When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I never wrote a review but this film is so bad i couldn't stand it.This is one of the worst movies I've seen.A failed attempt of Zoolander.Bad jokes, poor acting, no story.Steve Carrel was a genius in the office but this is Incredible sad.A waste of time, except for some few moments Jim Carrey made me laugh.Olivia is beautiful, a pity seeing her in this horrible film.It is sad to see good actors with so poor script.luckily I did no pay for watching it.I got the feeling the director thinks the audience is stupid.

With Easter coming up,I started searching round for a Comedy which a friend could watch with her family during the holiday season.Searching round on Amazon Uk,I suddenly remembered hearing about a fun-looking Comedy that had surprisingly failed at the box office,which led to me getting ready to meet Burt Wonderstone.The plot:Getting beaten up at school, Burt Wonderstone finds joy in a magic kit that his mum gets him for his birthday.Playing around with his magic tricks,Wonderstone catches the attention of Anton Marvelton,who shares Wonderstone's interest in magic,which leads to Wonderstone & Marvelton soon forming a double act.Decades later:Signed up by Bally's Casino owner Doug Munny to a 10 year contract,Wonderstone & Marvelton slowly find themselves become tired of performing the same old tricks,with Wonderstone also beginning to believe that he is bigger then the team.Standing outside Bally's,Marvelton and Wonderstone are left speechless,when street magician Steve Gray films his latest show outside the building.As Gray's new show airs, the cracks in Wonderstone & Marvelton's act start to appear.View on the film:Whilst the ending fails to sparkle,the screenplay by (deep breath!) Jonathan M. Goldstein/John Francis Daley/Chad Kultgen and Tyler Mitchell keeps the spells flowing,by juggling splashes of physical Comedy with a smooth buddy Comedy charm.For the rivalry between the magicians,the writers smartly give each of them contrasting styles,with Wonderstone's inflated ego making his act largely based on showmanship,whilst Gray takes aim at a grotesque,but mesmerising style of street magic.Wrapped in a pure 80s mullet,Steve Carell gives a wonderful performance as Burt Wonderstone,with Carell superbly showing Wonderstone's joy in magic be pushed away by his ego-driven taste for the ladies,and to also push everyone else out of the limelight.Treated like a human punch bag by Wonderstone, Steve Buscemi gives a great performance as Anton Marvelton,with Buscemi showing Marvelton to be a humble guy,who explodes when Wonderstone finally over steps the mark.Taking on the duo, Jim Carrey gives an explosive performance as Steve Gray,thanks to Carrey jumping straight in to Gray's very physical magic,and also creating an unease over Gray being a less than magical creep,which leads to this film casting a marvellous spell.

I couldn't help but enjoy this movie. Everything was telling me that this was a stupid ridiculous comedy but it was still quite funny. Magicians are a special breed, what they can do can be shocking but when it comes down to it they will always be kinda weird and geeky : )Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi play the "old school" magicians i.e. Siegfried and Roy, and Jim Carrey plays the intense "too cool for school" magician i.e. Criss Angel. Their portrayals may be over the top but they are a completely accurate spoof of them. It was so pathetically funny watching their ego's destroy them.If you normally don't enjoy comedy from Steve Carell and Jim Carrey then you probably won't like this movie. This is classic them in every way. Silly, a little lame and completely over the top but nevertheless still enjoyable.

There have been quirky movies about improbable subjects before and they could be very amusing. "Something About Mary" comes to mind. This is a quirky comedy about two childhood buddies who grow up and become a magic act. They play the big time for ten years, then split up, then come together again for a triumphant ending. It has competent actors, some, like Alan Arkin, positively lovable. But there is no pigeon beneath the handkerchief. Oh, maybe just an egg. Unfertilized.It's often hard to tell why a comedy fails but, to begin at the beginning, the jokes and outrageous situations really aren't very funny. The manager of the show is threatening to let them go because their act is stale, and newcomers like Jim Carrey have shed their blood along with their show-biz costumes and props. A chronicle of the times. If it bleeds, it leads.Having made that point, I'm now beginning to wonder if I made a big mistake. Maybe the movie isn't about magic acts at all, but a subtle critique of America's moral, aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural decline. A celebrity's DUI arrest gets more hits than a Supreme Court decision.Well, never mind that. Steve Carrell has some good moments as an amateur magician grown materialistic and pompous. Before he permits a beautiful groupie to join him in a bed the size of an Olympic swimming pool he has her sign an agreement that she is free of disease, will not sue him, will make no claim on any future pregnancy, and is over eighteen.But when he and his fellow magician, Steve Buscemi, as weird as ever, try to out-do their competition by being hoisted over Las Vegas in a plexiglass cage and holding their water for three days, the plexiglass room falls apart piece by piece. The audience on screen gasps with horror. The audience in the theater nods out. It sounds funny. It SHOULD be funny. But it's not original and not well done. The dialog, which might have looked good on the page, doesn't help much either.Steve Carell hits his marks and says his lines. Buscemi is there to aid him but disappears from the screen for a longish period. Jim Carrey stands out as the evil competitor. Olivia Wilde, as the Magician's Assistant, isn't given much to do but she's so stunningly beautiful in a modelesque way that she gets a pass. The most memorable moment in the movie is when she appears on stage for the first time and I got a glimpse of her sublime figure. Alan Arkin is marvelous as the old professional, now in a home for the aged. He flubs the trick of his final departure but the onlookers are cool with it and pretend they don't notice him scuttling under the hospital bed.