MASTER OF DISGUISE

Release Date August 16

Director Perry Andelin Blake

Starring Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito

Genre Comedy

In making his newest comedy, “Master of Disguise,” kooky comic Dana Carvey was on a mission he hoped wouldn’t be impossible.

“I tried to make a PG movie that seemed like a PG-13, but was trickily actually a PG – so my kids would want to see it,” says Carvey, whose two boys are 8 and 10.

“But it’s disappointing to them. PG-13 means cool and PG means baby. We have a hard time getting out of the house for a PG.”

“Master of Disguise” is about a family from Italy who are – duh – masters of disguise. “Their family name is the Disguiseys,” says Carvey, who co-wrote the movie and dons at least a dozen get-ups.

“You’d think it would tip people off, but it doesn’t.”

Finding it’s too dangerous a life, the family moves to America and opens a restaurant. There, Carvey says, his character (Pistachio Disguisey) “is like a freak, who mimics people, disguises himself and puts underwear on his head – for no apparent reason.”

In a PG movie, Carvey says, there are certain things the studios want. “A kid and a dog. You gotta have a dog,” he says. “In ‘Master of Disguise,’ the dog is named The Cuteness.

“He rides a skateboard. With PG, you gotta have a skateboard. And you’ve gotta have a grumpy old man.”