SummaryPicking up the story three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, Magic Mike XXL finds the remaining Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blow-out performance in Myrtle Beach, and with legendary headliner Magic Mike shari...
SummaryPicking up the story three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, Magic Mike XXL finds the remaining Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blow-out performance in Myrtle Beach, and with legendary headliner Magic Mike shari...
It may be a meandering road trip movie about a group of emotive performers who fancy themselves therapists, but Magic Mike XXL is an ingenious revelation of a film.
What saves it all from being sordid is the open desire of the director, Gregory Jacobs, and his writer, Reid Carolin, to make sure the women in the film, not the male dancers, are ultimately the ones who are celebrated.
The dance routines are awesome. The movie is very entertaining, yet simple and light.
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This was a great movie! The first Magic Mike was better. Channing Tatum is soooo HOT! I highly recommend it for those who want to have a great time watching hot sexy beef-cake men grind their stuff. Fit, hardbodies and muscles and sexiness galore!!! I see many bad reviews and that 's to be expected, probably form haters (men) or men pretending to be women. I watched it twice and it was worth every minute!
Even the best routines can’t entirely raise the film from its shambling, directionless feeling, and nothing is nearly as tight as Tatum and crew’s dance moves.
More than anything, I felt recognized by Magic Mike XXL. It's sweet, feminist, funny, weird, erotic. For a movie about a bunch of straight fellas on a road trip, it's one of the most female-centric films I've ever seen. It's kind without being sentimental, sexy without being stanky. I love that Soderbergh et al put the love-story and moral compass stuff on the back burner and, a la Alice down the rabbit hole, just let these guys wander from one freaky situation to another - all rendered with equal parts nuance and fantasy. By the time they get to the Andie MacDowell character's place, I thought - geeze this practically feels like an art film. Layered characters, crafty dialog, beautifully shot. But it's about strippers! Heaven. And a real stand out: scene after scene crammed with women who look like actual human beings. There's not a single **** any where in this movie. Nor do the guys feel threatened by other folks of color, by **** culture, by women of size, or by each other. It's got just enough goof and fantasy to keep it all heightened. Yet it all feels grounded in reality - a sur-reality where a bunch of straight boys actually talk about what women want and it's not adversarial. It's hahhht. My only bummer - that more critics and audience members aren't recognizing the value and importance of a major Hollywood release that so deeply celebrates female sexuality and the many possible manifestations of a more gentle masculinity. Go see Magic Mike XXL!
Disappointing - even for someone who really liked the first one. This one was not directed by Soderbergh but by his assistant director, and the even bigger problem was just the lack of story or writing. There was no cohesive story in this film, there was very little stuff going on between the **** of the thinnest plots of a studio film I have ever seen. Large chunks of the film was just male strip tease dance numbers that had nothing to do with the plot and was just an excuse I guess to get people who like that kindof eye candy more of it. As a straight guy, none of that did anything for me and while it was limited in the first film to only letting us see what they were doing, whereas most of the focus was on the story of the two guys...this film was like the **** excuse to show a bunch of male stripping with the story secondary. Its a bad sign when I Get so bored I have to self-edit the film by fast forwarding but thats what I had to do for multiple dance scenes towards the end as it served no purpose beyond maybe a sexual thing, such as a straight guy watching porn. With that said, if you liked the first film, or really like male stripping, you may like it, as there were a few funny moments and some of the dances were new and interesting, but it was not a great movie overall.
The movie is not very good, and there is no real sense of the plot being important at all. Nothing really gets solved, and by the end of it you know you bought a ticket to see the dancing. If you like the dancing go see it by all means, if you are looking for a great story mixed with the production values of its predecessor; it's not necessary to see.
I approached the sequel to “Magic Mike” expecting fun, fun, fun and guys with fantastic bodies shaking their junk and booties all over the place. “Magic Mike XXL” has the guys, with fantastic bodies, shaking their all but it isn’t fun, fun, fun but boring, boring, boring!
There are too many unnecessary storylines, written by Reid Carolin, while the direction by Gregory Jacobs and the choreography by Alison Faulk, have the guys in **** bars--but none, of course, are **** bars, a **** house, at a strippers competition and in a Southern woman’s house filled with divorcees and wine.
The first movie was based somewhat on Channing Tatum’s life before he became a star and this is a Hollywood movie which seems to have little basis in truth. The choreography is polished, each of the strippers have a ‘back’ story and at the very beginning Mathew McConaughey’s is explained but he is missed.
The men besides Tatum are: Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Donald Glover, Stephen “tWitch Boss, Michael Strahan, plus a few extras, certainly have the bodies to make guys in the audience make a resolution to hit the gym--right after the July 4th weekend! They also have the dance moves down but the editing, costumes and most of the dances are just ‘off’ a bit enough to make their scenes distracting.
Jada Pinkett Smith takes McConaughey’s place as the emcee of the boy’s show and has a fling with Tatum in the past. Amber Heard, as Andie MacDowell’s daughter who is the Southern woman hostess and the rare woman who can take XXL Manganiello, is the new love interest for Tatum. Gabriel Iglesias, as the only **** guy with the group not as a dancer until he enters in Carmen Miranda drag to win a contest but is the driver of a truck for the guys and has a bad accident closing his eyes while driving and all the guys are high on ‘molly’. Elizabeth Banks has a few minutes on screen as the competition’s director and as an ex of Jada--don’t ask!
As with most sequels “Magic Mike XXL” doesn’t stack up to the original, is not as sexy though there are more dances and men, and not as much fun--not one man or women in the audience threw dollar bills at the screen!
This movie did not have a story. There was no dancing expect for the ending. I did feel the characters did try there best to have a good movie but it fell short.