78 - The Master Of Disguise

Connection To I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER - Jennifer Esposito.

Thank God it was only 80 minutes... that is all I have to say, and while it doesn't plum the depths of Disaster Movie (there was less eye rolling here and I made it past 5 minutes without wanting to switch if off). The Master Of Disguise was mean't as a starring vehicle for Dana Carvey, and it's a shame it's a rancid turd of a movie because I think he's a talented bloke.

The movie was likely designed to show off Carvey's skill of impressions (and voices) - and you can't deny he's good at that though his Eddie Murphy doesn't particularly like Eddie Murphy then a plot was just thrown together to try and tie it up, and Carvey plays Pistachio Disguisey, who doesn't realize he from a family that are masters of disguise  until Brent Spiner kidnaps his parents and then he finds out his heritage then it's basically a series of scenes of him doing impressions of famous people/characters/others including Quint from Jaws, Tony Montana (I should mention this is mean't to be a kids movie), Shrek (was it a nod or accidental) and George W. Bush, while his dad James Brolin as a number of celebs play him when he's in disguise including Bo Derek (more on her in a bit) and Jesse Ventura.

The love interest here as in all Happy Madison movies (I should have mentioned here) is a girl who's too good looking and has too nice of personality to fall for the main hero, in this film's case it's Jennifer Esposito, who is a good looking woman in my opinion. Spiner, as the villain though gets to have flatulence as one of his main characteristics, so yeah not his proudest cinematic moment...

The worst scene for me is when Pistachio misunderstanding and taking what the exclusive Turtle Club's name literally and acts as some part human/turtle, the scene is just so cringe-worthy.

Back to Bo Derek for some reason she was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress at the Razzies, this seems unfair she barely does anything (I am not a fan of that award ceremony anyway), so yeah I'm calling it out as crappy.

Overall, not funny, a series of scenes that if they had any humour would have just flown by but instead we're stuck with a crappy vehicle for somebody too talented for it.

77 - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Connection To CAN'T HARDLY WAIT - Jennifer Love Hewitt.

I mentioned in the post Seventy Five Films, about a couple of films I desired to revisit which included Shanghai Knights and this movie - Josie and The Pussycats was the last movie I'd watched before then and decided to go Can't Hardly Wait for 76 which features Jennifer Love Hewitt, you would guess I did this on purpose to get the chain to go that way to get to this film, but no it didn't occur to me at all at first, I was close to putting on Not Another Teen Movie (which spoofs part of Can't Hardly Wait) before my memory came back on JLH in this movie.

I really don't know why I have a desire to revisit this movie, it's maybe because I've watched a few late 90's horrors this month (Halloween H20, The Faculty), and they've both had a Kevin Williamson connection which I guess goes to show the impact Scream and he had on horror of the late 90's, and of course the original I Know What You Did Last Summer was written by Kevin Williamson - which I like to think he'd written years before and put in a draw until the studios came knocking and he just dusted it off but anyway this is Williamson-less and without spoiling the outcome of the first movie as two returnees in Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr.

My memory told me it wasn't a particularly good movie but watching it now, honestly despite it's faults I actually enjoyed watching it and for this purpose of just this write up I'm just going to put a spoiler mention here then talk about it freely from now on.

Yeah, the all getting lured to the Bahamas doesn't really need to happen, since the guy whose revealed to be the son of Ben (the guy who they ran over in the first movie) as already integrated himself well enough into Julie's (Hewitt) life, but I guess it makes a nice change of scenery and an excuse to include a tropical storm in a slasher movie.

We have an whole bunch of hotel staff, to mostly acts as victims though Jeffrey Combs is fun as his usual creepy self and Jennfier Esposito to me is always easy on the eyes, we also have an uncredited Jack Black complete with dreadlocks and fake accent, which I know the first movie had extra kills (2 I can remember) this kills off at least 7 or 8 who had no idea what they really did last summer, speaking of one of the victims, a work colleague of Prinze Jr who initially doesn't go to the Bahamas is John Hawkes, who is enjoyable and gets killed off way too quick - Prinze Jr must have had a different schedule because really his scenes are only with the others at the beginning and end.

I probably have to say that Freddie Prinze Jr. might be one of the least interesting actors in modern cinema, I felt like I've yet to see him light up the screen, maybe somebody reading this as seen something I haven't seen is just bland here, however it's maybe because at the time I most associated her with Moesha (which I didn't like) but Brandy Norwood really grew on my on performance here and cuteness (was never really into her)

the makes knew Hewitt had some assets so she wears tight clothing couple of times,she even strips to her bikini for a sunbed (which the handle gets tied up and she is trapped - marking the second film I've watched for this blog with that happening - the other was Killer Workout)

Overall, better then I remember or I just prefer it more now, though it's often predictable it does it's job well enough as a post-Scream slasher.