Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: “The movie itself is too cautious and unimaginative to bring off what a great magic trick — or comedy — should do: make us laugh out loud with surprise.”
Stephen Holden, N.Y. Times: “‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” can’t transcend the fundamental problem built into movies and television shows about magic. It isn’t really magic if you’re watching it second hand.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: “Near the end, Burt and Anton attempt to make an audience disappear. “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” should have no trouble with that one.”