Escape to the Movies: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

[MovieBob]

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Steve Carell and Jim Carrey take magic to another level.

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[jFr[e]ak93]

I was really hoping for a review of Spring Breakers... there is a huge divide on that one... but, I'll live with this one and hope for Breakers next week.

This movie looks terrible. Plus, Jim Carey seems to have lost whatever he once had. Pass.

Also, first. Yes, I just went there

 

[Ickabod]

I don't know Bob, I have a bad feeling about Pacific Rim. Then again it does have Glados so their hearts are in the right place.

 

[daibakuha]

I don't know Bob, I have a bad feeling about Pacific Rim. Then again it does have Glados so their hearts are in the right place.

The buzz around it is overwhelmingly positive. The film test screened so well it's already been green-lit for a sequel.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Olivia Wilde = Natural born movie star?
What?

If that was supposed to be sarcasm it was way to subtle.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I certainly agree with the bit in the credits. Pacific Rim looks so cool, I can't wait to see that.

 

[Blunderboy]

Sounds like you'd be better off watching Magicians.

 

[Torus2112]

I just have to mention the quick Kids in the Hall reference there, that was spectacular.

Here's that sketch, I haven't seen it in years but I recognized that one shot from it instantly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17rrnRRHDM

Cool of the Nerdist to be putting these out, BTW.

 

[Blunderboy]

I just have to mention the quick Kids in the Hall reference there, that was spectacular.

Here's that sketch, I haven't seen it in years but I recognized that one shot from it instantly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17rrnRRHDM

Cool of the Nerdist to be putting these out, BTW.

OFF TOPIC - But that has to be one of the least funny things I've watched.
Maybe it's an American thing.

 

[Ickabod]

I don't know Bob, I have a bad feeling about Pacific Rim. Then again it does have Glados so their hearts are in the right place.

The buzz around it is overwhelmingly positive. The film test screened so well it's already been green-lit for a sequel.

I'm just saying movies about giant anythings hardly ever go well. But I'll be there to see it, comes out on my birthday actually.

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

Sounds like you'd be better off watching Magicians.

I was about to recommend that film myself. Pretty much everything written by Armstrong and Miller is solid black comedy gold.

 

[Falseprophet]

"Having served her purpose as a reward--"

I see what you did there. Brilliant, sir, brilliant.

 

[scw55]

Sounds like you'd be better off watching Magicians.

I was about to recommend that film myself. Pretty much everything written by Armstrong and Miller is solid black comedy gold.

You either mistook their identity. Or you're an evil troll

It's nice that MB endorses other forms of entertainment.
Derren Brown is a good magician to watch. His first half of his shows are a little dull if you've seen all his TV stuff, but his second half is fascinating.

 

[Jman1236]

Couldn't agree with more about pacific rim bob, the only question now is if it's a success who will make the live-action evengellion adaption first? Will japan beat hollywood to the punch or will pacific rim push hollywood to make it first.

 

[daxterx2005]

I personally can't wait to see spring breakers.
Defranco looks hilarious.

 

[Darth_Payn]

So this movie is not as funny as the ads and late night talk show appearances by the actors made it out to be? Now that's an illusion.
But I love that still you got of Ned Flanders seen through the eyes of Homer on psychoactive chili peppers. Love that episode!

This is the first I have heard of Spring Breakers

First time for me too. Gotta look that up now.

captcha: It is different
That's what audiences will think of the Incredible Burt Wonderstone when they see it after the ads told them to.

 

[teamcharlie]

Spring Breakers: I'd say it's neither a masterpiece nor a disaster. The cinematography is generally pretty decent and the filmmakers definitely have a strong sense of what a 'crazy party' really looks like, but the film doesn't seem to understand who it's trying to market the film to or what it's trying to say (though it's definitely trying to say something or other).

Presumably it's telling us in the classical style of a morality play that drugs, pre-marital sex, crime and being a poor student are bad things, but as a movie that wavers unevenly between realism and a cartoonish caricature of college life it shows shockingly few actual consequences to anything the bevy of lovely but...ahem, 'academically challenged' ladies do (of whom it is abundantly clear that three out of four of the female leads have no-nudity clauses in their contracts). In a sea of decontextualized nudity and partying it seems to want to throw up the horns and give us a "Grrrrl power!" rallying cry that simply doesn't fit the tone of the movie. A schizophrenic film, and unfortunately not always intentionally so.

It's not a bad movie by any means, but it seems completely oblivious to the fact that it's not a good movie either.

Minor comedy tip: having James Franco be a white gangster with dreads who thinks he's a badass and dresses like Weird Al is funny. Actually naming him Al ruins the joke.