The Master of Disguise

This lamentably limp comedy cruelly demonstrates why Dana Carvey does not enjoy the superstar status of his Wayne's World co-star Mike Myers. Carvey plays a sheltered Italian youth, Pistachio Disguisey, who belatedly discovers that he has amazing powers of disguise and uses them to rescue his parents from the clutches of evil mastermind Devlin Bowman (played by Star Trek's Brent Spiner). When the nearest thing to a genuine joke is the bad guy's propensity for breaking wind whenever he laughs, you can be pretty sure that you're not in the hands of comedy geniuses. While some of the make-up effects are mildly diverting (Carvey disguises himself as a turtle and a cherry pie), they hardly make up for the lame screenplay, barely coherent plot and increasingly desperate mugging. Despite the producers' claim to the contrary, the original "Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon Chaney, can rest easy in his grave.