"He put a live dog in my pants! No-one's ever done that to me before!
"I should hope not."
Burt Wonderstone is a gently enjoyable film but it is also infuriatingly inconsistent. It fails to generate the full-on belly-laughs of an Anchorman, but the parody elements often sit awkwardly with some quite sincere dramatic moments, the latter often provided by Steve Carell at his strongest and the wonderful Alan Arkin. It is great to see Steve Buscemi having fun, likewise Olivia Wilde and Jim Carrey; all are fine here, but they all feel somewhat underused overall. The 'big trick' pay-off at the end is very nicely done, but with the inconsistent tone by then it is hard to work out quite how much the viewer is meant to like the characters or simply laugh at them.
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