 Hey everybody! Welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Full Monty from Leem Montier and Big Blind Media. All right, so what is the Full Monty? It's basically a Monty Effect. Now, it's not a three card Monty, it's actually a four card Monty. And if you don't know what Monty is, it's followed the ace, followed the queen. It's that gambling routine where you're expected to try to find the one in different card. Leem has put together a really cool interpretation of this trick. And if you'd like to see the trailer, this is it. So have you girls ever played or seen the old three card Monty? Like find the lady or chase the ace? Have you ever seen anything like that? No. No? It's like an old street hustle where some guy would have two jokers and a queen and they mix them up and you have to try and find the queen and you bet money on it. You never sort of thing. It's the sort of thing like people know about but I've never met anyone who's actually had a go because they know it's a scan basically. So what I've decided to do is I try to invent a version that seems so fair that you'd want a bit on it. And it's not a very original idea. All I've done is sort of marked the card that I was going to use. So the idea of this is that you would keep your eye on the queen. In this case, it's the queen of spades. And that would be the card that you'd point out and win all the money. And there's not going to be actual money. This does seem a bit unfair, like a bit easy compared to the other ones. And then the jokers would be the losing card. So if you found the queen, you'd win. And if you found one of the jokers, then you'd lose. But because it's a 1-in-4 chance and the cards are marked on the back, hypothetically, would you guys be willing to bet on that sort of situation? Yeah, hypothetically. No money's changing hands, don't worry. The other thing is I could make it even fairer as it's you guys and I know you guys. I'll get rid of one of the jokers. So instead of a 1-in-4 chance, it's just a 1-in-3 chance. So you're really in there. So what card would you bet on? You guys would bet on the queen card, right? Yeah. Yeah? Okay. Well that's when I'd have to change it from a game that you can't lose into a game that you can't win. And I'd do that by just clicking my fingers and asking which of the queen cards you'd like to bet on, right? But of course, it doesn't matter which queen you bet on. It's a scam because you wouldn't find a queen. You wouldn't find even a joker because this is a totally different trick that just uses the four. And that is the full monster. All right. So that was Liam Montier. If you don't remember who he is, I've done a lot of reviews for him and Big Blind Media in the past and I'll put those links in the description below. All right. So a couple of questions that we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get a cardboard sleeve. You're going to get the DVD and then you're going to get the necessary gaff cards to do the trick. You won't need to add any of your own cards to this. It's completely self-contained. All you'll need is a little card wallet maybe or something to keep them all together and to have them ready to go in your jacket pocket. Is it what I thought? You know, originally seeing the trailer, it did kind of remind me a lot of Gary Freese NFW just because it follows that same plot where four identical cards turn into another set of four identical cards. So it does kind of borrow, I think, a little bit from that plot. However, the secret to this trick is original and I was pleasantly surprised. How are the angles on this? There are some angle issues and I'll say something that would be pretty obvious. I think your angles will disappear the more skilled you get at performing this trick. In other words, you're going to have to pull off your slides and be wary of your angles during the presentation and it's just going to come from your knowledge of the trick and your remembrance of the routine that's going to make those angles vanish. Okay? So I would think that a less skilled magician, a less skilled card magician will have some issues with angles, but I think the more you practice this, the better you get at this, the more familiar you are with this plot, your angles will disappear. Can it be inspected? That is the best part of this trick. I mentioned NFW earlier in the trick and here's the thing. NFW cannot be inspected. You sweep the cards away and you say, ta-da, that's the end of the trick. With Liam's trick, you basically flop the four new cards down on the table and just step back, spectators can examine everything and best of all, there's no switching. All right. So what's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? This is going to be shot just like any other big blind media DVD involving Liam Montier. The sets look identical. His two model spectators have been used in some of his previous DVDs. In fact, I think he's even wearing the same shirt. So it's everything you'd expect from big blind media. There's another aspect of this DVD that I think is worth mentioning and we'll just chalk this up to teaching. There's some really great vignettes on this that allow you to learn the trick depending on your skill level. So if you have no skill level going into this, there is a version where you watch this. Liam walks you through each one of the slides. There's also an experienced magician's explanation where Liam just basically says, and now you do this move and he doesn't teach it to you. So it makes it go a little faster. There's also a review explanation on this where Liam basically understands that you understand the effect. And it's a great tool to go back and review. Let's say you've been doing this trick for a while and then you put it into a box and you, you know, forget about it for a couple months or for a holiday or for a season. And then you go back and say, you know what, I really want to pick that up again, but I don't remember how it went. You can watch the review video portion of this. And it's basically a quick reminder. It's a quick tutorial about how this trick went. You don't have to sit through the, you know, the teaching and an explanation all over again to get the gist of it. So that is really cool. All right. So is it well made? The cards you get are all bicycle stock and will last you a lifetime if you take care of them. How much practice does it require? This is a trick that involves some serious lights. I will say that. I'll say that it's marketed towards beginners because there is a section where he teaches you all the slides, but I'm also going to say it's probably going to work better for you if you're already an intermediate level skilled magician, or if you already have some knowledge of card handling. There are some knuckle busters and I would say that this is going to take some practice and some getting used to. How much setup and reset is there? One of the great things about this teaching DVD is that he actually has a section where he teaches you how to do the reset. That is so nice and so refreshing. I think a lot of times magicians on DVDs, they fly right past that. They don't mention it at all. Or they say, oh, reset's easy. You just have to do this or this or this. But Liam actually takes the time to teach you the reset for this. And I think that's a wonderful addition. All right. So what are the positives to the full Monty? You know, like I've been saying, you're going to get all your cards included. You don't have to add any cards or a record deck to do this package trick. It's got a really simple reset and you end clean. You end clean in a Monty routine. That is so awesome and so just refreshing to see that you can end clean. And the beautiful transition of four alike cards, transforming into four different cards, plus the familiarity that your spectators are already going to have behind the plot, you know, the Monty routine. I think it's such a familiar plot. So I really think this is a winner. Is it worth your money? It's $25. $25 for a 20 minute DVD. You're going to get all of your gaffes and cards that you will need. And it's all going to come perfectly ready to go for you. I think $25 is well within the range of the amount of teaching and the cards that you're getting that are included. And the impact of this trick is going to make. I think you are well in the pocket. You head on down to Big Blind Media and pick this up if it sounds like a winner for you. Who would like this? Anybody who does Monty routines already? Anybody who's been doing NFW but is looking for something to upgrade and maybe, you know, have a big reveal at the end where the spectators get to handle the cards? I think this would be the upgrade to that. Anybody that just loves doing a walk around and thinks that this kind of magic would be appealing to them, I think she'd definitely pick up the Full Monty from Liam Moncier and Big Blind Media. All right. So that is my review for the Full Monty. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can head on down to BigBlindMedia.com. And we want to thank Big Blind Media for providing this review copy for us so that we can review it for you.