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Sadly Over-hyped

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Tries to do for male strippers what Boogie Nights did for pornstars, this tries to show the effects of the lifestyle on its participants, but spends a bit too much time trying to titilate the female audience to be as effective. Fun, but ultimately not much else

"What can we do with seven hours?" (until breakfast reference), when the line drops at the end of "Magic Mike" directed by Steven Soderbergh putting the title giving main character, performed by gone-fishing Channing Tatum in his element, in a life changing situation with actress Cody Horn, it becomes that the movie rushed to the finish line with the perfect matching song of Foreigner's "It Feels Like First Time". Thanks to the director deep-understanding of his characters desires "Magic Mike" becomes a smash hit at the U.S. box office in Summer 2012 with a minimalistic independence budget of 7 million U.S. Dollars.Steven Soderbergh, being his own cinematographer and doing the editorials, brings the story of struggling Mike about to become a male stripper in the depth of Florida State under money-focused surveillance of Matthew McConaughey portrait of Dallas seconding Tom Cruise performance of Frank T.J. Mackey in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" (1999) with extra charm and sense of the seducing spectacle instead of dismantling lectures of women's secret male fantasies before Steven Soderbergh ingeniously cuts the scene abruptly to tell Magic Mike's story coming out of bed taking a leak.The film's story that involves has the simplicity of a classic, no bull-shitting, straight forward coverage and action beats of dancing tainted and shaved males in a Tampa underground strip club, where the character of Dallas rules with iron fist. Magic Mike becomes all the benefits after having his breakthrough performance on stage with close to break dance act, earning respect and fortune of whole crew before Alex Pettyfer in the character of Adam breaks the bound of the team with over-driving the giving parameters of male stripping job in drugs and money flushing debts."Magic Mike" shares an humanized look on a niche of never-stop struggling working class in the United States, which makes the movie a piece of entertainment enduring its distribution windows to this day and furthermore accelerated the careers of every cast and crew member involved in the projects and least for some quality time before struggle for novelty financing outside the Hollywood system all over again, in which respectably speaking has become Director Steven Soderbergh a master in his own right since his sky-rocketing independent debut "Sex, Lies and Videotape" at 1989er edition of the Cannes Film Festival, struggling his way every since up and down nevertheless to top in season 2000/2001 with the "Erin Brockovich" and "Traffic" double bill, beating Ridley Scott, Ang Lee and arguably the critic's choice from theater-coming Stephen Daldry in AMPAS votes at the 73rd edition of the Academy Awards.It leaves me as specter in awe to watch the upcoming project "Lucky Logan", collaborating once again with actor Channing Tatum surrounded by another diversity of casting choices, all up front Daniel Craig in the role of Joe Bang, soon to be released, after the director's abstinence of the circuit for four years.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

A every poor script, bad direction and wooden acting drove this Channing Tatum vehicle right over the cliff. There is too much time spent on the males dancer scenes and no time spent on a story or character development. Yes, Tatum started as a male stripper and this is nothing but a sad grab for movie-goers wallets by showing what that world is like. Who cares? Horrible dialogue and bad camera work were the least of this pictures problems. Oh, did I mention the sound was terrible as well but the abysmal soundtrack was at concert volume. I am not interested in watching male dancers but that is not the main reason I disliked this film. After it was established that they did different routines in their acts it was unnecessary to keep showing them doing that. Unless you are a hardcore Channing Tatum fan this is not worth the time spent to watch it. Even then...think about it before you do.

If there's one thing the trailers for this film got right, its that it's a film about male strippers. However, this film approaches a raunchy subject with a decent amount of class and restraint, which the trailers fail to imply.Magic Mike is a drama about the male strip scene. There's nothing much funny about what happens in the film, and it's driven by well written and well acted characters more than anything else. This isn't the male equivalent of a film like Showgirls, something that relishes in the exploitation of women, no. In fact, if the genders of Magic Mike were reversed, it would probably be heralded as a feminist masterpiece.The film is mainly about the friendship between Mike and Adam. Mike is a 30-something entrepreneur who wants to start a custom furniture business, and Adam is a 19 year old who doesn't know what to do with his life. They meet on a construction site, go to a nightclub, and Adam discovers that Mike is an incredibly talented stripper, and Adam discovers that he wants in, to the dismay of his older sister.From there comes quite a compelling character drama that goes through the highs and lows of the male stripper life, and it's compelling. Apparently, Channing Tatum (Mike) was a male stripper before he got into acting, and it shows in the beautifully filmed dance sequences. Magic Mike is essentially a well written, R-Rated Step Up film, and it's incredibly entertaining on that level.The main flaw this film has is basically how it was marketed. I can't really imagine how many straight women (and gay men) came to the film expecting some good old sexual exploitation, and instead got a lot of drama and conflict. It's good, but not what was expected. It's like ordering a hamburger and getting a taco, they're both delicious, and they both contain beef, but you'd still be a little annoyed that you didn't get what you asked for.Anyway, if you keep that in mind, you'll definitely enjoy this movie for what it is, a compelling character drama in a fairly unique setting.