Synopsis
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
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Cast
- Steve CarellBurt Wonderstone
- Steve BuscemiAnton Marvelton
- Olivia WildeJane
- Jim CarreySteve Gray
- James GandolfiniDoug Munny
- Alan ArkinRance Holloway
- Jay MohrRick the Implausible
- Michael HerbigLucius Belvedere
- Mason CookYoung Burt
- Luke VanekYoung Anton
Recommendations
- 67
Tampa Bay Times
The third act of Scardino's movie is very funny, and its finale featuring the exposure of an impossibly successful illusion is flat-out brilliant. It's just too bad that the movie's opening act is so sleight of humor, damaging the movie's potential. Now you see it. Then you don't. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Few jokes take us by surprise, but enough comic haymakers land to make “Burt Wonderstone” credible, in not exactly “incredible.” - 60
Variety
Neatly balancing brightly sentimental comedy with slightly edgier funny business, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone pulls off the impressive trick of generating laughs on a consistent basis while spinning a clever scenario about rival magicians waging a Las Vegas turf war with a wide multi-demographic appeal. - 60
Total Film
Carell and Carrey shine like sequinned suits in a comedy that allows them endless fun with the dressing-up box. More narrative verve and it could’ve been The Prestige in a big-cat wig. - 58
Film.com
Like the back half of its namesake, Wonderstone isn’t terribly hip, edgy or new itself, just amusing enough to pass the time. While Scardino and friends do manage to end the film on an admirably nutty note, this gathering of comedic minds ultimately fails to produce any true movie magic. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Enjoyable but as familiar as the old-school routines its magician heroes dish out. - 50
Village Voice
The film's biggest surprise is that, after Wonderstone loses everything, we're expected to feel something besides impatience as he learns to become a better person—and gapes like a child at the wonder of magic. - 40
Empire
The inconsistencies in tone - is it an Anchorman-style farce or something more serious? - distract from likeable turns from the leads.
