
Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas Strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt's growing ego. But lately the duo's greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they've grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerrilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show is startin... (Full plot summary below)
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Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas Strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt's growing ego. But lately the duo's greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they've grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerrilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show is starting to look stale. But there's still a chance Burt and Anton can save the act - both onstage and off - if only Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place.
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| Film BlatherEugene NovikovEven when this lovably half-baked effort really started to whiff, I couldn't bring myself to be too annoyed. |
| AARP Movies for GrownupsBill NewcottRefreshingly single-minded in its aim to entertain, Wonderstone has no social agenda, no artistic aspirations, no enduring lessons - other than, perhaps, the universality of lifelong friendship. |
| Detroit NewsTom Long"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" isn't incredible, but it's a nicely performed bit of programmed Hollywood hilarity. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumThere is a great deal more than magic and laughs...it also says a hatful of bunnies about audiences and the pervasive, decadent state of entertainment in our society. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAlan Arkin does the best trick, bringing a dollop of humanity to the role of Rance Holloway, the magician who was young Burt's inspiration. Apart from Rance, the whole production is slovenly nonsense, photographed on the cheap with blaring ghastliness. Yet it poses an intriguing mystery. Did the producers appeal to a denominator even lower than common by making their film as dumb as possible, or did it just turn out that way? |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA consistently funny, even oddly sentimental magic show. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyYou can't have a comedy about magic without gimmicks, and "Burt Wonderstone" has plenty. It also has panache. |
| AALBC.comKam WilliamsA battle of competing comedy styles won hands-down by the rambunctious, rubber-faced run-a-muck! |
| New York Magazine/VultureBilge EbiriThe true comeback story in this fictional comeback story doesn't belong to a character named Burt Wonderstone, but to an actor named Jim Carrey. |
| Bloomberg NewsGreg EvansWe're lectured repeatedly about the wonders of well-performed magic, yet director Don Scardino relies on computer-generated trickery. The coup de theatre that puts Burt and Anton back on top is a cheat of literally unbelievable proportions. |