Magic Mike (2012)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 191
Fresh: 153 | Rotten: 38
Magic Mike's sensitive direction, smart screenplay, and strong performances allow audiences to have their beefcake and eat it too.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 5
Magic Mike's sensitive direction, smart screenplay, and strong performances allow audiences to have their beefcake and eat it too.
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Set in the world of male strippers, Magic Mike is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Channing Tatum in a story inspired by his real life. The film follows Mike (Tatum) as he takes a young dancer called The Kid (Pettyfer) under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money. -- (C) Warner Bros.
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Cast
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Channing Tatum
Magic Mike -
Alex Pettyfer
Adam, The Kid -
Matt Bomer
Ken -
Joe Manganiello
Big Dick Richie -
Matthew McConaughey
Dallas -
Cody Horn
Brooke, Paige -
Olivia Munn
Joanna -
Riley Keough
Nora, Zora -
Kevin Nash
Tarzan -
Adam Rodriguez
Tito -
Gabriel Iglesias
DJ, Tobias -
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Reid Carolin
Paul -
Avery Camp
Girl in Line -
George E. Sack Jr.
George -
Micaela Johnson
Portia -
Denise Vasi
Ruby -
Camryn Grimes
Birthday Girl -
Kate Easton
Liz -
Asher Wallis
Obnoxious Bar Guy -
Alison Faulk
Havana Nights Girl -
Catherine Lynn Stone
Blonde Bachelorette -
Jennifer Skinner
Silhouette Girl -
Vanessa Ryan
Cowboy Lap Dance Girl -
Teresa Espinosa
Pony Girl -
Betsy Brandt
Banker -
Monica García
Dr. Love Girl -
Annette Houlihan Verdolin...
Tarzan's Girl -
Candace Marie Celmer
Boxing Girl -
Lyss Remaly
Girl Richie Lifts -
Jannel Diaz
Tito's Girl -
Mircea Monroe
Ken's Wife -
Maynard the Pig
Herman the Pig -
Caitlin Gerard
Kim -
Yari Deleon
Sorority Girl -
Cameron Banfield
Kim's Boyfriend -
Michael Roark
Ryan -
Keith Kurtz
Thug #1 -
Marland Burke
Thug #2 -
Ashley Hayes
Raver Girl
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All Critics (192) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (156) | Rotten (38) | DVD (3)
Soderbergh has created a spicy yet lucid, surgingly high-energy yet smartly modernistic musical.
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.
Does a better job of mixing Chippendales-style guilty pleasures with reality-based cautionary tales than you might expect.
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.
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?
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.
The sexy mischief and the darkness and the earnest character beats all fit together in one terrifically entertaining, perfectly pitched success.
Raucous, funny and disgracefully entertaining.
Musings on the nature of capitalism wrapped in a very pretty package ... Magic Mike is a film for adventurous audiences of all persuasions.
Some wildly entertaining dancing (and stripping) underscores several impressive performances.
Channing Tatum talks "Magic Mike" and his breakout year as a movie star.
Steven Soderbergh has made a movie that works as both intimate character study and party film.
The extras are a little, um, bare, but this transfer of one of the best American films of the year is otherwise superb.
A compelling character study not to be missed, if only to witness a gutsy, career performance delivered by the ever-improving Channing Tatum.
Magic Mike takes a familiar story and transforms it into something modern, unique and beautiful to look at (and I'm not just talking beefcakes, here).
Engaging and sensitive
I never imagined that I would see The Full Monty re-envisioned by the Oscar winning director of Erin Brokovich and Traffic. But yup, here you have it: Steven Soderberg has created his stripping opus.
Magic Mike is far from perfect, but that's the fun. Whether you think Soderbergh is winking at the audience or the movie is "so bad it's good," Magic Mike is one heck of a good time at the movies.
It's good to have another Soderbergh movie, and one that's completely different from anything he's done before. But beneath the magic, "Mike" is ultimately meh.
A vanilla panorama of beefcake for rent
Soderbergh lets scenes develop in a raw, natural way that makes the stripping scenes hilariously entertaining to watch
It's "Showgirls" for girls, but with its camp knob tuned to a much more tolerable and skilled frequency... It's pretty awesome
Magic Mike is just fun, and it's fun because it's good.
I was gunning for Showgirls only as Show Boys. Instead director Steven Soderbergh did something normal and classy, which are two words I associate with his other films and did not want to describe this film.
Reigning men on a physical, philosophical and psychological level, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike also completes the transformation of Channing Tatum from mumbling toy-boy to thinking man's beefcake.
As Mike, Tatum is a pillar of integrity, a hard-working stud with his eyes on the end game.
Audience Reviews for Magic Mike
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Nate's Grade: B-
Super Reviewer
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- Magic Mike: Oh, you don't wanna know what I have to do for twenties.
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- Dallas: The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
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- Magic Mike: Are we fighting? Is this our first fight?
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- Paige: Entrepreneur/stripper? Stripper/entrepreneur?
- Magic Mike: Either one.
- Paige: I was hoping this was all a joke.
- Magic Mike: It is pretty funny.
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- Magic Mike: Distressed? [slams huge wad of cash on bank clerk's desk] Does THIS look like distressed?
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- Dallas: You are the husband they've never had, you are the dream guy they've never came along.
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