History Film / TheMasterOfDisguise

[[caption-width-right:350:"The third worst comedy I've seen."- Creator/MikeNelson]]

->''"Turtle!"''
-->-- One of the gags in the movie.

* BillingDisplacement: The director himself actually lampshades this on the DVD commentary, regarding Kenan Thompson's billing during the end titles as part of the main cast, despite his appearance being nothing more than a glorified cameo towards the end of the movie (and is joked that his spot during the end titles is just as long as his actual appearance in the movie itself was).

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The Cuteness was Grandpa Disguisey?!? What?!?]]

Oh, and he needs to hire a sidekick, who must be an attractive woman, [[FetishFuel preferably one with a nice, big bottom.]] So Pistachio's young friend Barney sends his unemployed mother, Jennifer Baker played by Creator/JenniferEsposito, for an interview and she gets the job (despite her obvious handicap of a bottom measurement of only 34 inches). So Pistachio and Jennifer hunt down his father's old nemesis, Devlin Bowman (played by Creator/BrentSpiner), and his new collection of priceless artifacts. Along the way, Pistachio learns to see past Jennifer's tragic lack of bottom-fat and love her, and she learns to love [[ObfuscatingInsanity him and his family's complete and total insanity.]]

* {{Gasshole}}: Devlin has a weird habit of interrupting his own {{Evil Laugh}}s by farting. [[RuleOfFunny Kids like farts, right?]]

* FailOSuckyName - Seriously, Pistachio Disguisey?!

Oh, and he needs to hire a sidekick, who must be an attractive woman, [[FetishFuel preferably one with a nice, big bottom.]] So Pistachio's young friend Barney sends his unemployed mother, Jennifer Baker played by Jennifer Esposito, for an interview and she gets the job (despite her obvious handicap of a bottom measurement of only 34 inches). So Pistachio and Jennifer hunt down his father's old nemesis, Devlin Bowman (played by Brent Spiner), and his new collection of priceless artefacts. Along the way, Pistachio learns to see past Jennifer's tragic lack of bottom-fat and love her, and she learns to love [[ObfuscatingInsanity him and his family's complete and total insanity.]]

Meant as Carvey's triumphant return to cinema after heart problems stopped his career, the film was universally panned by critics to the point where it winds up on many lists of "the worst films ever made". [[StarDerailingRole Carvey's own career was derailed as a result,]] as he wouldn't appear in another feature film until 2011's ''[[Film/JackAndJill Jack and Jill]]''. Nevertheless, it was still a hit at the box office, more than tripling its initial budget.

Meant as Carvey's triumphant return to cinema after heart problems stopped his career, the film was universally panned by critics to the point where it winds up on many lists of "the worst films ever made". [[StarDerailingRole Carvey's own career was derailed as a result,]] as he wouldn't appear in another feature film until 2011's '''[[Film/JackAndJill Jack and Jill]]. Nevertheless, it was still a hit at the box office, more than tripling its initial budget.

* StarDerailingRole: Dana Carvey.

* ActionPrologue - The movie begins with a backstory being narrated by Grandpa Disguisey, showing members of the Disguisey family in action throughout history.
* AerithAndBob - Pistachio is named after a nut, his sidekick's name is Jennifer. This is lampshaded by Jennifer who thought that her son was joking about his name.
* AppliedPhlebotinum - Energico is the magical Disguisey heritage that lets Pistachio apparently just ''grow'' studio-grade costumes, prosthetics and disguises.
* ArmorPiercingSlap - The Disguisey Family style of Martial Arts.
* AwesomeMcCoolname - Devlin Bowman ''is'' an awesome villain name.
* BulletSeed - As "Cherry Pie Man", Pistachio shot cherries at guys chasing him while infiltrating Bowman's [[SuperVillainLair secret underground lair.]] He even manages to do a headshot on one of them as he falls into the water.

* TheBait - Jennifer is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman so that Pistachio will mount a rescue operation and walk right into a trap.
* BigDamnHeroes - Jennifer is captured after spying on Devlin Bowman, so Pistachio swoops in at the nick of time, pretending to be a British Secret Agent who needs Jennifer's help. He talks Devlin into letting her go, rather than draw the attention of the British Secret Service to his lair. Later, Jennifer is kidnapped, but this time she was ''intended'' to serve as bait for Pistachio.
* ChubbyChaser - The Disguisey family have a thing for very big women, but more specifically women with huge bottoms. Father Disguisey is happily married to a rather large woman, and when Grandfather Disguisey points out what he considers a good-looking woman for Pistachio, an assessment that Pistachio clearly agrees with, it's someone even larger. There is also an implication that although Jennifer is still slim and small of bottom when she marries Pistachio, that she'll willingly gain weight for the man she loves after spending some quality time with Mama's deliciously fattening Italian food.

* ConservationOfNinjitsu - Devlin Bowman usually has his two henchmen chase off Pistachio quite successfully, but when Jennifer is in danger, Pistachio fights off a large gang of ninja henchmen to save her.
* CrazyEnoughToWork - Pistachio tends to believe that many of the plans suggested to him fall into this category. They usually don't.

* TheDarkSide - Energico has a Dark Side which Pistachio lampshades is just like ''Franchise/StarWars''. It involves using your powers for self-gain or BecomingTheMask when imitating bad guys.

* {{Gasshole}} - Devlin has a weird habit of interrupting his own {{Evil Laugh}}s by farting. [[RuleOfFunny Kids like farts, right?]]
* GrumpyOldMan - Grandfather Disguisey
* {{Housewife}} - Completely averted by Jennifer, a working single mother, and Momma, the head chef of an extremely successful, and extremely busy, Italian American restaurant.
* [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey I Have A Big Butt You Must Obey]] - Set during a climactic scene after the credits, Devlin Bowman summons a quartet of women with large posteriors to try seducing Pistachio over to the Darkside of Energico, to make him use his talents for booty (wealth) and booty (women).
* IntergenerationalFriendship - Pistachio is implied to be in his 20's while Barney is 7. It's even more this case when you consider that, in real life, Dana Carvey was in his late 40's when he made this movie.
* LatexPerfection - Skilled disguisers are able to pull this off.
* MasterOfDisguise - The movie hints that the Disguisey family were behind pretty much every myth and legend of this sort of thing, forever. And of course, one of the three main plots revolves around Pistachio learning to become the MasterOfDisguise [[TitleDrop that the title mentions.]]

* NeverASelfMadeWoman - Brought up and averted. Jennifer is informed about the job opportunity by her son, but she still has to go through an interview that has apparently sent many very qualified, jaded applicants running from them in tears. She also has to overcome the 'handicap' of her small size and miniscule bottom.
* NewspaperThinDisguise - Pistachio (as a "cow pie" man) somehow hides from Bowman's henchmen in this manner.
* RunningGag - There are two main ones -- Pistachio's obsession with big-bottomed women, and Devlin farting after every time he laughs.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior - Grandfather Disguisey no other, He does this to his grandson Pistachio, In most of the movie.
* ShoutOut - Several; one to ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' with the elder Disguisey stealing the Constitution, then to ''Film/TheCourtJester'' with the Secret Service agent's "Get it? Got it? Doubt it." And, of course, [[Franchise/StarWars "Energico" which has a Light Side and a Dark Side and gives the main character's family their superhuman powers.]]
* SlapStick - A.K.A. "Old Fashioned Humor", there's plenty of it.
* StarDerailingRole - Dana Carvey.
* SupervillainLair - Devlin's "Secret Underground Lair! Full of Rare Artifacts!" is one of these. It is actually underground, being a sub-basement of his manor-house. However, it is not elaborate enough to count as an ElaborateUndergroundBase, being only a single, museum-style, trophy room with a stage and a camera set-up to sell the rare artifacts on a secret black-market auction online. Oh, and some [[{{InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja}} ninjas]] in the ceiling.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat - Somehow the prerecorded hologram of Grandfather Disguisey knew some kid would run into the room to plan with them, among other things.
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage - Averted. Instead of actually seeing the interviewees, we just see the grandfather yelling "Out!" at poor applicant after poor applicant. Why he fires each is never really explained, though the subsequent scene with Jennifer sort of implies that it's because the applicants aren't beautiful women with huge bottoms.
* [[TropesforDummies Tropes for Dummies]] - The Master of Disguise for Dummies.
* YoureInsane - Fabrizio (still disguised as Music/JessicaSimpson) says this to Devlin.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Pistachio.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pistachio is implied to be in his 20's while Barney is 7. It's even more this case when you consider that, in real life, Dana Carvey was in his late 40's when he made this movie.

* HotMom - Jennifer Baker has a son from the very beginning, and she is played by Jennifer Esposito. Also played with in that Pistachio was, up until he met Jennifer, looking for a girl who looked "just like-a momma".

Meant as Carvey's triumphant return to cinema after heart problems stopped his career, the film was universally panned by critics to the point where it winds up on many lists of "the worst films ever made". [[CharacterDerailment Carvey's own career was derailed as a result,]] as he wouldn't appear in another feature film until 2011's '''[[Film/JackAndJill Jack and Jill]]. Nevertheless, it was still a hit at the box office, more than tripling its initial budget.

!!Tropes Used Include...

* YoureInsane: Fabrizio (still disguised as Music/JessicaSimpson) says this to Devlin.