The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Carell
Buscemi
Carey
Wilde
Gandolfini
Mohr
Garrett
Arkin

This could either be A. VERY very funny, or B. end up being a horrific flop.

 

I'm gonna go with flop.

 

I can't wait to see it, but I think it will underwhelm at the Box Office.

I wonder what the budget was.

 

Carrey. For Christ's sake.

 

$30 million. Which seems fairly cheap.

 

With that cast, I would say so...

Carell was on the Nerdist podcast this week and said that this was a case of a everybody wanting to work together, especially him, Carrey, Wilde and Gandolfini... I know they always say that, but if they did this for $30 million. They might be being truthful...

 

When was the last time any of these actors was really that funny in a big role? It's been at least five years, right?

 

Carell hasn't been doing the big comedies lately... Despicable Me was hilarious... I didn't really care for Crazy, Stupid Love, but I know it was pretty well-received.

My kids liked the Penguin movie that Carrey made... I thought it was OK... Carrey hasn't worked a ton in the last few years...

The other two aren't really known as comic actors, although Wilde has been in some funny things, like The Change Up, which I liked, but nobody else did...

 

It seems to me like there is almost no chance this movie gets favorable reviews. That's not to say it won't be funny or be a hit, though.

 

They can all work for scale, but take points in the box office and the DVD sales in case it's a runaway hit.

 

I think that's what a lot of the big names do (Clooney,Pitt,Wahlberg, etc). Take a smaller number up front. Get a little bit bigger piece of the box, and a little bit bigger piece of the DVD.

 

Carrey is turning into the white version of Eddie Murphy, though he was never as funny a comdeian as Eddie