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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

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Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and his partner, Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi), have reigned as kings of the Las Vegas strip for years. Their work rakes in millions of dollars, but the biggest illusion yet is their friendship, for -- now -- time and familiarity have bred contempt between them. When a street magician's increasing popularity threatens to knock them off their thrones, Burt and Anton recognize that they have to repair the relationship and salvage the act.
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone serves up some goofy laughs, but given its outrageous conceit, it's surprisingly safe and predictable.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh metro.co.uk With its silly, glittery costumes and warring stars, this basically does for magic what Blades Of Glory did for ice skating. Rated: 3/5 Sep 5, 2017 Full Review Wesley Morris Grantland Since every funny moment here involves cynicism, arrogance, heartlessness, and self-destruction, you never believe the movie when it's telling you how nice and contrite these characters are. Jan 6, 2014 Full Review Kate Muir Times (UK) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone makes the classic mistake of thinking a comedy about magicians will be magical. Rated: 2/5 Mar 20, 2013 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews What's incredible is how bad a film it is with such a talented cast. Rated: C- May 7, 2022 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins More humorous than any of the actual events in the film is the appearance of Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, and Jim Carrey together onscreen in outlandish costumes. Rated: 5/10 Dec 3, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Entertaining and consistently funny shouldn't feel so disappointing. Rated: 2.5/4.0 Sep 12, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Joshua J One of Steve Carell funniest performance ever and not only it funny But surprisingly little emotional from a kid who get bullied from school to a famous magicians ,who only want to be loved but when The fame gets into his head he started to be an arrogance and selfish and start treating his best friend poorly but when he realise that magic is really all about, he changes for the better……really a good movie to watch AND another thing I did not expect Jim Carrey to be in his movie and plays a good antagonist overall, a good movie Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/24 Full Review Emilliano Jr S Superb cast but horrible execution. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/29/23 Full Review M R This movie was too quirky for Jim Carrey and too off the wall for Steve Carell. I believe because it's not one of the greatest comedies ever made is the only reason it failed. People look at it very dismissively and I don't understand why. I enjoy the parodying of Criss Angel and believe it to be quite accurate. The David Blaine cameo was spot on. Steve's character is very well written and Olivia Wilde is lovely on all levels. On top of that you got James Gandolfini, Steve Buscemi and Alan Arkin rounding out a fantastic cast. The movie is brilliant at times but very formulaic which is its only fault and the fact that it casted two of the greatest Comedy performers in history whose last team up was the all time classic "Bruce Almighty". There was too much to live up to. If you could look at the film as if the leads are Steve Zahn and Jason Biggs instead then it ain't bad at all. Not even in the least. Grade: 79/100 C+ Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/20/23 Full Review Gareth v Has it's moments, but not many of them. A strong cast are wasted in this plodding comedy. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review StephenPaul C LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 40 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/04/23 Full Review Walker V I really enjoyed this movie and have seen it multiple times. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/06/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and his partner, Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi), have reigned as kings of the Las Vegas strip for years. Their work rakes in millions of dollars, but the biggest illusion yet is their friendship, for -- now -- time and familiarity have bred contempt between them. When a street magician's increasing popularity threatens to knock them off their thrones, Burt and Anton recognize that they have to repair the relationship and salvage the act.
Director
Don Scardino
Producer
Chris Bender, Steve Carell, Jake Weiner, Tyler Mitchell
Screenwriter
Jonathan M. Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Benderspink, Carousel
Rating
PG-13 (Dangerous Stunts|A Drug-Related Incident|Language|Sexual Content)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 15, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 25, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$22.5M
Runtime
1h 40m
Sound Mix
Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital
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