It feels like it was made for toddlers, yet has a lot of adult jokes. Some say in the dankest Russian gulags, the most hardened criminals in the country are put in solitary confinement & forced to watch "Master of Disguise" "Son of the Mask" & "Monkeybone" over & over.
I have to come clean: i STILL laughed at the turtle scene when you showed it. I have no idea why it get's me but it does. My infant son once stretched out and bit my nose and my first thought was "He must be turtley enough for the turtle club" This movie is still trash tho
I wanna bet that the adult who handles the cat - that's her cat. She told the producer "Yeah, I have a cat and he's so calm! Honestly he could perform in front of a camera!", they wrote the episode, they brought in the cat, and she never considered that her cat probably acts differently when he's not in their home.
yknow, looking back on this, wherever they got the stock footage for these animals is really not looking after them right. that elephant has a pretty nasty skin condition...
Expectation is the gateway to disappointment. If you go into this film expecting an Oscar worthy performance you're gonna be disappointed. If you want to turn your brain off for an hour and a half and laugh at stupid jokes. Here ya go 😉 I was 13 years old when this came out. I thought it was hilarious. Today it's a nostalgia piece for simpler happy times with my family and friends. It's silly. But that's the point of the movie
I remember seeing the commercials as a kid thinking, “Wow, I’m seeing commercials for this movie everywhere! This must be a really hilarious movie!” And then finding the movie sometime later being played on TV and even my dumb little kid brain was like, “This movie sucks and is not funny at all!” And dumb little me was not very picky about movies.
This movie was at least in part filmed at a mall near where I grew up. At the time it was late summer (I believe the film is set in the south of California during the winter, so New England in late summer was close enough?) I remember going to the mall with my mother to pick up back to school clothes and we saw all this movie film crew stuff set up around the parking lot. I never saw Kevin James though :(
Oh LAWD I knew this movie didn’t hold up but it seems so much worse than I thought. I saw this in the theatre when it came out with my grandmother. I’m so sorry she had to sit through it. She probably just zoned out.
So when this movie came out I was around 9 years old, and judging by other people’s recollections and how it made a fairly decent box office, I think the ads/trailers really pulled one over on a lot of people convincing them it would be funny: myself included. For whatever reason, I was weirdly excited and insistent that I had to see this movie, the main things I remember anticipating being the turtle club scene (of course) and whenever he says, “I’m going to be the master of disguise,” in this sing-songy way-it legitimately still pops into my head sometimes to this day, to my chagrin. Because of this, when I was staying over at my aunt and uncle’s one night, I convinced them this was the movie we had to rent and watch together, and eagerly hyped up what I’d seen in the commercials despite their warranted scepticism. I remember almost nothing from the actual movie; most of the scenes recapped in this video I have little or no recollection of. What I *do* remember is the overwhelming sense of despair and complete mortification I began feeling almost as soon as we started watching it. By the turtle club scene, I realized what a terrible mistake I’d made, and the shame of forcing other people to watch this abomination with me under the presumption it would actually be funny was immense. It was obvious my aunt and uncle despised it as much as I did, but for whatever reason, we watched it until the end. I assume they were trying to be nice, while I was hoping that somehow, someway, something might happen or a joke might land that would make it not a complete waste of time to lessen my guilt, and therefore didn’t request we just turn it off like I desperately wanted to. But that moment never came, and my anxious childhood self didn’t know how to make light of the situation and simply say, “Wow, that was bad,” and laugh it off, so I mostly stayed silent as I grappled with the feeling that I would never live that moment down. I don’t remember ever picking the movie any time I stayed with them after that. I don’t think it was because they didn’t trust my judgement, but more that I didn’t trust myself not to make the same mistake again. But maybe they also didn’t trust my judgement for a little while afterwards-understandably. tl;dr As a child under the age of 10 I thought this movie was the most offensive, worthless piece of garbage I’d ever seen that might taint my reputation with my family irrevocably for unknowingly endorsing it, so for all the people who liked it as a kid or have nostalgia for it, I can’t wrap my head around that, but honestly good for you. You obviously had a lot more fun watching it than me, and for that you are lucky, because I would’ve given anything to have been able to curl in on myself like a turtle to escape that 85 minute hell of my own making.
00:10 I feel like this should show how much I respect Brutal Moose that I’m watching this since I knew Dana Carvey from SNL and stand up as a kid and thought he was funny. I was 14 when this movie came out and thought it looked like the stupidest shit I had ever seen and I’ve totally refused to interact with any of it since then including ever watching anything from Dana Carvey ever again… Let’s watch!
You don't wawnt to know the stuff us girls did with our barbie dolls while playing pretend. We'd have story lines for our characters that make Game of Thrones look like peppa pig.
