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

[@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

[@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”.

[@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?

[@toidIllorTAmI]

I'll take him

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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!

[@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."

[@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!😅

[@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

[@FucTrump]

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!!!

[@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.

[@toidIllorTAmI]

Tuurrrtttleeee

[@wstine79]

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

[@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.

[@HypeVoiceActing]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@mathieuleader8601]

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

[@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.

[@DarkfireTaimatsu]

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

[@FilmBrain]

Turtle turtle!

[@thatonea-hole]

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

[@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.

[@LeePresson]

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

[@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."

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.😒

[@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?

[@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 😘👌

[@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. 😅

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@leannewho664]

honestly they could have just made a totally normal movie but every scene Dana Carvey is a different character

[@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.

[@Don_LUSH]

12:45 that Nam flashback was just perfect XD

[@SofaKingWeTodEd666]

Alison and Phelan have such great chemistry together!

[@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

[@elegantdisarray]

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

[@allye9865]

I love watching people roast this movie

[@Morbos1000]

I thought Church Lady was funny at first, but like any popular SNL sketch they quickly ran it into the ground. I think if you were around and actively watching SNL back in the late 80s when Carvey and that character was new you'd probably have liked it.

[@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.

[@mathieuleader8601]

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

[@jschap712]

In concept it was good. He was hugely popular and known for playing many characters, and having him play a master of disguise made sense. Of course we know the result. Wonder what we'd get if he instead played a spy or detective who has to pretend to be various celebrities and politicians, and it wasn't aimed it at kids.

[@roberttreacy8271]

That would’ve been interesting.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@kolonarulez5222]

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

[@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.)

[@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...

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

This is one of the first movies I remember watching. It probably did something to me but I don't have the money for therapy right now.

[@ZyxthePest]

Big Dana Carvey fan here. My mom introduced me to him when I was young with the Chopping Broccoli song and I sought all his stuff out. I think Clean Slate and his Critics Choice special are stuff that's held up remarkably well, but I get what you say when his stuff isn't for you. I gotta also say that yes, some impressions have not aged well. I cannot express my disappointment with this film enough. Saw it when I was about 12, chuckled once and then literally blurted out "THAT'S IT?!" when it ended. Happy Madison movies not being made with Sandler in mind have such a low bar when it comes actually finishing the movie. Strange Wilderness also comes to mind. I can't help but feel a bit bad for Dana, as he's arguably a nicer guy than Mike Myers from what I've heard and a pleasure to work with from all accounts. Also his son died of an OD last year...

[@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!

[@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.

[@DanielThomasHutton]

First time I have seen these two since early channel awesome days, nice to see them together and making content 😊

[@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.

[@helbent4]

I wonder if in desperation or creative bankruptcy they were going for one of the Scary Movie or other similar parody movies where they just randomly insert scenes parodying or referencing other, better, movies in order to get a laugh. Without realising that it could actually be funny if the scene related somehow thematically or otherwise fit in to the movie as a while? Although it does not help that simply referencing other movies is not in and of itself funny.

[@chrisdryer]

I have seen other reviews of this movie, and this one is the best. Good research! This movie was way ahead of this time. I am not sure if I ever want to see it... maybe in the future.

[@walkingcubkid]

15:47 it somehow got so popular, that Dana Carvey appeared on the kids choice awards as the turtle guy beside Rosie O’Donnell, whom was hosting the kids choice awards.

[@giuseppeianniello1998]

Fact Despite its status as one of the worst movies ever made, Master of Disguise received only one Razzie nomination. Bo Derek’s cameo in the beginning of the film was mentioned for Worst Supporting Actress. She lost against Madonna’s cameo in Die Another Day.

[@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.

[@PapaTaurean]

Yeah this wasn't a very funny movie. I mean Dan Carvey does great impressions... but a whole movie of them? Nope. Also... Sick To Boldly Flee burn lmao

[@thatonea-hole]

I think we can all agree that Master of Disguise 🥸 is definitely better than To Boldly Flee

[@nonconnahordeath]

16:57 they should've marketed it as a Lynchian/Cronenbergian horror-thriller, frankly

[@MandVersusNature]

The references remind me of those t-shirts that reference two unrelated things and there’s no reason for it. It was really refreshing to see you guys laugh about TBF and Doug. Been a big fan of you both for a long time. I had to laugh too.

[@Santoryu90]

This is one of those movies that I remember liking when I was younger then see it again and realize “nope it’s terrible”, the turtle scene and the fart joke still kinda funny though I guess.

[@talonthehand]

Never seen this movie, but I remember seeing ads for it all the time growing up. Maybe it was a preview on a tape I had?

[@sasamichan]

Movies and TV from this era were always slipping in references to R rated movies in Kids movies / cartoons . In two decades of Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Gremlins 2, Freakazoid, The Mask, Ace Ventura, Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, All That, Sam and Max, Aladin, The Critic, The Simpsons, and MANY other shows I have seen the comply not weird because they all did it practice of referencing R rated films to kids who didn't get the joke but knew it was a refence, I have been exposed to but never actually seen Scar Face Marathon Man Mommy Dearest The Shawshank Redemption Warriors Reiver Dogs Pulp Fiction Clock Work Orange Apocalypse Now Good Fellows Prince The Taming of the Shrew McBeth Romeo and Julliet Hamlet Robocop Rambo Friday the 13th Nightmare on Elm Street Halloween Child's Play Kujo Basic Instinct misery The Wicker Man The Exorcist Driving Ms Daisy Steel Magnolias La Mis The Pirates of Penzance H.M.S. Pinafore the Wedding of Figaro Carmen Saturday Night Feaver The Graduate Risky Business The Breakfast Club Ferris Bueller's Day Off Breakfast at Tiphany Pretty Woman When Harry Me Sally Paten Poltergeist It Go watch a Kids WB marathon or Boby's World, Rugrats, or a whole ton of other G rated shows you WILL see ONE of the movies from that list referenced . R rated refences in movies for 9 year olds is very common. I think most movies I saw for the 1st time as references 1st

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

It was made because Austin Powers was popular and Dana Carvey wanted to do something similar

[@limalepakko6074]

I like how enthusiastic about farts you are in this one

[@marcbasil]

Is phelous gonna review the MONDO-Corradi ‘Welcome Back, Pinocchio!’ nightmare..? Feel like that was a huge missed opportunity

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Yeah. Even Pinocchio: a True Story, although still a bad movie, feels so much funnier than this Italian-DPRK nightmare!

[@UJEvans]

I first watched this movie because of Phelan's Turly Gang review

[@jamesoblivion]

Real heel turn from Phelan!

[@Lazarus1095]

Why was The Master of disguise made? Simple question, easy answer: Someone gave Dana Carvey a movie contract before they saw the script.

[@psyko9660]

Omg!! This brought back SO many memories of my cousin and I when we were younger (the few times we didn't fight) and for sure the turtle club scene was the most memorable part of the movie. Kinda wish there was a sequel to be honest

[@TheBonkleFox]

the only reason master of disguise exists is so Vinny can occasionally reference the Turtle Club scene.

[@QuixoteX]

If you find a character annoying it might be because you are meant to find them annoying. Sometime you are not supposed to love them.

[@tmamone83]

I guess you could say Dana Carvey should have said, "Not gonna do it!"

[@SavāgeBückeṭ]

I had this on video as a child, I remember loving it. I found it again recently and decided to watch it with my Son as I remembered having the video.... I was not prepared for what we watched haha My Sons favourite scene is when Pistachio was dressed as the turtle to go to the turtle club 😂😂

[@LordJazzly]

So, it's been three months now... Have you guys started inexplicably quoting this masterpiece-of-shit yet? My _entire family_ still uses the "Ahh, fresh air!" quote on a regular basis; I had completely forgotten where it came from until I re-watched the movie on a whim earlier this year.

[@explosivooo]

Ah yes the movie only remembered for a single line. As well as that Mike Meyers airplane movie with "You put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble" Also Dana Carvey was always the poor man's Martin Short

[@caitm4138]

I wanted to watch this movie so badly as a child when it came out. Every time my family went to Blockbuster, I'd beg my mom to let me rent it. Every time, she said no. My mom forbid me from doing a lot of stuff that ultimately probably wasn't that bad, but she really did me a solid on banning me from watching "Master of Disguise." (Although she didn't quite get away without me occasionally asking people if I'm not turtle-y enough for the turtle club.)

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

Honestly, I thought the Brent spiner fart joke was the only humorous thing in the movie, mostly because when a joke is overdone its stops being funny and then becomes funny again. That's it for the movie.

[@davidwright1577]

The real question is are we ever getting more Baywatching

[@movieman410]

His grumpy old man I think was pretty funny