Magic Mike XXL
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: July 1, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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22
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88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stacey May FowlesJun 30, 2015
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. Read full review
83
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 30, 2015
It is rowdy at heart, but smart about it, and it is one more reminder that Channing Tatum is really not like anyone else working in movies right now. It is also celebratory in the way that the first film was sad, concerned more with self-acceptance than running from something. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnJun 29, 2015
Magic Mike XXL keeps its aspirations low enough to satisfy only the simplest of expectations; at the end of the day, it's just another party, but sometimes a party is just good enough. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 30, 2015
Magic Mike XXL boldly flouts pop-cultural conventional wisdom. It’s often said that an explanation of a joke can’t be funny, and that the analysis of pornography is never sexy. But here is a coherent and rigorous theory of pleasure that is also an absolute blast. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 30, 2015
There are laughs in Magic Mike XXL.... But the real eye-openers are the moments of sex-positive, woman-positive and emotion-positive contemplation. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyJun 29, 2015
Cleaving hard to its road-trip formula, it works out less of an honest-to-goodness plot than Magic Mike, but goes even beyond that wonderfully loose, dexterous movie in feeling sexually liberated. It’s more glammed-up, rising above any element of tawdry exploitation, and is more of an outright comedy. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJun 29, 2015
Magic Mike XXL is ridiculously entertaining. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 1, 2015
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. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJun 30, 2015
Does the movie work? Intermittently, sometimes brilliantly. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickJun 30, 2015
The dance routines are so hilariously spectacular — and the film is such good-naturedly inclusive fun — that you may not miss the absence of anything resembling dramatic conflict in what’s close to a feature-length concert film. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 30, 2015
It retains the original's sunny, democratic vibe and refreshing lack of meanness, as well as Soderbergh's interest (if not his precision) in keeping several of the ensemble members in frame, interacting, without a lot of routine close-ups. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 2, 2015
It’s sort of like "Pitch Perfect 2," only with better music and dancing and less trumped-up conflict. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirJul 1, 2015
This isn’t a perfect movie, but it might be the perfect summer movie for 2015. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonJun 30, 2015
He's selling nonsense fantasy in a movie that's nonsense fantasy, but boy is Tatum the real deal. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasJun 30, 2015
More than the first Magic Mike, XXL is a loose, shambling party bus—or party organic fro-yo food truck, to be more exact—and everyone’s having a great time. These are entertainment professionals, after all, and the audience is in good hands. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 29, 2015
This sequel to the unlikely 2012 male-stripper sensation has an agreeably ramshackle spirit and another winning turn from star and producer Channing Tatum. As for the dancing, it’s as deliciously spirited as ever. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJun 30, 2015
Magic Mike XXL isn’t really a movie. It’s a bachelorette party, or a book club, or any other safe space where women gather for some of that “you go, girl” good feeling. It’s an amusement-park ride. Fasten the safety belt, secure your purses, and get ready to scream. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJun 30, 2015
Director Gregory Jacobs worked under original Magic Mike helmer Steven Soderberg for years, but sadly he has almost none of his former boss’s ability to elevate material that is essentially one lamé thong away from a TLC reality series. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJun 30, 2015
Magic Mike XXL is a piece of arm candy, as shallow as a mud puddle and just as bright. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to hang out with. Read full review
66
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 29, 2015
Revisiting this material to make a “let’s put on a show” musical is all well and good, but that musical would benefit from more energy and tighter editing. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversJul 1, 2015
We get bracing bro banter, pectoral flexing and the whole gang going wild on Molly. Good times. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundJul 1, 2015
Magic Mike XXL isn't so much a lesser movie than Magic Mike as it is a looser one. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghJun 30, 2015
To the film's credit, it knows it's ridiculous. It's aiming for ridiculous, and it hits the mark as precisely as the strippers groove half-naked to their beats. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeJun 29, 2015
Missing – and missed – are Matthew McConaughey as snake-hipped strip club owner Dallas and director Soderbergh, who gave the original its lived-in feel. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeJun 29, 2015
Written raggedly enough for the actors to bring their own chemistry to what aspirationally feels like one of Robert Altman’s backstage dramas (a la “Nashville” or “Ready to Wear”), Magic Mike XXL is most fun when it isn’t trying to justify itself, but just kicking back with the guys — or better yet, giving them a fresh excuse to show off their creativity. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramJun 29, 2015
Packed tight, Jacobs’ straightforward sequel may boast less up top than the Soderbergh-directed original, but still bulges where it counts. Read full review
58
The PlaylistKate ErblandJun 29, 2015
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. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedJul 8, 2015
Except for the admirable testosterone on display that represents hours in the gym instead of the acting class, the rest of Magic Mike XXL is seriously stupid. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 30, 2015
Magic Mike XXL tries mightily — if unsuccessfully — to match its predecessor’s stature as a camp classic, the epitome of trashy summer fun for the whole pansexual, polymorphously perverse, omni-libidinous family. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 30, 2015
With stingy portions and plenty of filler, Magic Mike XXL is the worst sausage party ever. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 30, 2015
The first hour of Magic Mike XXL is deadly. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie OgleJun 30, 2015
If Magic Mike XXL is bulging with anything, it’s inane conversation. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 30, 2015
Magic Mike XXL is darker, and between money-rain showers, duller. It's the movie many feared the original would be. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 30, 2015
The dancing is well-executed and staged, and the club scenes are fun. The banter may be forced and the formula the film follows exhausted. But quibbling with Magic Mike XXL is like griping about the latest turns in the “Step Up” saga. Nobody will hear you over the girlish squeals of delight from the paying customers. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianJeff BakerJun 30, 2015
Magic Mike XXL might be a good time on a summer evening, a one-night stand best forgotten before the sun rises, but it is not a good movie. It's boring, repetitive and lunk-headed. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRebecca KeeganJun 30, 2015
Watching it was like opening the wrong gift —- that's not my size, and I don't like blue, but thank you, Warner Bros., for even bothering to shop for me. Most of the other studios forgot my birthday. Read full review
40
EmpireIan FreerJun 29, 2015
With Soderbergh now only on cinematography duties, this one takes all of the original’s surface — chiefly the hip gyrations — and none of the substance, interesting character arcs or charms. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 29, 2015
We’re always waiting for something important or interesting to happen, but it never really does. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 30, 2015
"Magic Mike" was self-contained, made with no expectation of a second chapter - and they prove unable to surmount it. Too many elements that made the first film an enjoyable experience are missing. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 30, 2015
This sequel goes beyond disappointment into a sublime realm of embarrassment that's beyond and yet better than merely bad, because it fascinates: What on Earth were they thinking? Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 30, 2015
This movie is so excruciatingly dumb I felt as if someone had shaved 10 points off my I.Q. by the time I bolted for the exits. Read full review
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