what might have been an entertaining, silly comedy opts for pseudo-earnestness over movie magic. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone just goes through the motions and conjures up cliches
what makes the minor-league dumbness of "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" so disappointing is that the film has at least some of the ingredients of a shrewd American satire
there's no question that you will laugh at times throughout "Burt Wonderstone." But if you are looking for something truly magical, you will come away disappointed
the movie is pleasant. It's reasonably funny. But the one who gets the real laughs here, the hard laughs, is Carrey, who plays the kind of role he should be playing - a complete lunatic
it's part comedy, part drama, part romance, part bromance, part comeuppance, part redemption, part nostalgia trip, part social critique, partly sweet, partly gross . . . and a whole lot of nothing that really clicks
but it's Jim Carrey's transformation into a wild-eyed reality-show shaman that provides The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with its only true "how'd he do that?" trick
as the end credits roll, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" finally rises to comic inspiration when the secret behind the hero's climactic Disappearing Audience Trick is revealed
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