Magic Mike Is This Decade's Best Film About Male Strippers Who Dream Of Building Custom Furniture

Magic Mike (2012)

It was hard to understand quite why Stephen Soderbergh would decide to make a film about male stripping starring Channing Tatum, but when I kept on hearing positive reviews for the film I ended up deciding that I was just going to have to see for myself. The obsession with this movie from the guys at Filmdrunk (who coined the nickname "C-Tates" for the lead actor) played a key role in encouraging me to see what I was missing.

Prior to checking it out, I was aware that the plot was actually supposed to be pretty well rounded and that, if anything, women who went to see "Magic Mike" for the stripping felt a little misinformed about the content of this film. (I'm told that there's an option on the DVD to deal with this, allowing you to watch all the stripping scenes and to miss out the plot. I'm not big on DVD extras, so I didn't notice.)


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