"Magic Mike" is a drama that is centered around the lifestyle of male stripping. It's been awhile since a movie of this sort has came out. Using solid choreography and a steady dose of dialogue, "Magic Mike" hopes to capture the audiences attention not only with the much anticipated stripping, but with a strong storyline. Let's see if the film can one up it's past predecessors of the same genre, "Showgirls" and "Striptease," and give "Ted" a run for it's money for the top spot in the box office.
Mike (Channing Tatum) is a 30 year old who wants to start getting his life on track by becoming an entrepreneur and starting his own business. But before that can happen, he works part time at a male strip club and is a number two to his boss Dallas (Matthew McConaughey). Mike then meets Adam (Alex Pettyfer) and takes him under his wing and shows him the lifestyle he lives and all the benefits it can come from it.
*I would like to add that I went into this film with an open mind. I was generally interested in seeing it.*
Steven Soderbergh direction of this film was great. He used great shots and they were beautiful as well. He really captured the colors of the all the backgrounds during the scenes; typical Soderbergh. He occasionally mixed in some character off-screen dialogue where it would focus on the character that was listening to the other character talk off screen. The choreography of the dancing was great. The dance moves that were being pulled off were impressive. Channing Tatum's performance was not bad. He has been improving with the last couple movies he has been in. McConaughey's performance was classic McConaughey; charming, charismatic and cool. Pettyfer The lead female role (Cody Horn) and love interest of Mike was not the quite good. I really cringed when she got some dialogue. She just didn't fit in. The pacing was slow. The beginning started out so well and then it just got slow.
Overall, I didn't enjoy the film. I repeat I went in with an open mind. A lot of its target audience, females, were disappointed walking out of the theater. They were expecting 110 minutes of topless men dancing and they didn't get it. There was more of a story line (which isn't bad, just cliche and not really developed). I couldn't get invested into the movie.
2 out of 5 stars.
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