The Master of Disguise (2002)

We’re headed down the final stretch of our month’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we reexamine some box office comedy disasters and see how they’ve held up over time. In the cases of “Ishtar” and “Freddy Got Fingered” we perhaps overlooked some quality filmmaking at the time. “Worst” label? We can honestly say that no movie we’ve discussed for the month belongs on any “worst” list…except maybe this one. We’ve never seen the comedic Dana Carvey family flick from 2002 called “The Master of Disguise” directed by Perry Andelin Blake up until we scheduled it for the show. It’s reputation of being terrible, and it’s strange urban lore surrounding 9/11, are most of what we’ve heard. We didn’t even know this was a kids movie. Or, at least, a movie for dumb kids. This might be for infants, actually. Another thing we didn’t know? The box office sales more than doubled the budget. It’s technically a “hit” but we just assumed it tanked like the other selections we’ve discussed this month. Critically, it ate shit but it didn’t seem to lose money. All these other flops we discussed dragged careers based on their box office and they all range from “not bad” to “actually great” but the worst fucking movie we’re discussing all month long actually made some profit. His name is Pistachio Disguisey for fucks sake. And that turtle scene. God help us.

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