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Soderbergh has created a spicy yet lucid, surgingly high-energy yet smartly modernistic musical.
Tatum, whose talents have been the subject of debate, also makes Mike genuinely affecting, not to mention articulate within the bounds of a sketchy script.
Does a better job of mixing Chippendales-style guilty pleasures with reality-based cautionary tales than you might expect.
The dance numbers, choreographed by Allison Faulk, are inventive and athletic, but not really erotic; Soderbergh never lets you forget that, for these men, dancing is above all a job.
Magic Mike has a conventional structure, yet a teasing question percolates beneath: If selling yourself is as much fun as this movie makes it look, what could be wrong with it?
If you're looking for a romance with 100 percent prime beefcake? Get your singles out and ready, ladies. "Magic Mike" is in the house.
Steven Soderbergh has made a movie that works as both intimate character study and party film.
The extras are a little, um, bare, but this transfer of one of the best American films of the year is otherwise superb.
A compelling character study not to be missed, if only to witness a gutsy, career performance delivered by the ever-improving Channing Tatum.
Magic Mike takes a familiar story and transforms it into something modern, unique and beautiful to look at (and I'm not just talking beefcakes, here).
I never imagined that I would see The Full Monty re-envisioned by the Oscar winning director of Erin Brokovich and Traffic. But yup, here you have it: Steven Soderberg has created his stripping opus.
Magic Mike is far from perfect, but that's the fun. Whether you think Soderbergh is winking at the audience or the movie is "so bad it's good," Magic Mike is one heck of a good time at the movies.
It's good to have another Soderbergh movie, and one that's completely different from anything he's done before. But beneath the magic, "Mike" is ultimately meh.
A vanilla panorama of beefcake for rent
Soderbergh lets scenes develop in a raw, natural way that makes the stripping scenes hilariously entertaining to watch
It's "Showgirls" for girls, but with its camp knob tuned to a much more tolerable and skilled frequency... It's pretty awesome
Magic Mike is just fun, and it's fun because it's good.
I was gunning for Showgirls only as Show Boys. Instead director Steven Soderbergh did something normal and classy, which are two words I associate with his other films and did not want to describe this film.
Reigning men on a physical, philosophical and psychological level, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike also completes the transformation of Channing Tatum from mumbling toy-boy to thinking man's beefcake.
As Mike, Tatum is a pillar of integrity, a hard-working stud with his eyes on the end game.
... the director, the unpredictable Steven Soderbergh, gives the clich�s a surface gloss of credibility.
What works in the movie are its cast, locale, and unique milieu. We're shown the behind-the-scenes workings ... the same way we become privy to the workings of wrestling in The Wrestler, although it's obviously much, much more fun being a stripper.
The crotch fireworks from the dance sequences are huge but once they settle the plot is as thin as a piece of material going up a male exotic dancer's backside.
...the meandering atmosphere [is] eventually (and perhaps inevitably) exacerbated by a reliance on eye-rollingly hackneyed elements and plot developments.
After its overly drawn out introduction (featuring far too much stripping), the movie rushes in its final stages.
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