Saturday, June 29, 2013

Magic Mike (2012)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer:    Reid Carolin
Cast:      Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Mathew McConaughey, Olivia Munn, Cody Horn

A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women and make easy money.

Film is basically a story told many times before but it puts it in a male stripping context. It is partly based on Channing Tatum's life as an 18 year old stripper in Tampa. Despite the cliches it is a very good watch especially because of the rawness with which it is acted. Channing Tatum is surprisingly good as the experienced mentor. The film did extremely well at the box office grossing around 167 million on a meagre 7 million budget.

Rating: 4/5

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