{“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone:” Critics see no magic in Steve Carell, Jim Carrey comedy|Times: “‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” can’t transcend the fundamental problem built into movies and television shows about magic|While there were a few exceptions, like Richard Roeper and Variety’s Joe Leydon, most reviewers aren’t in awe of this magic show: Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal: “Did the producers appeal to a denominator even lower than common by making their film as dumb as possible, or did it just turn out that way?” Claudia Puig, USA Today: “Almost as mystifying as what went on in the secret papal conclave this week is why it took a half-dozen credited writers to fashion the forgettable, formulaic and nearly laugh-free script that is ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.'” Andrew O’Heir, Salon: “This is a really lively, fun and high-spirited comedy|Other co-stars include Olivia Wilde as an assistant, James Gandolfini as a grimy casino owner and Alan Arkin as a veteran magician living in a nursing home|The critics aren’t buying this act|Stay a full hour, though, and you’re stuck in a death spiral of unfunniness.” Ty Burr, Boston Globe: “‘Burt Wonderstone’ is a lazy, underwritten imitation Will Ferrell movie.” Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: “Calling it “The Mildly Diverting Burt Wonderstone” would have been more accurate, but how many tickets is that going to sell?”

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