ATTENTION: MOVIE
SPOILERS INCLUDED!!
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
March 16 2013
My opinion:
2.5 out of 5
bags of popcorn for the overall movie
2 out of 5 boxes of milk
duds for my personal entertainment
My suggestion: DVD
The
gist: Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton
are superstar magicians headlining for Bally’s in Las Vegas. They are hugely successful until a rival magician
named Steve Gray begins performing his innovative act drawing away fans. In a last desperate hope to revive their
stale careers, Wonderstone and Marvelton concoct a scheme to show that they can
still entertain. The life-long friends
soon lose everything including their friendship and must try to put it back
together.
My Take:
This movie was like watching one long SNL skit. It was entertaining for a while, but the
problem is that it went from moderately funny, to annoying about half way
through. Steve Carrell played Burt
Wonderstone and he was fine. Steve
Buscemi played Anton Marvelton and he was fine.
The best character of the film was by far Steve Gray played by Jim
Carrey. His character seemed to be loosely
based on Criss Angel (think Mindfreak) and his act was called Brain Rape. He was great, but even he couldn’t salvage
this film. The other notable performance
was given by Alan Arkin who plays Rance Holloway, an elderly magician who
inspired Wonderstone to become a magician.
As usually he was interesting to watch and brings an unspoken humor to
his character.
The whole thing is totally predictable and there were not
enough funny moments to keep me interested in what was going to happen. I really didn’t care if the two became
friends again or revived their act. All
I really cared about was what Jim Carrey’s character was going to perform to
outdo himself in his final performance and even that was a bit stale.
I can see how some viewers might enjoy this film especially
if they like comedies and are Steve Carrell fans. I think the idea for this film could have
been really great, it just couldn’t break through the stupid barrier to get to
the hilariousness I was wanting! It was
funny….in parts….but not enough for an entire film.
