I always have a hard time reviewing comedies. But I'll give it a shot.
As a fan of magic, this movie was already interesting to me from the get go.
It's about Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carrell) and his best friend Anton Marvelston (Steve Buscemi) who are Magicians in Las Vegas. After doing the same tricks for 10 years and after a new magician, Steve Grey (Jim Carrey) has new ... tricks, they split up and get fired. Burt Wonderstone, who was rich and famous is left with no money and has to find a way to get back.
I love Steve Carrel, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey so much. Having all three of them in one movie is awesome. Then we add Olivia Wilde and it gets even better. And then we also have a small appearence by the director of two of the best German comedies ever made, Michael "Bully" Herbig and I'd say for me this is one of the best casts ever assembled (of course I'm exagerating). So that for me was a big plus.
Most of the jokes made me grin, I think I never had a laugh out loud moment, but I had some fun for sure. I loved the whole show of Burt and Anton, I would have gone to see that live.
It first starts off as pretty realistic but once Steve Grey joins the show it goes crazy. He does the "Chris Angel" thing where he is a real street magician and just does crazy stuff. To be honest I didn't like his character who kind of was just there to have a rival for Burt and Anton, he was just the asshole there so you have someone to hate while you grow to love Burt Wonderstone, who starts off as an asshole.
All in all it was an enjoyable movie, not the best comedy ever but also not bad or cringeworthy. If you like any of the actors or if you like magic this is a good movie for you. (Little fact on the side: Chris Angel and David Copperfield were both on set and helped with the magic tricks, because some of them were real magic tricks!)
I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars, give it a watch.
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