Review of Magicians

As someone who is familiar with Mitchell & Webb's work as skit comedians and in their seminal (no pun intended) TV series Peep Show, it was perhaps easier for me to like this film.

The lead characters are really just transferred from Peep Show into a different milieu so if you don't find those characters amusing then you'll probably not enjoy this film.

Comedians have a tough time crossing into film roles, even when they're comic, because they're expected to play to their strengths which usually means more of what they've already become famous for hence Webb showing his usual callous self-centredness and Mitchell as the tightly wrapped perpetually anxious figure. Anything else seems out of place. (Alexei Sayle had the same problem, Robbie Coltrane less so).

If you like M&W you'll like this.