It has been said that true artists must suffer. Well, suffering has certainly brought out the creativity in a lot of movie critics, who have written some of their most creative, and in some cases downright hilarious reviews about "The Maser of Disguise." The Incidentally, out of 85 reviews features on rottentomatoes.com, it has only gotten two good reviews for a rating of approximately 2%. I believe this is a first. Here are some excerpts from the reviews:
"'The Master of Disguise' opens the floodgates of suck, unleashing a torrent of rock-bottom idiocy on poor innocents who want to live in peace: the moviegoing public. Mere words cannot convey the pain.... The idea that this film was made in the genuine belief that it would entertain anyone is too nightmarish to contemplate. The only explanation is that it was green-lighted by an insidious extraterrestrial inhabiting the shell of a studio executive. It was released as a test, and if anyone laughs we'll be death-rayed en masse because we're too stupid to make good slaves." -- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"It's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak, and it has been unearthed and released now, when it has become even weaker." -- Chris Hewitt ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"In a big corner office in Hell, Satan is throwing up his hands in surrender, is firing his R&D people, and has decided he will just screen The Master of Disguise 24/7." --MaryAnn Johanson FLICK FILOSOPHER
"No one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through The Master of Disguise." -- Jonathan Foreman NEW YORK POST
"At times, it actually hurts to watch." -- Mick LaSalle SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. It still feels like a prison stretch." -- Elvis Mitchell NEW YORK TIMES
"Cruelly and brutally unfunny." -- Steven Rea PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"A painfully unfunny mess." -- John Monaghan DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Mostly this happy train wreck feels like a longer, better movie that was chopped up and reassembled by retarded monkeys." -- Gregory Weinkauf
"I really wanted to get up and walk out, but morbid curiosity held me in my seat to see if it ever got any better. It didn't. This blows beyond imagination." -- John Venable
"Surrealistically horrid." -- Frank Swietek
"so misconceived on every level, it's almost fascinating to watch. If you don't mind pain, that is. This movie knows how to make you hurt..." -- James Sanford
"A terrible disappointment for fans of Dana Carvey -- also for fans of comedy and fans of movies." -- Nell Minow
This dopey collection of gags masquerades as a movie, but it's not likely to fool many. --Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
It's the shoddiest, cheapest, most infantile joke in movies... --Jack Matthews
"...so bereft of comic invention that it flatlines during the opening credits. The Master of Disguise is awful. It's Pauly Shore awful." --KIM LINEKIN
Sort of makes me want to rent it, just to see how bad it really is.