'Burt Wonderstone' - Jim Carrey, Steve Carrell, and Olivia Wilde

[CHEЯNOБLY!]

Originally Posted by Foggy

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_.../?nopopup=true

Pretty mediocre reviews, I'm checking it out tomorrow at a free screening, so you'll get my judgement on it then

Pretty bad reviews. Most professional critics are far too high-brow for slapstick...so comedy fans shouldn't let these reviews deter them from seeing it.

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Originally Posted by CHEЯNOБLY!

Pretty bad reviews. Most professional critics are far too high-brow for slapstick...so comedy fans shouldn't let these reviews deter them from seeing it.

the sad thing is that Dinner For Schmucks was similar in reviews and that movie turned out to be terrible especially with the talent involved (Chris O Dowd, Jemaine Clement, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd) one would think the film would be a comedy success, guess not.

[tommyboy81]

Wondering if this would have gotten better reviews if this was done during the Chris Angel, David Blaine craze.

[Col. Zombie]

This movie was just okay. Definitley nothing to write home about or take up more time writing...

[JavaJulien]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

Wondering if this would have gotten better reviews if this was done during the Chris Angel, David Blaine craze.

Most likely. From the sound of it, it doesn't help that it follows the same pattern that the Will Ferrel movies did during the mid 2000s. For all intents this movie sounds like it was released a decade later than it needed to be.

[vader4]

I thought this was a great comedy and a pretty good movie overall. I like watching and nice positive movie every now and again plus this is probably the funniest comedy I've seen since Ted or Wanderlust.

[esteban²]

My friend who lives in the US for his work one year long isn't a Jim Carrey fan, he want to see it and thought it was one of the funniest movies in years. And I'm reading comments like that everywhere, next to the rotten ones. What's going on with this movie? It's great on one side, terrible on the other.

I didn't like the Will Ferrell movies of the same kind, it this comes close ... damn, I want to see it for myself but Belgium has no release dat yet.

[growler]

I thought it was funny & a good film. Made fun of the "new" breed of street magicians like Criss Angel & David Blaine. Also mocked magicians in general to some extent.

Played on

[Show spoiler]Criss Angel's "Mind Freak."

I liked

[Show spoiler]Burt Wonderstone's apathy towards sex, assistants & the way he treated others. Wonder how far from the truth that is for some superstars who get everything they desire (for a while)

[dukerock12]

The movie had its moments. Would watch again.I had high hopes for this movie seeing as this was one of Jim Carrey's first "stupid" comedy in a while. He delivered but Steve Carrell i feel fell flat. It might just be that I'm used to him as Michael Scott.

[jwerk]

Originally Posted by growler

I thought it was funny & a good film. Made fun of the "new" breed of street magicians like Criss Angel & David Blaine. Also mocked magicians in general to some extent.

I don't think it mocked magicians. If anything, it glorified them a bit, and made them seem much more interesting. It might've mocked the "Steve Gray" type, but not the classic "rabbit out of a hat" magician.

Then again, I didn't think it was a good film like you did, so we can disagree on everything

Originally Posted by dukerock12

The movie had its moments. Would watch again.I had high hopes for this movie seeing as this was one of Jim Carrey's first "stupid" comedy in a while. He delivered but Steve Carrell i feel fell flat. It might just be that I'm used to him as Michael Scott.

Carell was definitely miscast here. He's a great actor, but I don't think he pulled off the egotistic womanizer very well. I wish Jim would've agreed to play Burt like was intended. Then someone like Colin Farrell could've played Gray