Magic Tricks

There are some wonderful effects on this dvd - Mr clean coins across, the himber sankey count, the coins through table...astonishing and practical coin magic. So why don't I like it? Two minor reasons, and one major one. First some of the tricks are silly (the first coin production, some nonsense with card boxes and others). Secondly, rather than being the traditional effect/explanation structure, each 'track' is unstructured to the point of sometimes seeming almost random - which is OK in principle, but in practice the sections seem unplanned "what shall I do next...err..try this" with no attempt at quality control or re recording of any less than satisfactory performances. Laziness? Yes. Arrogance - certainly. Which brings me to by far the worst part of this dvd for me - Sankey's irritating, overbearing and deeply unfunny presentation of almost all the effects. Why does he insit on adopting deeply unfunny "funny" accents? Why does he pull all thoste silly faces? Why is his performance so excruciatingly painful to watch, making repeat viewings about as enjoyable as root canal treatment? At one point he is suddenly and quite needlessly blasphemous (I'm an atheist, but even so - why?). He come across on this dvd as a contemptuous, arrogant so and so wrongly convinced of his talents as an off-the-wall comedian (is there one single funny thing in 2 hours plus of his performance?). I should have known - I saw him live once in Blackpool and he was astongishingly rude to a member of the audience for no reason whatsoever, and clearly has learned no more humility since. Buy it if you must, but hey Sankey work on your personality, or at least learn how to control it so you can at least pretend to be decent