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‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ is, at best, a tolerable though unfunny diversion

14 March 2013 9:01 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Written by Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley

Directed by Don Scardino

USA, 2013

A high concept comedy of the kind Will Ferrell has most been associated with in the last decade, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone assembles an appealing cast for its familiar story and character beats, here applied to the world of stage and television musicians. It opens with an extended flashback in which two bullied children form a bond over a love of magic. Thirty years later, those same males – stage names Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) – have a long-running stage show based around their “magical friendship”, albeit one now stale and passionless after spending over a decade performing the same routines.

Pampered and misogynistic, the once sweet Burt has become an arrogant, ridiculous man-child, not seeing the threat the increasing popularity of a street performer/extreme TV star Steve Gray (Jim Carrey) poses. »

- Josh Slater-Williams

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