Hey film lovers,
it's the turn of Magic Mike this week, which is currently in cinemas. It's still going strong since being released 11th July, yet it hasn't received entirely positive reviews. Nevertheless, I decided to give it a try and go see it anyway. What I found though, was that the negative reviews had been written for a reason. Harsh as it sounds, this movie wasn't really worth my time.
Magic Mike (played by a hunkalicious Channing Tatum) is a 30 year old builder at a construction site by day, with dreams of becoming a successful furniture maker. By night, he becomes a shaved, buffed and bronzed male stripper, dancing, shaking and winning more screaming women than a sold out Michael Buble concert. The first time we saw him on screen sent the whole cinema into one big squealing frenzy - you can imagine! It is Tatum's body, and some impressive dance moves, that make this movie. Sadly, not much else does.
Anyway, the story really begins when Mike meets young new worker Adam at the construction site (Alex Pettyfer - now this guy really has grown up. The blonde flowing curly locks have gone!) They run into each other that evening outside the strip club, and Adam convinces Mike to let him go in with him. This catapults Adam into the world of strippers, and he's desperate for a slice of it. Following an agreement between Mike and leading man Dallas (Matthew McConaughey, who reminds Adam that his role as a stripper is to be "the husband those women never had"), Adam - now introduced as 'The Kid' due to him being only 19 - is pushed out onto the stage to show Dallas what he's got. Despite a cringey attire at one point of baggy boxers and grey woolly socks, he joins the team, and away they go.
I won't tell you the rest of the story, not because I'll spoil it, but because it has unneccesary complications and some pointless parts. Either that or I'm just being a bit silly. I liked the stubborn character of Brooke, Adam's sister (Cody Horn), who Mike clearly has a thing for but she is reluctant to have anything to do with him at first. But throw in a chance to take the show to Miami, something about receiving 7.5% instead of 10% (didn't know what was going on) and a bust up at a house party involving drugs - one of the darker parts of the plot - oh, and a pig called Herman, and you have a slightly mismatched film with a bad plot.
Even the lead characters flexing their muscles gets old; we are treated to several montages of the gang performing various routines, but these are dotted around as though to fill some time, and they got boring. In fact, it was during one of these scenes that a woman on the front row - who must've been drunk, otherwise she should be very embarrassed - stood up and began to join in with her own cringey dance routine. As if it couldn't get any worse - it was hilarious though - she then decided to dive head first into the row behind her, causing Channing Tatum to be partly hidden from view due to this lady's legs waving around in the air whilst she struggled to get up. For me, this was the most entertaining part of the night - and she wasn't even in the movie!
So if you like Channing Tatum and other men taking their clothes off, then I recommend this movie to you. If however, you like Channing Tatum, but also a good film with a decent plot, then I suggest you don't bother with this one. You'll be disappointed.
Rating: 2.5 stars (not worth paying £8.30 for, I'm afraid)
Georgie
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