Critics are doing little to disguise their contempt for Dana Carvey's The Master of Disguise. Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News: "The film contains no good jokes, no good scenes, barely a moment when Carvey's Saturday Night Live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment." Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times: "It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. It still feels like a prison stretch." Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Cruelly and brutally unfunny." Noting that the movie last 65 minutes and is followed by 15 minutes of credits, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comments: "The movie is like a party guest who thinks he is funny and is wrong. The end credits are like the same guest taking too long to leave."