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Well made programme with great magic effects.... Watch for yourself and make your own judgement, without expecting too much. It's Fun to watch with a nice cast amd group who are clearly skilled in their field. It's gets better as it progresses and great ending of a prank!

Not sure why I have to write six hundred characters when I have summed up my review pretty well and written as much as I want to write and this show. Look forward to another season hopefully they can come to the UK. Ummm what else can I say, well I hope Arsenal dont win the league and Tottenham get fourth place in the English premier league!

As a person who really loved Magic for Humans and who has met Justin Willman, this show is really weak. A few of the people in the show are a friend of mine and was excited when I saw the teaser for the show back in November. I have watched the show and it's very funny it keeps you on the edge of your seat I want the final prank is going to be but fails. The magic I do believe is real and I believe the reactions are real. But this is a reality show so you can't trust everything, as I think through the magic of editing the magic seems realer than probably what it is in person and I think the reactions are built for TV. Justin, Kyle, and Blake, a really really good magicians who have Creative Minds so their heart and their tricks are in the show but it fails to get the point across.

The score for this is incredibly low. I loved watching this and hope we get another season. I absorb a lot of content and forget about it almost immediately, but this show lives in my head rent free still after watching it over a year ago. A lot of fantastic pranks and magic tricks. It's also really funny. It's a crime we don't have another season at least announced. I was disappointed seeing Justin is on some baking show now. I'm sure it's a good show, but his talents are wasted there. Hopefully his special on Netflix reignites interest in the prank show. Do yourself a favor and give it a watch.

For a magic show there is very little magic in the show and most of it is also accomplished or aided by the magic of editing. They show something happening from one angle, switch angle and show something else but in reality those two things didnt happen back to back. Big part was left in cuttingroom floor. This is kinda sad since Willman has skills to do magic properly...

The whole structure of the show is very boring. Spectator doesnt care or want to watch 25min backstory and motivation in order to see the end result. This whole serie could have been edited down to one single hour long episode without missing anything.

I actually liked that this not only has incredible pranks but also engaging people and storylines where you care about the characters involved. Thats what separates it from other basic magic shows, which bore me. Justin uses comical superpowers to help the underdogs. Also, pranks and jokes are my husband's "love language." This showed us both that a lot of brainstorming, strategy, theatrical thinking and experimentation can develop spectacular trickery. We won't be trying anything Justin and team did, but the show inspired us. I'm pretty sure my husband has a few payback ideas now for his older brother's pranks.

Not only are the pranks completely stupid and unbelievable but the people being pranked aren't even good enough actors to act like they are even believing or being tricked by the pranks. It's painfully bad. The "magicians" simply use video effects. The pranks aren't believable at all therefore ruining the whole premise of it being a prank show. These people are supposed to be experts, but it's painfully bad how lacking they are in creativity. How is there a whole team put together just to put together such terrible pranks? What even is this show? Such a waste of money as this is very clearly an expensive show to produce be here they rent our whole venues to do the pranks.

We watched it as a family and everyone enjoyed the show. There's technically some gore, but it was obviously fake so my kids didn't even notice. It was fun all around and the show does a good job of sprinkling in magic tricks throughout the show.

I don't know what's up with the bad reviews. I think they are just wrong. As an amateur magician myself, the magic/pranks seemed plausible. I'm guessing they use real magic to fool/prank people. Maybe they re-film some of the magic so it is better for TV. But that's very common anyway. Seems like the nay-sayers are making arbitrary rules and then criticizing this show for not following them even though every other show breaks those rules.

Ignore the haters. Watch it and have a good time.

My wife and I have been going through this show and have been very surprised by how much we're enjoying it!

The cast is full of great characters, the magic is...magical, and the pranks are pretty incredible.

I read that some people feel like this is all fake, and the show doesn't come off like that at all. This is the magician that convinced the guy he was invisible and that prank was replicated by people all over the internet because it works.

There are moments where they use hired actors to pull off some of the pranks and those people for sure come off as acting. But the responses from the people they're pranking feel very genuine. Mostly they're shocked and in disbelief not really knowing what in the world to say because what's happening to them is ridiculous.

So if you like the idea of elaborate pranks pulled off like a heist with some great characters to follow and genuinely funny bits....the refrigerator is one of my favorites...then you'll have a great time with the show!

I will never understand why it is legal to sell this type of media.

If it is so heavily scripted, then why pretend its real in the first place?

Cause otherwise people would not be interested in the slightest.

I think shows that try to sell themselves as "unscripted" should be regulated.

Otherwise they manipulate its viewers in to thinking the show is real.

If they where just honest, and made it clear it was all just "a show", then they have to compete against real TV shows, with far more money, far better writing, and far better actors.

Obviously they don't do that, cause they would be irrelevant.

I'm really impressed by how much fake this show is. They can't do even simple tricks without video editing.

There is one place where card disappears and wrist watch appears - I stopped the exact frame to see if it is fake or he's actually really quick with the hands.

You know, at least he can do that.

And... guess what? It was fake.

Guys, seriously, this trick should be easy for any actual magician without wonders of special effects.

The worst episode was the last one with hypnosis. Not a spoiler, they say it in the first minute. The episode was filled with such a bad acting, lame screenwriting and it was unbelievable how they expected us to believe that everything they show us is legitimate.

Personally felt insulted.

It was the cringiest thing I have watched in years and I watch at least one reality show per week. I give The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman two stars instead of one, because few times it made laugh with stupid jokes. I love those.

Let me start to say im the target audiance for this i love magic ever since im little i love magic shows and tv shows on magic and i really love pranks

so how on earth did i not love this show ?

From the first "magic" that they do you could spot that the siblings are in om this and their "surprised" acting is terrible.

No camera and TV crew would waste days of shooting days of hiring directors, makeup artists locations, all of that dozens of peoples work if there is a chance that the "pranked" person wouldnt agree to publish him getting scared.

They had to be part of this or the production couldnt actually do it.

As i assume some people would said they dont want to be on the show as the pranked.

And production wouldnt take the risk.

You could clearly see by their horrible acting of the first people the fake drama.

And it only gets worse from there.

They show and talk on magic as if its 1990 and people still are golable or dont know how things are made.

They could have addressed it so much better as there is a ton of wasted potential.

They could have shown them building the "magic tricks" testing them out a bit like "myth busters" and explain how they want it to work

they could have give more time to planing the retrebution pranks.

And skip the fake spoof.

Just do it as the profuction comes to the brother and sister and tells them we are going todo prank on yoi you just dont know when and how.

I closed it at episode 1.5 and its too bad as im the target audiance for this.

Its 2024 we don't need that horrible editing and commentary style anymore. People have thankfully moved on. The viewer is not a fish brained dumbass. Horrible Acting. Unsuccessfully trying to be funny. Is this supposed to be for toddlers? The average fake youtube prank would give you a better prank experience. Horrible Pacing. Had me pissed off enough to create an imdb account in order to leave this review. I don't even like writing reviews. What a waste of resources. Barely any magic, barely any pranks. Just a bunch of people trying to be funny. Name it the Magic Garbage Show. I cannot overstate how bad it is. Save yourself the time.

Others are already sounding the alarm: this "Reality" prank show is fake, and boy does it show.

Because of IMDB's character requirements, which are not needed for such an appallingly bad attempt at trying to trick its audience, I will snag another comments to meet the requirement.

There's nothing worse than a fake prank show!

Hammelbarry The show is obviously fake, which makes this unwatchable. Multiple camera angles, yet there is no camera in sight!!! Lol!!! The acting is horrible. They are clearly trying make a knockoff of the Carbanara Effect, which is also fake, but at least Michael is likeable and funny.

The host Justin is a terrible actor which makes the setups even less believable. They spend all of this time in the development of the pranks which makes the show even less fun. I wouldn't say I'm 100 percent sure on all the pranks being actors but some of them clearly are.

The payoffs aren't nearly as good as scare tactics. Most of the "Magic" in the title is not implemented in the setups any more than it was in scare tactics. The true "Magic" is how many idiots watch this POS and actually believe that these people aren't in on the "prank."

I was really looking forward to watching the show when I figured out it was really just a ripoff of scare tactics but I can honestly say although I watched the full season hoping it would get better, I'd never watch another one or anything this guy is involved in. I found the whole thing insulting.

As soon as the 1st prank is about to end... I understood that it is just a load of BS... The pranks are too bad... The actors even worse.. There is no fun watching it.. the Jokes n pranks do not land either... N the so called victims of pranks also do not know how to act!

It was a travesty. It got unbearable at one point.

The whole team of Justin feels a bit more talented in creative ideas though.. but those ideas just don't seem to land... Some of the team r just there to be on TV.

It could have been a lot better if the pranks were a bit believable or the acting by the actors spot on.. but turned out to be dud..

The only magical aspect about this show is that it makes your I. Q points disappear. This show was so boring and it takes way too long for the pranks to get started. The, "magician" in this show should be pitied as he is clearly gliding off the coattails of successful magicians like Michael Carbonaro in, "The Carbonaro Effect". If this show had any redeeming qualities about it I would mention them, but there are none to list. The host thinks that he can somehow magically blend the intrigue of "The Carbonaro Effect", with the hilarity of "Punk'd". But what you end up with is a lame magic show with a host that has absolutely no cachet or like ability. All in all I would say that any magic is ridiculous and uninteresting, but this host takes that feeling to a whole new level as his magic seems to be solely intended for viewers that are taken in by cheap parlor tricks with smoke and mirrors. It is tv shows like "The Magic Prank Show" that make you appreciate ones like "The Carbonaro Effect". The only practical joke the host has to offer is fooling his viewers into thinking that this show is actually worth watching when it is categorically not!