The Master of Disguise

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The Master of Disguise
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Directed by	Perry Andelin Blake
Produced by	Barry Bernardi Sid Ganis Todd Garner Alex Siskin
Written by	Dana Carvey Harris Goldberg
Starring	Dana Carvey Jennifer Esposito Harold Gould James Brolin Brent Spiner
Music by	Marc Ellis
Cinematography	Peter Lyons Collister
Editing by	Peck Prior Sandy Solowitz
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	August 2, 2002
Running time	80 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$16 million^[1]
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The Master of Disguise is a comedy film released in 2002 starring Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, James Brolin and Brent Spiner. Adam Sandler produced The Master of Disguise through his Happy Madison production company.

1 Plot
2 List of Pistachio's disguises
3 Reception
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot

The plot is centered on Carvey as "Pistachio Disguisey", a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. The patriarch of the Disguisey family (Brolin) is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman (Spiner) in an attempt to steal a variety of priceless artifacts.

Taglines:

He can get into any disguise... getting out is another story.
1,000 Faces... And Not a Single Clue.
Disguise the Limit.

[edit] List of Pistachio's disguises

Tony Montana from Scarface
Quint from Jaws
Henchman
Turtle Guy
Gammy Num-Nums
Prince Lalijama of the Ringidingi Heights near Bombay, Calcutta, and New Delhi
Overinflated Pistachio
George W. Bush
Terry Suave
Captain America (deleted scene)
Constable Mueller
A patch of grass with a piece of fake cow feces as a helmet
Cherry pie
Mayor Maynot (end credits/deleted scene)
Maximus from Gladiator (end credits)
Bob Ross (end credits)
Forrest Gump (end credits)
Groucho Marx (end credits)
Caveman (end credits)
Vampire (end credits)

[edit] Reception

Although the movie was a massive critical failure, it still managed to make back more than double its 16 million dollar production budget at the U.S Box Office, grossing approximately 40 million dollars, and making 43 million worldwide. The plot was considered sophomoric even for a purported children's movie,^[who?] compounding the fact that there were several "disguises" that would clearly not be recognized by youngsters (Tony Montana from Scarface, for example). In addition, there were many indications that the film was rushed; for example, there are scenes hinted at in the trailers that do not appear in the actual movie. Also, the cinematography and special effects are considered quite poor for a movie released in 2002, especially when the camera very obviously turns away from a Disguisey as he is coming out of/going into a disguise. In March 2007, aggregate review website Rotten Tomatoes ranked the movie as the 9th worst-reviewed movie of all time. ^[2] Comedian and former Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Michael J. Nelson named the film the third-worst comedy ever made.^[3] In February 2005, the film was listed among the Internet Movie Database's "Bottom 100" movies, meaning that it is considered one of the worst films ever made among voters at that website. However as of December 2007, the film is no longer in the "bottom 100".

[edit] Trivia

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The All That cast appeared in a deleted scene of this movie.
Dana Carvey did notable impressions of George H. W. Bush on Saturday Night Live. In this movie, Carvey uses Bush's son, George W. Bush as a disguise.
When disguised as Prince Lalijama Pistachio plays Kenny G.'s Songbird on his flute. In the movie, Wayne's World 2, also starring Dana Carvey, he refers to Kenny G. music implying it's like a trip to the dentist.