The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Rating 2 out of 10
You have a rough sell in a comedy movie about magicians when there is hardly any magic and the movie is just not funny. With the poor reviews and lackluster trailers I went into the mostly empty theater with very low expectations and it still managed to fall far below. In a year where we have seen plenty of duds this movie entrenches itself near the top of Royce's Worst Ten of 2013. I truly hope I don't see ten movies worse than this one.
The movie starts with young Burt (Steve Carell) being beat up by the grade school bullies. Wanting to be liked he turns to magic and befriends his nerdy neighbor Anton (Steve Buscemi). They start working on their magic act. Fast forward years later and they have a world famous act in Las Vegas together. Ten years later the act has gone boring and stale, Burt is a pompous jerk and the friendship has gone. A new street magician (Jim Carrey) that is supposed to be Criss Angel is taking over and Burt and Anton are out.
Some of the problems (there are too many to list) the script seems to have been written in an 8th grade boys locker room. Most of the acting is so overdone it's painful to watch. When Jim Carrey came on screen I swear my eyeballs hurt. It is not funny from start to finish. There was one guy in the back of the theater laughing so hard we were sure someone had a gun to his head forcing him to laugh. I would have had them pull the trigger.
The lone bright spot in this movie was Olivia Wilde. She plays Burt's assistant and aspiring magician who works to bring some humanity to the bunch. The rest of the movie is a complete waste of film stock.
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