Ok, so you know how I was just saying that I didn't understand why Bunraku didn't get any love from the critics? This is like that, but opposite. Currently, Magic Mike is sitting at 79% on rottentomatoes.com. Bunraku got 20%. That is ridiculous and makes me wonder if we're not in some bizarro-world. I get why commercial audiences liked Magic Mike. It's stupid, sleazy, and predictable and it has hot people who get half naked for most of the running time. It is the greasy-spoon diner burger of movies.
Channing Tatum stars as Mike, a male stripper trying to earn enough cred to get his custom furniture business off the ground. Only instead of improving his credit rating by taking out micro-loans or making car payments, he insists on a cash-only business model because he's stupid. He takes junior idiot Adam (Alex Pettyfer) under his wing and introduces him to the party lifestyle, much to Alex's sister, Brooke's (Cody Horn) chagrin. She wants her baby brother to grow up but instead he gets involved in running party drugs for Tobias (Gabriel Iglesias).
There's nudity in the first ten minutes of the movie from Tatum and Olivia Munn. I was a little surprised that Munn would go topless, considering that she's not really part of the film, just a side character. Riley Keough is also given a bizarrely small role as a drugged out slutty chick with a piglet. Not even making that up.
I don't know what the hell is up with Steven Soderbergh recently. I hated last year's Haywire and this is just another wrong turn as far as I'm concerned. Its writing is moderately charming when it's trying to be funny but I zoned out completely as soon as characters started pretending to be serious. The choreography is decent but there's not enough of it to justify a movie this long. It's a big, sweaty, slightly pretty mess.
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