
Writer: Reid Carolin
Starring: Channing Tatum
Alex Pettyfer
Matthew McConaughey
Cody Horn
Matt Bomer
Joe Manganiello
Olivia Munn
Alex Rodriguez
Kevin Nash
Rating: *
Release Date: Out Now
Magic Mike was announced last year, and with each new piece of casting and film news that was released, many a head began to turn. Women (and some men) have been getting all hot and bothered for years at just the idea of these Hollywood hunks getting nekkid, and now their fantasies were going to come true...well, almost. I can honestly say (and I know many, many people will disagree) that Magic Mike failed to live up to it's over-sized, over-hyped expectations, and the film as a whole was dull, unoriginal and extremely boring.
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Channing Tatum & Cody Horn |
Whilst working at one of his side jobs as a builder, Mike meets the unlucky, lazy and kind of selfish Adam (Pettyfer), who is just looking for a way to make a quick buck. Mike, for some reason, sees potential in 'The Kid', and soon snaps him up and enlists him as the newest dancer; it's this friendship that the film follows and unravels.
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(L-R) Matt Bomer, Channing Tatum, Alex Rodriguez & Joe Manganiello |
The whole sorry affair just wreaks of desperation, and rather than feeling like a film that was made out of passion and the love of film making...it just feels like a badly set up money-grabbing scheme; just bringing in an audience for their benefit. The film is one big mish-mash of plotlines that are boring and uninteresting, especially the romance storyline. Fair enough Tatum and Horn do have brilliant chemistry and feel really natural together, but the lame script hinders them, and wrecks any success they would've achieved.
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Alex Pettyfer & Matthew McConaughey |
When first announced, many people got very excited about the prospect of seeing Hollywood's finest specimens stripping on the big screen; however what we were served up was anything but impressive and was, if anything, a massive let down. I find it bizarre that many women on Facebook and Twitter are bragging about going to see this film 2, maybe 3, times; as I don't think I could bring myself to sit through this even once more. As my friend and I were saying to each other after seeing the film, if you're going to make a film about stripping...then you should do just that.
Magic Mike - Trailer
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