The Incredible Burt Wonderstone / Rated PG-13 for sexual content, a drug related incident and stunts you do not want to try at home.

Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi play boyhood friends who want to perform magic after the first Steve receives a toy magic set featuring Rance Holloway, a great magician pre-80’s (Alan Arkin ) which teaches basic tricks. They grow up to be Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton, end up in Las Vegas at Bally’s headlining a magic show in their very own theater.

After a few years their show starts to get a little stale and they are further set back when street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey playing Jim Carrey) shows up doing incredibly shocking and violent acts to his own person for free in the streets and on his reality TV show.

The team fight with each other and are fired by the casino owner Doug Munny (get it) played by James Gandolfini who points out their audiences have dwindled to a size smaller than their act.

The rest of the film covers their spiral downward and their resurrection with the help of the good old magician Rance H. This, after we follow the first Steve through a series of lesser and lesser degrading jobs calling for a little magic.

Steve the first does an okay job playing the stuck up famous magician but Steve the second is better doing the sidekick who never enjoys the big perks. Jim Carrey playing Steve the third acts like JC in every other movie he has been in. He gets to carve holes in his face to find the playing card picked by the person in his audience and appears to not go “number one” for a couple of weeks to set a world record. Alan Arkin with less screen time dominates the scenes he is allowed to be in overshadowing his younger competition. Olivia Wilde plays a stage hand who is recruited at the last minute to replace their on stage look pretty co star. She is a magician herself and apparently a good actress. We don’t get to see her do much of either.

If you are a magic fan you will find David Copperfield playing himself in a cameo appearance. He also helped stage and create the stunts. As far as I know Jim Carrey as Steve the third is still holding it in.

Rated 2.1 out of 4.0 reasons to Wonderstone where are Penn and Teller when you need them? ALERT You can see this film for $10 per person in the theater. You can wait a couple of months and view it on a Red Box DVD for $1 with as many viewers as you can pack into the front room. You figure it out. It’s not magic.