If the movie, which opens nationally today, has loads of nerve, its ambitious fusion of cartoons and live-action comedy is only fitfully amusing.

Because live-action comedies for kids haven't achieved what feature-length cartoons like "Shrek" have, we want "Disguise" to succeed.

For Orion Pictures' 1986 live-action western comedy, ¡Three Amigos!

The film gets more laughs out of 74 minutes than many recent live-action comedies with much more time.

Four of the five live-action comedies on Fox's schedule drew anemic ratings and Fox's patience ran out quickly.

The film is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever.

Home Alone was the top grossing film of 1990, and remains the most successful live-action comedy of all time.

She played Wilma Flintstone in the 1994 live-action comedy The Flintstones.

"The King of Queens," the longest-running live-action comedy currently on television, is the opposite of an acquired taste.

Meanwhile, Fox is trying to find the answer to one of the network's most vexing and so far intractable problems: how to find a successful live-action comedy.