Magic Mike Reviews
Badass Digest
The sexy mischief and the darkness and the earnest character beats all fit together in one terrifically entertaining, perfectly pitched success.
Daily Star
Raucous, funny and disgracefully entertaining.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film4
Musings on the nature of capitalism wrapped in a very pretty package ... Magic Mike is a film for adventurous audiences of all persuasions.
Concrete Playground
Some wildly entertaining dancing (and stripping) underscores several impressive performances.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Aisle Seat
Steven Soderbergh has made a movie that works as both intimate character study and party film.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
ScreenRant
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).
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Aristocrat
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
We Got This Covered
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.
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| Original Score: 7.5/10
FoxNews.com
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.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Contactmusic.com
Soderbergh lets scenes develop in a raw, natural way that makes the stripping scenes hilariously entertaining to watch
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
CraveOnline
It's "Showgirls" for girls, but with its camp knob tuned to a much more tolerable and skilled frequency... It's pretty awesome
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
Paste Magazine
Magic Mike is just fun, and it's fun because it's good.
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| Original Score: 7.6/10
Movies.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Matt's Movie Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
sbs.com.au
As Mike, Tatum is a pillar of integrity, a hard-working stud with his eyes on the end game.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sacramento News & Review
... the director, the unpredictable Steven Soderbergh, gives the clichés a surface gloss of credibility.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ABC Radio (Australia)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Popcorn Junkie
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
