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Magic Mike
Mike Lane is a thirty-year old living in Tampa, Florida. He has big plans for a business of his own but pays his bills through a series of odd jobs, most notably performing as the star stripper at Xquisite Strip Club in Tampa, a club owned by Dallas, who has dreams of creating an 'empire' of strip clubs. One night Adam, a teen-aged work-mate of Mike, follows him to the club and, when one of the acts is unable to go on,he is prevailed upon to strip - becoming a huge hit. However success goes to his head and his foolish actions not only threaten to jeopardize his sister Brooke';;;s relationship with Mike but Mike';;;s ambitions as well.
16 June 1978, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
17 January 1974, Miami, Florida, USA
10 January 1982, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
11 October 1977, Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
February 14, 2017
Matthew McConaughey uses the drawling, at times oily charm to play a low-rent impresario determined to move his weekend enterprise into prime-time Miami and he's superb, and yet it's Tatum who impresses here.
April 15, 2016
[A] perfect storm of marketability and smart, inventive avant-garde cinema - a resourceful character piece built upon a cacophony of cinematic contrast.
June 29, 2012
Does a better job of mixing Chippendales-style guilty pleasures with reality-based cautionary tales than you might expect.
April 03, 2013
The sexy mischief and the darkness and the earnest character beats all fit together in one terrifically entertaining, perfectly pitched success.
June 29, 2012
Magic Mike has a conventional structure, yet a teasing question percolates beneath: If selling yourself is as much fun as this movie makes it look, what could be wrong with it?
June 30, 2012
Tatum, whose talents have been the subject of debate, also makes Mike genuinely affecting, not to mention articulate within the bounds of a sketchy script.
June 29, 2012
If you're looking for a romance with 100 percent prime beefcake? Get your singles out and ready, ladies. "Magic Mike" is in the house.
June 29, 2012
The dance numbers, choreographed by Allison Faulk, are inventive and athletic, but not really erotic; Soderbergh never lets you forget that, for these men, dancing is above all a job.
October 05, 2016
Ladies of the world, just watch some porn. I promise it's a lot more satisfying than Magic Mike.
March 14, 2013
Raucous, funny and disgracefully entertaining.
July 02, 2012
Soderbergh has created a spicy yet lucid, surgingly high-energy yet smartly modernistic musical.
September 08, 2013
Once you get past the thongs, the uniforms, and the sleek choreographed stripping dance routines -- admittedly, the main attraction of Magic Mike for most audiences -- it's just another day at the office for Steven Soderbergh

