Who all here is secretly going to see Magic Mike this weekend?

[jasonluckydog]

Set in the world of male strippers, Mike takes a young dancer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

“Magic Mike”: Channing Tatum’s stripper romance

Steven Soderbergh's male-stripper saga "Magic Mike" may be the warmest and most romantic movie of his career

BY

ANDREW O'HEHIR

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CHANNING TATUM, MAGIC MIKE, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, MOVIES, OUR PICKS, SEX, STEVEN SODERBERGH

Channing Tatum (center) in "Magic Mike"

Count on Steven Soderbergh to turn a raunchy saga of ultra-beefcake male strippers and the women who love them into something unexpected — in this case, into what may be the warmest and most romantic movie of his career. Now, as those who are familiar with Soderbergh’s work over the last 23 years and 30 or so films will attest, praising him for warmth and romance is a little like proclaiming the nicest day of the year in Antarctica. Clear back to his era-defining indie hit “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” in 1989, this is a director obsessed with surfaces and reflections, with voyeurism and narcissism, with the way that human sexuality and the human body, once understood as realms of private experience, have become commodities.

“Magic Mike,” which was reportedly inspired by the real-life teen stripping career of good-natured star Channing Tatum (who also co-produced the movie), fits almost too perfectly into the Soderbergh catalogue. It’s close to being a gender-reversed, more audience-friendly remake of “The Girlfriend Experience,” his little-seen 2009 indie featuring porn star Sasha Grey as a high-end hooker. There are indeed plenty of strip-club dance numbers — in which Tatum proves suspiciously adept at the cheesed-out, pseudo-hip-hop choreography — and Matthew McConaughey gives a scene-stealing, award-worthy performance as the unctuous, perm-wearing club owner and dance coach. (I know I’m not alone in pronouncing that I’m enjoying McConaughey much more the second time around.) But “Magic Mike” is a more abstract and self-consciously artistic view of the male-stripper subculture than the marketing campaign suggests, and opening-weekend audiences eager for cheerful nastiness may find themselves baffled.

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I bet this film is a flop maybe makes 5 million this w/e

I dont want to go see it but like my gf is making me go see it....

NOT!!

ok

maybe.,

[Jase]

Wife wants to see it. I just roll my eyes. Told her if I go see that with her, she has to see some flick for t&a purposes only with me.

[Guest Bwood]

Haha my girl use to love Channing Tatum but she says she's over him now.

I know Matthew McConaughey is in it too and her mom loves him, so those two bimbos will probably go see it together.

[Guest Jerry Sandusky]

Tell her if she watches it you'll be at home watching a couple of co-eds go at it on P-P-V.

[Ivan The Awesome]

What the fug is this poo?

[Guest Bwood]

Tell her if she watches it you'll be at home watching a couple of co-eds go at it on P-P-V.

Or I could just get fudged up and have a slumber party with her and one of her bi-sexual friends.

[Guest Jerry Sandusky]

Or I could just get fudged up and have a slumber party with her and one of her bi-sexual friends.

Bi-sexual is a two way street. Might want to classify bi-sexual female friend.

[Guest Bwood]

;)

[Herbert The Love Bug]

I'm going with my cock out

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

I wanna see Ted.

[Guest Irv]

id rather tie my dick in a knot and attempt to piss my name in snow then watch that piece of poo movie.

[Anybodyhome]

Been many studies out there suggesting the vast majority of strippers are gay or bi-sexual... male and female strippers....

...and I'll bet the theaters are rooms full of screaming girls (and boys), just like the clubs...

[Guest]

uh, no. She can go with her friends, I don't care.

[Panthro]

Been many studies out there suggesting the vast majority of strippers are gay or bi-sexual... male and female strippers....

...and I'll bet the theaters are rooms full of screaming girls (and boys), just like the clubs...

I've heard that most gay porno stars are actually straight....one of my 2nd cousins is an example. He was on the streets and turned to porn to make ends meet.

This fall he is getting married to a lovely girl and works for a software company.

Female strippers...they aren't bi or gay because they all tell me they love me.