Huge disappointment after the surprisingly witty original. Here, the film seems completely disinterested in its characters, so ripe with nuance and subversion, and is instead content simply to gross out its audience with a parade of low brow humour, casual mysogyny and unimaginative action. Not even the addition of an enthusiastic Jim Carrey – in […] Read more »
I caught this on a flight and really that’s the perfect place to see this utterly inconsequential yet mildly diverting comedy. Steve Carell is on autopilot most of the time here, while Steve Buscemi’s involvement in a comedy is both baffling and rather unsuccessful. Jim Carrey does far better here than he did in Kick-Ass […] Read more »
Burt Wonderstone and his sidekick, Anton Marvelton (played by Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi) are old-school magicians enjoying the last days of the stardom as the world of magic starts to change, with the rise of edgier performers like Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), who embody a rougher, less showy kind of stage craft. Soon Wonderstone […] Read more »