Despite being panned by critics and landing at number — on IMDB’s worst 250 movies of all time, this is not awful. Considering all the horrible teen sex romps, this is a tolerable movie. Dana Carvey tries his hardest at forming these near flawless impressions of Al Pacino from “Scarface”, and (my favorite) Robert Shaw from “Jaws”.
Sure, adults will hate it, but the kids will love the innocent plotline and on key impressions by Carvey, not to mention Jennifer Esposito who stars as his assistant is really hot. Sigh, I remember the hay days of Saturday Night Live when Dana Carvey was the king of impressions and goofy characters, but in this he looks tired and makes impressions look tired and old. After a long period of years with his absence he finally returns in this travesty. Dana Carvey is a terrible actor providing a horrible Italian accent with his lame character Pistachio. Not to mention, the character is poorly named: Pistachio Disguisey… oh, his last name matches what he does! Oh, man that’s so… lame. He fumbles around the movie creating these terrible characters, and what’s worse the trailer features characters that aren’t even in the movie.
There’s some old lady, and a rich suave guy, and, the worst of them all “Turtle Guy”. Either he had no other option but to make this horrible movie, or he did this for his kids to watch. Ugh. The entire movie is tailored for kids but there are also some sexual references including many innuendos towards butts and boobs. There are also a lot of “B” list celebrity cameos from Jesse Ventura to Jessica Simpson who are put on display in these meager cameos that add nothing to the story. There are desperate attempts at pulling a laugh from the audience including the villain who farts every time he laughs and a horrible pop up story book gag that instantly becomes tired within seconds. This is a bad flick that will appeal mostly to kids ranging from ages 5-11, but adults will leave halfway through. I found it almost tolerable.