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‘Magic Mike’ – What Critics Are Saying; Box Office Performance & A Play?

by on June 30, 2012

in Entertainment, movie reviews, movies

What critics are saying about Channing Tatum in 'Magic Mike'- Magic Mike is doing pretty good for itself this weekend at the box office.  It’s only Saturday morning and box office estimates are giving it around $50M+ weekend, easy.  And movie critics are finding the movie rather agreeable to boot.  Plus it must be tracking well enough already to have it being considered to be made into a Broadway musical!

Magic Mike is the male stripper movie inspired by Channing Tatum‘s time spent as an actual male stripper.  Director Steven Soderbergh directed this comedy-drama that also stars Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn and a huge assortment of eye candy for the female and gay male audience.

But what are critics saying about the movie?  Below are selected critics whom I know and over time have come to trust above and beyond all others in this world of movie reviewers.

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First up is ScreenRant‘s Kofi Outlaw.  Kofi has an intelligent and artful eye towards the movie medium and his reviews are approached with both the art of the film as well as the general movie-goer in mind:

He says

Being that it’s a creation of Steven Soderbergh (Contagion, Haywire), it should be no surprise that (like its titular character) Magic Mike is more than the superficial flesh-fest it may initially seem to be.

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‘Magic Mike’ – Something For The Ladies In The House!

by on June 16, 2012

in Entertainment, movies

'Magic Mike' movie posterThe plot synopsis for Magic Mike goes something like this:

“A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.”

But here’s a better movie description for Magic Mike:

Veteran stripper Magic Mike (Tatum) teaches a novice (Pettyfer) about stripping while at the same time, seeking a new lifestyle outside of stripping.  He seeks the help of his protégé’s sister (Horn).

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Magic Mike is from director Steven Soderbergh, whose “artsy” action movie Haywire , just left me a bit numb, but not from lack of story, but more from the substance of an artistically mindful eye.

So I’m not sure what to expect actually.  But I believe with Soderbergh behind the wheel, it could be much more than it appears, as far as a story goes.

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Add to that, that up until now, I’ve only seen short preview clips for the movie that seem to point directly at an all-skin movie, and I wasn’t holding my breath… but then I came across the preview clip below and suddenly I’m thinking, huh, there’s a story to this?

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‘Haywire’ Review

June 16, 2012

I finally got around to catching Haywire, and I have to say, it is an interesting movie, to say the least.  And thus, an overdue PPV movie review. Haywire stars Gina Carano as secret agent/black ops/ super soldier butt-kicker in a movie about a betrayed secret agent, mainly, her. Other cast includes appearances by Michael [...]

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