The Mitchell And Webb Look - Their Film ‘Magicians’

You know when you have that nasty, wiggly feeling of ‘I’ve SEEN them before? Where?’ - well, I figured it out.

Forgive a little reposting from an earlier blog entry called ‘Skeptical Movies? Three You Might Have Missed‘ - and hope you check it out!

If you have enjoyed either of these two short comedy sketches on The Mitchell and Webb Look:

Then check out the following movie too.

Magicians (2007) - Directed by Andrew O’Connor. With Robert Webb, David Mitchell, Sarah Hadland.

You’ve been offered a job as a cold-reader on a psychic chat line. Something you consider phony, manipulative and fake. It’s tough after you’ve killed your magician’s assistant wife with a guillotine, just after you caught her screwing your partner in the ’sawing the woman in half’ box.

Six years later - there’s a chance to reunite with your partner for a magic competition and get back your reputation. Which might have worked if he wasn’t so terrified that you were going to kill him in revenge for the adultery-thing… and the fact that you haven’t worked out the issues with the adultery-thing. Or the death. Or everyone’s fascination that you murdered your wife on stage.

There’s a lot to deal with. Not helped by the fact that your new magic assistant isn’t aware of all of this… yet…

Magicians is British black-comedy with lots of magic tricks, plenty of nods at the artiface, manipulation and commercialisation (’What would Courtney Cox think?’) in the magic world, swearing, sex and a lot of English angst. And who’s for the chop next?

I’ve put up a segment of this film on my blog before, regarding acting as a psychic on stage - worth checking out again:

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