Magic Mike (2012)

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Soderbergh has created a spicy yet lucid, surgingly high-energy yet smartly modernistic musical.

July 2, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Brody

New Yorker

Top Critic

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 30, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

Does a better job of mixing Chippendales-style guilty pleasures with reality-based cautionary tales than you might expect.

June 29, 2012 Full Review | Comments (5)

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

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.

June 29, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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 29, 2012 Full Review | Comments (7)

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

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 Full Review | Comments (2)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

The sexy mischief and the darkness and the earnest character beats all fit together in one terrifically entertaining, perfectly pitched success.

April 3, 2013 Full Review

Meredith Borders

Badass Digest

Raucous, funny and disgracefully entertaining.

March 14, 2013 Full Review

Andy Lea

Daily Star

Musings on the nature of capitalism wrapped in a very pretty package ... Magic Mike is a film for adventurous audiences of all persuasions.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Catherine Bray

Film4

Some wildly entertaining dancing (and stripping) underscores several impressive performances.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Steven Soderbergh has made a movie that works as both intimate character study and party film.

October 25, 2012 Full Review

Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

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).

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Kofi Outlaw

ScreenRant

Engaging and sensitive

September 30, 2012 Full Review

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

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.

September 27, 2012 Full Review

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

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.

September 14, 2012 Full Review

Jonathan Lack

We Got This Covered

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.

September 5, 2012 Full Review

Justin Craig

FoxNews.com

A vanilla panorama of beefcake for rent

September 4, 2012 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Soderbergh lets scenes develop in a raw, natural way that makes the stripping scenes hilariously entertaining to watch

August 24, 2012 Full Review

Rich Cline

Contactmusic.com

It's "Showgirls" for girls, but with its camp knob tuned to a much more tolerable and skilled frequency... It's pretty awesome

August 22, 2012 Full Review

Witney Seibold

CraveOnline

Magic Mike is just fun, and it's fun because it's good.

August 14, 2012 Full Review

Annlee Ellingson

Paste Magazine

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.

August 7, 2012 Full Review

Grae Drake

Movies.com

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.

August 4, 2012 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

As Mike, Tatum is a pillar of integrity, a hard-working stud with his eyes on the end game.

August 1, 2012 Full Review

Fiona Williams

sbs.com.au

... the director, the unpredictable Steven Soderbergh, gives the clichés a surface gloss of credibility.

July 30, 2012 Full Review

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

What works in the movie are its cast, locale, and unique milieu. We're shown the behind-the-scenes workings ... the same way we become privy to the workings of wrestling in The Wrestler, although it's obviously much, much more fun being a stripper.

July 30, 2012 Full Review

CJ Johnson

ABC Radio (Australia)

The crotch fireworks from the dance sequences are huge but once they settle the plot is as thin as a piece of material going up a male exotic dancer's backside.

July 29, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

• 1. Magic Mike: Oh, you don't wanna know what I have to do for twenties.
  – Submitted by Rona K (7 months ago)
• 1. Dallas: The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
  – Submitted by Anggela M (11 months ago)
• 1. Magic Mike: Are we fighting? Is this our first fight?
  – Submitted by Stoney L (11 months ago)
• 1. Paige: Entrepreneur/stripper? Stripper/entrepreneur?
  2. Magic Mike: Either one.
  3. Paige: I was hoping this was all a joke.
  4. Magic Mike: It is pretty funny.
  – Submitted by Neal B (11 months ago)
• 1. Magic Mike: Distressed? [slams huge wad of cash on bank clerk's desk] Does THIS look like distressed?
  – Submitted by C S (11 months ago)
• 1. Dallas: You are the husband they've never had, you are the dream guy they've never came along.
  – Submitted by Arian B (11 months ago)

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