Magic Mike (2012)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 110m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey
Synopsis:
An entrepreneurial thirty-something guy on the Florida strip works as a male dancer at weekends, while working in construction during the daytime. He takes under his wing a young hotheaded no-hoper, introducing him to the scene, but ultimately comes to look at what he does and the lifestyle that goes with it as less a means than an end.
Review:
Toned bodies, alcohol and substance abuse, abundant leisure time and easy sex, what's not to like? At least, one could be forgiven for thinking that, watching much of this movie. (Apart from the first scene we don't see the Tatum character do a stroke of actual work.) But no, of course it is a vacuous lifestyle, and no girl is going to take you seriously, and gradually our hero wakes up to that because he sees his protégé falling hook, line and sinker for it, and because he is interested in his sister. It could be gambling, gunslinging, racing fast cars, being a punk like Terry Malloy, we have been here countless times before, but rarely in the guise of such an aimless, mumbled piece of storytelling as this.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 110m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey
Synopsis:
An entrepreneurial thirty-something guy on the Florida strip works as a male dancer at weekends, while working in construction during the daytime. He takes under his wing a young hotheaded no-hoper, introducing him to the scene, but ultimately comes to look at what he does and the lifestyle that goes with it as less a means than an end.
Review:
Toned bodies, alcohol and substance abuse, abundant leisure time and easy sex, what's not to like? At least, one could be forgiven for thinking that, watching much of this movie. (Apart from the first scene we don't see the Tatum character do a stroke of actual work.) But no, of course it is a vacuous lifestyle, and no girl is going to take you seriously, and gradually our hero wakes up to that because he sees his protégé falling hook, line and sinker for it, and because he is interested in his sister. It could be gambling, gunslinging, racing fast cars, being a punk like Terry Malloy, we have been here countless times before, but rarely in the guise of such an aimless, mumbled piece of storytelling as this.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 110m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey
Synopsis:
An entrepreneurial thirty-something guy on the Florida strip works as a male dancer at weekends, while working in construction during the daytime. He takes under his wing a young hotheaded no-hoper, introducing him to the scene, but ultimately comes to look at what he does and the lifestyle that goes with it as less a means than an end.
Review:
Toned bodies, alcohol and substance abuse, abundant leisure time and easy sex, what's not to like? At least, one could be forgiven for thinking that, watching much of this movie. (Apart from the first scene we don't see the Tatum character do a stroke of actual work.) But no, of course it is a vacuous lifestyle, and no girl is going to take you seriously, and gradually our hero wakes up to that because he sees his protégé falling hook, line and sinker for it, and because he is interested in his sister. It could be gambling, gunslinging, racing fast cars, being a punk like Terry Malloy, we have been here countless times before, but rarely in the guise of such an aimless, mumbled piece of storytelling as this.