(2006) Magic and mischief from the Click and (mute Clack of prestidigitation, performing underwater - "Where magic has never gone before" - wearing three-piece suits and ties and oxygen masks, in the Caribbean Sea and the Bahaman Islands.

A couple of clean-living guys (they don't smoke or drink, says Penn) who usually work in Las Vegas, they cut lovely Megan in half (though she has to be rescued when her air hose gets separated from her); they tease Raquel, using a psychic dolphin and her grandmother's ring; after a few amazing tricks ("There's no such thing as real magic," Penn reminds us, "just tricks") inside a windowed water tank with a live bird and a fishbowl of fish, Teller enacts the metamorphosis by locking professional mermaid Morgana inside a steel cage, handcuffed to the bars, before removing her air helmet, depriving her of oxygen, and then while standing on top of the cage as a curtain is raised by other divers to briefly hide them from the audience on the other side of the window, changes places with her!

Along with wisecracks, Penn demonstrates how much of the legerdemain was pulled off to fake us fools out. Next still inside the tank, Aaron Carter sings inside an air helmet while girls emerge, timed to the music, out of the thin blue water and a box beside Teller; back in the ocean, the practical jokers in their nifty outfits approach a couple of honeymooners in appropriate wet gear and snip the man's air hose, which Teller miraculously repairs with his hand.

On the beach they ask vacationers - "We're not selling time shares" - to participate in a card trick before debunking the myth (maybe your mother told you this one along with Santa Claus, the tooth faerie, and the Easter Bunny) that you should not go swimming immediately after eating a big meal.

Strapped and buckled into a straitjacket, lifted into a large crate with a tiny camera inside to observe, and then lowered into the sea by crane where hungry sharks circle, Teller somehow gets devoured (sorry, I meant detoured).

Finally (if you don't want to know how it was done, don't watch the credits) they attempt to vanish into a curtain ("never been done before") of air bubbles (1200 cubic feet per minute) a 65-foot, 80-ton submarine with Penn inside as it rests on the ocean bottom, 50 feet below the surface, surrounded 360º by 40 scuba divers with videocameras. It's gone only because "magic happens in your mind."

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