Best movie of this year hands down!

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

One of my all time favorites.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The women who gushed to see this film are accused of objectifying the strippers, well, when men ogle at films with lap or pole dancers, no one says a thing. This is sadly a double standard world and if we can also look at the small dreams of a male stripper who has a daytime job at a construction site ( Channing Tatum) who recruited a colleague ( Alex Pettyfer) and gets smitten with the latter's sister, the viewer is not isolated solely on the club rather presented a plausible story of holding onto your dreams whatever the means may be. Matthew McConnaughey in my eyes has a devilish , hilarious face that he must have carried on from his romcom days. The coaching scène in the dance studio left me in stitches. This is an entertaining film though geared towards the ladies didn't give any warning indicating that the men can't enjoy this film as well.

"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)

Surprisingly good story considering its content. While this is blatantly a vehicle to show of Tatum's dancing skills and also one obviously geared to bring legions of female fans for each respective Hollywood stud and the removal of their clothes, it is still an interesting film worthy of staying till the end credits. It is well acted by all concerned - there is an almost ad-lib quality to some of the dialogue, frantic exchanges often overlapping each other, lending an aspect of realism to the whole piece.It's not going to win any Oscars, but it certainly surprised me with how engaging it actually was. A film not be taken at face value...

A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money. Magic Mike is a film that nobody expected to turn out into a critical success but since it did and i have only reviewed the crappy sequel i said to myself "why don't i review the original as well?". Although it's not a masterpiece by any means Magic Mike is still a surprising well made film and if you go to rotten tomatoes you will see that both men and women enjoyed this. The performances and the dancing were pretty good, the characters were alright nothing spectacular although sometimes they get a bit annoying and the acting was good and i think that some people will enjoy it depending on their expectations (7/10)