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The Effect

This is a DVD in german language. It is (as far as I know) the only DVD teaching magic buyable on Amazon.de.
It's a tutorial DVD which ment to be an easy introduction to magic. It covers card tricks and tricks with everyday objects.

Cost
19,90 EUR

Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
1-3

Review
The production of the DVD is good, expecially the explanation shots. The menu is as detailed as possible.
The content is some basic (normal !) card handling (only one wrong shuffle (hindu) is teached), some flourishes (card fan, coin roll), seven card tricks and seven tricks with everyday objects.
The performance of Cris Labim is simply terrible. He has almost no storys to the tricks. If he has, they are simply bad. Normally he only say (in german) look, it's very hard to do but I'll try to...
Even as a beginner you probably find the tricks teached not interesting. I bought this as a beginner and was preferring the stuff I learned from RRTCM by miles. For shure the beginer shouldn't try to copy the awkward and uninspired presentation of the tricks.

Overall
Beginner: 1.5/5
Intermediate: 0/5

Danke!