But by travelling from Tampa to Myrtle Beach, Magic Mike XXL shines its light on Southeastern tourist spots that never get the pedastal in Hollywood movies. Several sequels follow up a successful entry by taking the act on the road. It bucks the sequel rut by delivering something totally different Here are three reasons why Magic Mike XXL is different from its predecessor… and actually better. The sequel shifts gears and shows off even newer sides of both its leading man, his supporting crew, and the franchise, as a whole. Magic Mike showed off different tools in Tatum’s box (gross, ladies, clean it up). But in the process, Mike changed the way audiences (and critics) viewed Channing Tatum, who toiled in generic genre fare like The Eagle, Dear John and the underrated The Vow up until that point.
Yes, it played to its obvious female audience with its titillating male-dance sequences. I liked Steven Soderbergh’s surprise 2012 hit Magic Mike.
But my heart remembers the hilarious scene of Joe Manganiello strip-teasing a Pepsi machine to try and make a convenience store clerk smile, and I know that Magic Mike XXL is the right recommendation. When friends ask me which movie they are supposed to see this holiday weekend, the testosterone in me is supposed to point them toward Terminator: Genisys. Or maybe it’s just uncouth for me to talk about it aloud… to everyone I bump in to. As a straight male, I’m probably not supposed to like Magic Mike XXL as much as I did.
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