Plot
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 6.1/10 (263 voted)
Critic's Score: 59/100
Director: Gregory Jacobs
Stars: Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer
Storyline
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
Writers: Reid Carolin, Reid Carolin
Cast: Channing Tatum -
Mike
Juan Piedrahita -
Salvador
Sharon Blackwood -
Motel Clerk
Alison Faulk -
White Shadow
Josh Diogo -
Pool Party Guy
Joe Manganiello -
Big Dick Richie
Kevin Nash -
Tarzan
Gabriel Iglesias -
Tobias
Matt Bomer -
Ken
Adam Rodriguez -
Tito
Vicky Vox -
Tori Snatch
Javier Madrid -
Voguer #1
Dashaun Wesley Williams -
Voguer #2
Carrie Anne Hunt -
Megan Davidson
Crystal Hunt -
Lauren
Trivia:
Michael strahan announced on live with Kelly and Michael that he would indeed make an appearance in Magic Mike XXL See more »
User Review
Author:
Rating: 3/10
Mike is persuaded by his past twerking buddies to take a road trip to a
stripper's convention. He has been out of the game for three years now.
They have an accident and meet up with Mike's ex.
Yeah, that sounds about right. There's a whole lot of talking about a
whole bunch of nothing. And even if I may not be the intended target
audience, it really took like forty minutes before the film even gets
to the goods. Those boys don't dance around for a good while and still
then, the best dancing doesn't even come from the mates on the road
trip. Channing Tatum can move but the other guys are dead weight.
Gregory Jacobs was the first assistant director on the first "Magic
Mike". He has, however, been the first AD on a few of Steven
Soderbergh's films. Now they decide to both produce a sequel where
Jacobs can take the director's chair and Soderbergh will make some real
poor decisions with lighting, composition and editing. The film is so
badly lit that so much of it is in darkness. And when it is lit then
it's odd. Highlighting weird features. Felt like a student film.
The characters are hardly admirable characters, perhaps they're not
meant to be. But then they sit around and talk about the difficulties
of being so beautiful, how it holds them back and how connections are
so difficult. It's a little juvenile, self indulgent and boring. Then
the film tries reaching for that two-hour mark to really test the idea
of patience. But the characters: you have the tall Greek god type with
the monster junk that no woman can handle. Then there's the aged guy
who looks like a run down version of Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler".
He cant act and is bile-bubbling watching him strip down to a tiny
G-string. This ken doll retard that actually just comes off a little
weak and whiny. And the Latino guy because that shows diversity.
Apparently.
The obstacles? They each have to come to terms with being ripped and
beautiful (except the wrestler, he needs to come to terms with being
really old). Other than that I don't really see any obstacles.
Okay, for the good stuff. There are two-dance scenes that are really
impressive. The choreography is impeccable. The first is in a secret
strip club where Mike is challenged and laps up flipping and twisting
women around as he bangs them, rhythmically. And the last dance where
Mike and a new guy pull of an impressive reflective dance routine with
two women on chairs. Channing Tatum won't come off looking unskilled in
this little drama. Jada Pinkett Smith is quite sassy as the stripping
MC. And the soundtrack is pretty great. Other than that…
I want to say that this one is really for the ladies but I feel the
ladies might even be disappointed with the amount of fun to be had in a
film that appears to have been more fun to make. There's ten minutes of
worthy entertainment but another hundred and five minutes that you have
to sift through. "Magic Mike XXL" is a weird mash up of a
road-trip-dance- comp-brothel film that's just boring.
Ill give it some points for the dancing sequences.
If you agree check out keepingitreel.info. if not, come cuss me out.
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