that was kinda funny.

[@HooLeePhucingSheet]

Tuurrrtttleeee

[@Xepscern]

You know a movie is a rough watch when you instinctually look up the poor up-in-comer in it (in this case, Jennifer Esposito) and hope to god this didn't tank their career.

[@banishedtothebackshelf]

I actually believe this is the only movie that the fart jokes work 💀

[@drakkenmensch]

Brent Spinner REALLY sells the uncomfortable silence effectively.

[@banishedtothebackshelf]

@@drakkenmensch Amen 🙏

[@Dreadjaws]

This is because in an inexplicable way they actually understood that the fart itself cannot be the joke. It's an odd perfect understanding of humor in an otherwise entirely incompetent use of it.

[@AnikMonette]

Cuz everything else sucks!😅

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

This movie reminds me of when in 'Allo 'Allo, René says this about Monsieur LeClerc's terrible disguises - "The man of a thousand faces - all of them the same."

[@fluffyman85]

Joins Dan Akyroyd's "Nothing But Trouble", Eddie Murphy's "Norbit" and Mike Myers' "The Love Guru" in a genre I'd like to call "Comedians Utterly Failing to make a vanity or comeback film while wearing ridiculous make-up." Bonus points for putting on a stupid voice.

[@goranisacson2502]

... See now that you lined them up like that I wonder why comediams kept making movies like that.

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

Nothing But Trouble at least has amazing set design and originality for the premise.

[@wstine79]

I'm glad I am Movie enough for the Movie Nights Club.

[@nynu8597]

It's funny to get older and realize how bad this movie is, but as a child, this movie was in the VCR 24/7. It's got a special place in my heart.

[@nickbell8353]

I'll be honest, I completely forgot about To Boldly Flee until you guys mentioned it.

[@Alexander_Stern1]

One of the worst days in all of history occurred in September of 2001. And that plane thing that happened two weeks earlier was pretty bad, too.

[@nuligebla1173]

Dang Jay Johnston threw away a pretty prestigious career on Jan 6th. I looked him up on Wikipedia because he seemed so familiar. He was a writer and actor on Mr. Show. He wrote and directed episodes of Moral Orel. And he was an actor on The Sarah Silverman Show, and made guest appearances on Arrested Development, Bob's Burgers, Parks and Rec, Community, and every funny TV show you can think of. He had to know every writer and comedian in television. He turned himself into the FBI on June 7, 2023. It was alleged he used a stolen police shield in an attack in the tunnels against the Capitol Police.

[@melaniesheldon8013]

This is the reason why his art is a guilty pleasure. I'm pretty sure a lot of his old sketches from SNL are just as cringe

[@melaniesheldon8013]

I always had a crush on Michael Myers and Adam Sandler. But this jerk I don't like did some funny stuff for teens

[@HypeVoiceActing]

I love how they transitioned into unapologetic Channel Awesome bashing near the middle of the review lol

[@mathieuleader8601]

Turtle Turtle sounds like the name the Big Green Dub would give to Squirtle if they dubbed Pokemon

[@marioamador1600]

From the director's commentary, the reason for all the women in the film with massive butts was because Perry Andelin Blake wanted to push an "anti-anorexia" message (whatever that means.) Some kind of thing about "big women" being beautiful in the early 2000s but it kinda makes zero sense when you realize that every single woman in the film that Pistachio is attracted to is with a big butt prosthetic on a conventionally attractive actress (Sophia) or models (Bowman's henchwomen from the end credits) who are all also attempting to seduce Pistachio. And the movie also seems to write Jennifer as the woman he "settled" on. Kinda strange too how a movie that was semi-directed at kids featured a protagonist having a butt fetish and the main antagonist has a group of women attempt to corrupt him with his fetish (end credits scene.)

[@bradwolf07]

Brent Spiner has an excellent sense of comedic timing. I'm not surprised his stuff actually worked. And Jennifer Esposito has been in a few things. She was in Dracula 2000 for instance. She's good, but I don't think she's had the best luck with roles.

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

At least she was in The Looney Tunes Show, so she got to be part of a good comedy

[@jamesoblivion]

She had a lot of good roles prior to this. She was great in Summer of Sam and Welcome to Colinwood. After this movie, I think her options were limited.

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

for the longest time, my mom would quote "am i turtley enough for the turtle club?" and assumed it was some classic of comedy she was referencing. you would not believe when i found out that the origin was from what most people consider one of the worst films ever made

[@andrewollmann304]

So….my mom was a member of the Turtle Club, and the correct response to “Are you a member of the Turtle Club?” is “You bet your sweet ass, I am.”

[@onlyrevolutions2010]

I haven't even started the video yet, and I can tell you exactly why it was made - it was a vanity project for Dana Carvey, who felt that Mike Myers had stolen all his characters and impressions, particularly in the Austin Powers films. I was a kid when this movie was released, and Dana appeared on every talk show on every network in the weeks leading up to the release to talk about this film being his magnum opus and really hype it up. The big networks, especially NBC, ran ads and featurettes for it constantly. It was being plugged as the greatest comedy going into the new century. I went to see it with my mom, and when the credits rolled we just looked at each other like "that was it?". I don't remember laughing once. In fact, I just felt embarrassed.

[@adamkushner6793]

100%. There was baggage between them from the start. Carvey was initially the bigger star when they were both on SNL and when Myers wanted to put on the Wayne's World sketch, Lorne Michaels insisted that Carvey be a part of it which didn't sit well with Myers because he'd been doing the Wayne character for years before SNL and didn't think Wayne needed a sidekick. Even when it came to making the movie, he didn't think Garth should be a major character and initially Carvey wanted out of the movie because Myers kept undermining him. So once Austin Powers (and Shrek for that matter) put Myers on top of the world, Carvey tried to match him with this movie and it just failed spectacularly on every level.

[@MLBlue30]

​@@adamkushner6793He must have been happy after the Cat in the Hat & Love Guru bombed. Delayed revenge.

[@goranisacson2502]

Man, it's always a shame when you hear the behind the scenes stuff like this that reveals what you saw as an adventure with funny buddies had a whole heaping load of bitterness behind it. The art remains great, but the intentions feel soiled, somehow.

[@todd8398]

Seeing all the turtle club stuff reminded me that there's an actual semi-secret fraternity called "The Ancient & Honorable Order of Turtles". It was started by US air pilots after WWII and is basically a drinking club.

[@joeyjoejoe1394]

This is what all fraternal organizations are, really, my dad is a Mason and all he seems to do is go to meetings, and restock the beer at the lodge thru his job at Anheuser-Busch. It’s been said that the KKK would never have formed if Birmingham had an Elks Lodge

[@FilmBrain]

Turtle turtle!

[@thatonea-hole]

Am I *TURTLE-Y* enough for the turtle 🐢 club?

[@DarkfireTaimatsu]

I think it says something about a film when the fart jokes are the *funniest* part~

[@mracula1667]

I’ve been playing a Tortle in my current D&D game. “Turtle turtle” references have been made but I can’t wait to tell the table what happened in the movie other than that one second.

[@LeePresson]

Dana Carvey was one of the "catchphrase" comics. He would take a punchline and pummel it mercilessly.

[@leowilliamson1573]

"The third worst comedy I have ever seen." -Michael J. Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, on Master of Disguise

[@thenumberquelve158]

I have to admit, as a kid I did actually laugh at people doing weird accents for the sole reason of "funny sounding man I don't fully understand is so lol." I think I got over that around age 13, and by 14 any time I saw something like that I'd just shake my head like "why are you doing this". So if he literally was aiming to please SPECIFICALLY nine year olds, I think he could've done worse. If he wanted to actually make a movie with an actual story, not so much.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

The Brent Spiner farting scenes are comedy gold, he is supposed to be this serious villain yet every time he monologues, he farts... it is hilarious. Pity the rest of the movie is there though.

[@brentparker7359]

Phelous recently reviewed "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night" in which the Stromboli-type character, Puppetino, calls Pinocchio "Pistachio." This movie has a character actually named Pistachio, who fights a villain played by Brent Spiner. Spiner played Stromboli in "Geppetto." And William Windom, who voiced Puppetino, also appeared in "Star Trek" as Commodore Decker. EVERYTHING. IS. CONNECTED.

[@RySenkari]

The Master Of Disguise would have worked SO much better as a Nicktoon. As a live action movie it was god awful, but imagine if it popped up on Nickelodeon in 2002 or 2003 as a vehicle for Dana Carvey's voiceover talents (in the same way The Mighty B was a vehicle for Amy Poehler a few years later). Feel like it would've had a chance at supplanting Fairly Oddparents as the #2 Nicktoon of that era behind Spongebob.

[@roberttreacy8271]

That would’ve been awesome!

[@caucasoidape8838]

Maybe it would have kept Klasky Csupo around on Nick? lol

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s a really good idea-this movie probably would’ve been much better as a Nicktoon.

[@marielaberge8236]

Let's remember this was released a little over a year after Spy Kids (2001) which has a nonsensical surrealist style to it, so I can kind of see why the producers thought The Master of Disguise would be a hit if they just included a secret plot involving a missing family member, substituted a family tradition of espionage for "the master thief of disguise" family tradition, and packed it full of absurdity. I think they were trying to capture what Spy Kids succeeded at, but ended up waaaaay off the mark.

[@PaceFilmsProductions]

It the most quoted movie that I hate. Also funny fact in a podcast Brent Spiner said that this was one of the most fun productions he was ever on.

[@trooper9249]

Back when this movie came out, I remember 12 year old me really wanted to see this movie because I thought it looked so funny. Nowadays, I look back and feel like I narrowly dodged a bullet by not seeing it.

[@TheMellowFilmmaker]

The turtle scene might have been funny if someone jumped on him Super Mario style, kicked him, and Dana Carvey went flying back a forth.

[@Blinvy]

My cousin went crazy for this movie when she was 10 and the turtle scene was her favourite. I had to watch this movie multiple times when babysitting her. Agonizing but the movie clearly clicked with its target demo, I guess?

[@awhitney3063]

For some reason this was my youngest sister's favorite movie so I've seen it literally like hundreds of times, and I couldn't tell you the plot to save my life. It's truly an astounding movie in it's own right, I have no idea how it got made or distributed but my sister is very grateful! She still loves it. Also Brent Spiner in this is just *chef kiss* muah so good.

[@ShinGallon]

For years I wondered why Mike Meyers never threw a bone to his old friend Dana Carvey and offer him a spot in the Austin Powers movies...then I saw this movie.

[@thatonea-hole]

Mike Myers was like: "he is too far gone for my help."

[@stapler942]

I have a little theory that Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are both funnier when they have someone to play off of, or are part of an ensemble. My only frame of reference for Carvey is Wayne's World and this movie, so I can't say for sure. But Mike Myers had The Cat in the Hat and The Love Guru among his "solo" movies and those didn't fare well.

[@thatonea-hole]

@@stapler942 I mean a lot of wacky/funny people work best when they have a straight/normal person to play off of

[@nsasupporter7557]

I don’t understand why this movie was hated so much… it isn’t any worse than any adam sandler movie. Adam sandler is a god to pretty much everybody and they love his shit movies, so why do they hate Master of Disguise

[@caucasoidape8838]

@@nsasupporter7557 Sandler is willing to go more low brow, and boomers eat it up. lol

[@calumsyers9080]

This is the first time in forever that one of Allison's videos has been recommended. How did the algorithm know I was feeling nostalgiac for 2010s content creators?

[@cryptozoolibrarian]

My brother and I, in our youth, would do all night bad movie marathons while downing bottles of Jolt. We called this "Night of Pain." This movie was featured one of those nights.😒

[@theturtleclub6797]

We watched this movie over 200 times in the year 2022. I want y'all to know that it is a miserable way to experience this movie.

[@marioamador1600]

Nice to see you guys again. lol

[@MissLovebat]

I remember when this movie came out, I was still very little. I remember at one point my parents both just looked at each other in the theater, grabbed me and my brother, and just walked out. I want to say it was during the Turtle Club scene, but I can’t remember. 😅

[@elegantdisarray]

I enjoy both of your solo videos, but there's something about the chemistry you two have together that makes your collab vids just 😘👌

[@candidgamera]

Dana Carvey is my favorite SNL performer and, I think, one of the most talented - but Master of Disguise is a powerful rebuttal to that. Clean Slate is a hell of a lot better though.

[@DrakeBarrow]

That whole Quint from Jaws thing was the only legitimate funny gag in the movie. And it was pretty damn funny. "29 kids go in the water. 22 kids come out of the water. Ice cream man, he gets the rest." Ice cream men are apex predators in their niche, sharks of the land if you will.

[@danielvandersall6756]

What is astounding is that this film actually made 43$ million. It had a budget of 16 million. THIS FILM MADE MONEY. Dana's next appearance was in the Cinematic masterpiece "Jack and Jill."

[@elegantdisarray]

Mkay, but comparing this movie with To Boldly Flee had me dying 🤣

[@juliakrystosek8003]

Despite being a generally sensitive kid who didn't like broad comedy, I was inexplicably OBSESSED with this movie when I was twelve. I watched it a double digit number of times and could recite large swaths of it. I still don't know why.

[@juliakrystosek8003]

And no, I didn't get any of the references.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

How Did This Get Made's hosts had the theory that Dana Carvey's character was supposed to be a smallish child, like maybe 10 years old, which would make the whole movie actually make sense.

[@AllisonPregler]

Ah the old Clifford scenario

[@thatonea-hole]

@@AllisonPregler The old Calvin & Hobbes scenario

[@Prettywhite4awhiteguy]

Should've ended with Dana's kids telling him the story and him saying they should leave the comedy to him. Would've at least made it more about them and the nonsensical plot makes sense in a 9 yr old mindset

[@jonothanthrace1530]

@@AllisonPregler But with none of the charm.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

What an insult to ten-year-olds everywhere.

[@nonconnahordeath]

Jesus, you guys are such masochists. I don't know that I could put myself through The Master of Disguise for the sake of an audience. Thanks for the dedication!

[@The_Keh27]

oh man, if Dana got to make the movie HE wanted or a good version of the character, he could have crossed over with Austin Powers for a Mike & Dana reunion. And they have to go undercover as hosts of a public access tv show

[@fritzy8318]

The turtle scene is pretty much seared into my brain because it was in EVERY TRAILER which a bunch of played constantly before the movie came out. Funnily enough iirc the trailers weren’t as common afterwards as if they realized they had a hunk of shit at hand and just stopped advertising it as much. Which honestly is why reviews are the only reason I know a single thing that happened in the movie. I just thought it looked shit and didn’t bother asking my late dad to take me to see it. Fuckin 10 year old me who thought movies like bio dome and dude where’s my car were comedy gold realized this was awful.

[@fritzy8318]

It should be noted I think both mentioned films are hot garbage now. I used to watch bio dome constantly with my brother. A few years ago we watched it again. Only got about halfway through before quitting. I tried dude where’s my car too and hated it.

[@Shades14]

Hey, with Matt editing this video, he's kind of sort of reclaimed what was taken from him when he wanted to review it, but a certain someone else was gonna do it, so he reviwed Jack & Jill instead.

[@Tyrgermanic]

I'm surprised people in their 20s haven't tried to say this is actually great like every other movie that came out when that generation was young

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Maybe that lie dies with Gen-X.

[@gracekim25]

I don’t think anyone in gen Z is likely to say that 😂

[@gracekim25]

@@Alucard-A-La-Carteyeah 😅 pretty much

[@Tyrgermanic]

@@gracekim25 you'd be surprised... yesterday there was an article... Catwoman has fans. Catwoman! The movie! From the 2000s

[@mastermarkus5307]

I honestly think 80s kids did that nostalgia stuff the most obnoxiously. Like, some of those people consider The Goonies a classic...

[@joekearon1336]

If I wanted to see a turtle break dancing, I'd watch Michelangelo.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Masters of Disguise's Pistachio feels like he could be a cousin to the original Nutty Professor

[@harveyplissken4604]

Dana Carvey says "turtle, turtle" so many bloody times in this horrible film, I'm honestly surprised the Ninja Turtles didn't show up to tell Pistachio Disguisey to shut the fuck up.

[@SofaKingWeTodEd666]

Alison and Phelan have such great chemistry together!

[@SuperMarkerComicBro]

I remember as a kid (about 6 or 7 at the time), I really wanted to see this movie, just for the Turtle Guy. In fact, I was unhappy that my Mom wouldn't take me to see it opening day. Ah, the simpler times of youth...When a single "joke" in the trailer could make me want to see a movie as soon as possible. I was such a dumb little kid.

[@TheBlarggle]

I lost a friend over this movie. Not over any argument, but he invited me over one day to chill, smoke a lil somethin' and watch a movie he rented. He said it was the funniest movie he's ever seen. Sounded good to me. We light up, he puts on this movie and just laughs at the dumbest things. I left that day and never went back. I felt like Dee in that one episode of Always Sunny, when she's watching Lil' Kev watch cartoons.

[@allye9865]

I love watching people roast this movie

[@LadyLunarSatine]

Bringing up the Illuminati just had me remember Mike Meyers' film (series?) about his Pentaveret bit from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" and now I'm imagining how wild it'd have been to reference Pistachio in that (never saw it),

[@grabble7605]

_So I Married an Axe Murderer_ is great. _The Pentaverate_ ...I never saw it but it has mixed reviews and about a 5/10 perfect-middle score. And it was a miniseries. Six episodes.

[@kenraves7931]

So I worked as a caterer with my family in SOuth Pasadena for a decade and a half, and like in the basement of Castle Green they had a framed, signed poster for this movie in the laundry room for the tenants. It was behind arack full of decades of magazines and donated books, ahaha. I owned this on VHS and I loved it, and Signs. I don't know why I was given those at the same time, but I was happy for it. GOD THIS MOVIE RUINED ME. LIKE BETWEEN THIS AND STUFF LIKE ANGRY BEAVERS, I WAS DOOMED TO BE A GOOBER.

[@kolonarulez5222]

As kids we put it on specifically for the Turtle Club but I started crying in fear at the nose bit.

[@lancebaylis3169]

The 'disguise' aspect is probably the most glaring problem for me, which is a shame because it's the central concept of the movie. Imagine if Dana Carvey was Max in a movie version of Get Smart. Essentially, this movie but he's being forced to play one character consistently in all scenes, so there's a much better sense of progression from scene to scene because they aren't having to accommodate whatever whacky disguise he's wearing this time. I'm not saying that would be *better*, it may still have stunk, but I don't know, I just feel like that's what the movie really needs. Something. Anything.

[@Goobian]

I remember seeing ads for this movie at the time. I have seen him say am I turtley enough for the turtle club? Too many times.

[@Dimensioneer88]

I can't help it. This movie is a guilty pleasure, but I would love to see a reboot. Maybe focusing on the more mystical aspects of the movie.

[@wstine79]

I really like Dana Carvey. Aside from the Wayne's World movies, I liked him in Trapped in Paradise with Nicolas Cage and Jon Lovitz.

[@stephendexheimer7914]

Fun fact, Bad Boys was originally written with Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz in mind but after Trapped in Paradise bombed they rewrote the script with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in mind

[@tabbyc7143]

I think one of the main things that were burned into my memory by this movie as a kid (aside from the turtle club) was the ongoing 'Disgisy men like big butts' joke... which I was unfortunately just old enough to get

[@Pharaoh025]

Brent Spiner. Ok look. Yes, Star Trek can be an actor's death knell, much like Power Rangers or "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"... but "Master of Disguise" did NOT need to happen to Brent Spiner. I refuse to believe that the Star Trek Convention circuit doesn't pay enough to warrant this. Independance Day was more dignified a role for Brent than this was.

[@norbertovalle7928]

Great work you guys, idk how you y’all can keep a straight face working with one another, you guys are just too damn funny, especially Phelous. Y’all look good & keep it up.

[@BrendonSmall456]

I remember watching this movie as a kid and being glad it was so short because the end credits were the funniest part.

[@ToHoldNothing]

Weird how this release coincides with recent news on Mitch McConnell, who I think was poked fun at for looking very turtle like himself.

[@taejasper1343]

This is perhaps the best movie yet you guys have done together, Allison! Thanks for doing this! I love it so much, bro! BTW, you look pretty with your makeup and your pink shirt, too! What a great look!

[@AllisonPregler]

Aw thanks!

[@taejasper1343]

@@AllisonPregler Yeah, no problem, pretty girl! You look great, Allison! I love it!

[@limalepakko6074]

I like how enthusiastic about farts you are in this one

[@marcen12]

I laughed at the turtle joke in the trailer when I was 11. Laughed at "I'm going to be a Master of Disguise." in it. Then I watched the movie when it was on cable months later...turned it off 10 minutes later.

[@fusionspace175]

I'm trying to recall Dana Carvey's film career, but my mind is just a Clean Slate. (Yeah that's the Dana one, Blank Slate is a drama about an amnesiac sent to death row for a murder she can't remember. I can just see my mom mixing those up in the old no-cover Blockbuster days, like she actually did with Honeymoon in Vegas and Leaving Las Vegas. She just kept waiting for it to get funny, she said.)

[@Don_LUSH]

12:45 that Nam flashback was just perfect XD

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

I was not expecting Movie Nights to tackle an Happy Maddison movie... but then again, this is the same Movie Nights that talked about Pluto Nash and that Yumi Adachi dinosaur movie. That, and I was expecting not to expect things...

[@CaptainXJ]

As someone who is VERY forgiving to things, this is one of the few movies I have ever stopped watching and never finished it was so bad.

[@TheBigSimpleBean]

I was about 11 years old when this film came out. I saw it in the theater and then received it on DVD. I likely watched it dozens if not hundreds of times. The phrase “am I not turtle-y enough for the Turtle Club” comes into my head so often it has become the wallpaper of my life. Sometimes I dream of George Bush punching Brent Spiner into the pool before his fart explodes the water. “Tiny weener and some lil nuts” never leaves my mind. Master of Disguise made me the man I am today.

[@mastermarkus5307]

I've been waiting to see you two cover this! It's such a bonkers movie. I have no idea who it's supposed to appeal to.

[@liamhiggins7955]

About the complaint that Jennifer is just kind of a dull voice of reason character, well, that's one problem (among many) with Happy Madison movies isn't it? The woman in them barely ever get the chance to do much of anything. They are either: -The boring love interest -The Mom -Maybe a horny old lady once in a while -Sometimes Rachel Dratch will come in to play a quirky character? I mean there are exceptions, sure, but that's about the extent of how women are usually portrayed in Happy Madison movies. Hell this movie got Edie McClurg and she doesn't do shit except cook in the kitchen for 99% of her screen time!