Price$29.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedMar 18, 2007
Magic Italian Style: Volume 2
Aldo Colombini
(Based on 1 review)
Mamma-Mia! Thatsa Spicy Magic!
The master of Mamma-Mia magic, Aldo Colombini serves up a second heaping helping of top-notch magic for beginners, professionals and everyone in between.
Highlighting this broadcast quality DVD is a complete performance and explanation of Aldo's Mamma-Mia Card routine!
SEE & LEARN:
MAMMA-MIA CARD ROUTINE - Aldo's card act that he regularly features in his performances at the world famous Magic Castle!
AN ITALIAN IN LAS VEGAS - A slick card effect wherein two cards assist in finding the spectator's selection.
OUT OF THIS BOAT - Aldo's version of Out Of This World. A spectator separates every card in the deck. Very clean - no switches.
IN-VISIBLE COINS - Coins vanish and reappear in this easy effect.
LEAPING LIRE - A very clever coins across routine!
LAGUNA SHUTTLE - A totally blank deck...a thought-of card - and the card magically prints!
THE BRAT PACK - A wonderful new effect combining the ideas of Paul Harris and Larry Jennings.
ITALIAN SERENADE - A multi-phase card routine that is within easy reach of the average cardman. Super audience reactions!
JACK-ED EDGE - Simply a great, great card effect!
THE A.C. CONTROL - Aldo's easy and effective method for controlling a card to the top of the deck.
Running Time Approximately 1hr 36min
Reviews
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Those of you who watched and enjoyed Magic Italian Style, Volume 1 will be happy to hear that Volume 2 offers more of the same quick, powerful, often sleight-free magic. The DVD (a video in its previous life) opens with a playful Aldo performing his "Mamma Mia Card Act," featuring a variety of strong effects (any of which could be performed independently), including a surprising location of a spectator's selection, a flourishy four-King production, a clever Spectator-Cuts-To-The-Aces, a brisk Out-Of-This-World sequence, and more, all from a simple (secret) twelve-card set-up that begins on top and gets recycled into the deck as the routine progresses. There's so much magic in this one routine (which contains sleights and subtleties by Carlos Vaquera, Ron Ferris, Ray Mertz, Tom Craven, Stephen Tucker, Fred Braue, and of course Aldo himself), it could easily have been released as a separate DVD. Fortunately, this either did not occur to Aldo, or did not interest him, a lapse (or gesture) which benefits us all.
Other tricks on this DVD that stand out for me are "Jack-Ed Edge," a unique (and impromptu) transposition effect involving an indifferent card that's "sealed" in a card case and a selection that's been buried in the middle of the deck; a magical Jazz-Aces-type sequence which opens "Italian Serenade;" and "In-Visible Coins," an impromptu vanish and reappearance of two coins that I suspect looks quite pretty when viewed from straight on and a few feet away, instead of from the right and six inches away, as the director chose to shoot it.
The remaining tricks, while not bad, struck me as a mixed bag, some of which (e.g., "Leaping Lire" and "The Brat Pack") were further diminished by poor direction and/or camera angles. But again, there is so much good magic in the "Mamma Mia Card Act" that the rest of the DVD feels like a bonus anyway. Fans of Aldo and his creative approach will find lots to play with here.
David Acer
Other tricks on this DVD that stand out for me are "Jack-Ed Edge," a unique (and impromptu) transposition effect involving an indifferent card that's "sealed" in a card case and a selection that's been buried in the middle of the deck; a magical Jazz-Aces-type sequence which opens "Italian Serenade;" and "In-Visible Coins," an impromptu vanish and reappearance of two coins that I suspect looks quite pretty when viewed from straight on and a few feet away, instead of from the right and six inches away, as the director chose to shoot it.
The remaining tricks, while not bad, struck me as a mixed bag, some of which (e.g., "Leaping Lire" and "The Brat Pack") were further diminished by poor direction and/or camera angles. But again, there is so much good magic in the "Mamma Mia Card Act" that the rest of the DVD feels like a bonus anyway. Fans of Aldo and his creative approach will find lots to play with here.
David Acer