Do not read any further if you don't want to hear anything negative. To put it in the most realistic terms; Magic Mike SUCKS. Holy geez is this a bad movie. I don't even know where to begin. Everything is bad; the writing, the directing, the acting, the dancing, the choreography, the minimal stripping, and most blatant, the lack of attractive strippers.
I can hardly come up with even a one sentence synopsis. Magic Mike is a movie about a guy. That's about it. It's bland and boring. It's so weak, I cringe at even calling it a movie. It's a dry attempt at Boogie Nights meets Coyote Ugly, but instead it comes out Boogie Ugly. Normally I try to hold back on including spoilers, but this movie is already rancid.
Channing Tatum is Magic Mike. He is a sub par actor. So many scenes are painful to watch, but you watch anyway hoping his dancing will be worth it. If you have never seen him in Step Up (2006), you might not be so disappointed. Either way you expect so much more than he delivers.
Alex Pettyfer as Adam is such a drag. His pretty face could not save the day.
Matthew McConaughy as Dallas, the club owner, is annoying from the moment he opens his mouth. The lighting makes him look sullen and sick so you wonder if his character is supposed to be cracked out, but nothing in the story line indicates he's a meth head so I chalk it up to bad lighting.
Joe Manganiello as one of the strippers doesn't know how to dance, let alone strip. Same goes for Kevin Nash as Tarzan. When you first see him, you wonder if he's the bouncer because you don't expect a guy looking like that to be a stripper.
Cody Horn as Brooke, Adam's sister, is straight out of a scripted "reality" show.
Olivia Munn as Joanna is the only bright spot in this disaster of a movie. She's like the professional actress that agreed to help out her little cousin's student film.
The apex of the drama is underwhelming. You're constantly waiting for something major to happen, but it never does. Most of it is a build up to a "That's it?" reaction. Case in point, toward the end, Dallas somewhat challenges Mike to come up with "fresh" material. Mike goes on stage with what is supposed to look like combat gear but looks more like a corset and breaks out some hip hop moves. That's it. No really, that's it.
Sometimes we approach movies knowing that the writing will probably be cheesy, the acting corny, and the overall story predictable; but we watch it anyway hoping that the choreography of the dance, cheers, drum lines, stepping, stomping, or even playing cups while singing will be satisfaction enough to deal with the former. Do not approach Magic Mike this way. You will be disappointed. At best, Magic Mike is a high budget porn without the porn.
On a scale of 1-10, Magic Mike is 2.0
with distinction: highly overrated.
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