Nathan Rabin gives The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, directed by Don Scardino, a lukewarm review on the grounds that its attempted emotional connection with the audience comes off as "pandering" and utilizes "practiced schmatlz ." He criticizes the plot of the movie for featuring dated and rehashed content and devices and the humor in the script for being full of cheap shots: "was anyone really dying to see someone take Vegas-style magicians down a peg?"
Rabin doesn't speak much to the performances of the actors in the film, except for a brief jibe at Jim Carrey's facial hair and some even briefer praise of Steve Carrel's ability to bring out the humor in his role. Plot summary in this review is minimal. Rabin explains that the story revolves around the development of a magician's professional career, from his start as a child with a magic kit to his life in the Las Vegas professional magic circuit.
This is a very negative review, Rabin seems to have nothing good to say about this movie and yet awarded it a C+ on the scale with which the A.V. Club rates the movies it reviews.
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