Home Entertainment: ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Digital Review (2023)
20.11.2023 - 14:13
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In 2012 Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike arrived. The story of male strippers was based in part on lead actor Channing Tatum’s history as a dancer. Magic Mike was a resounding success at the box-office and earned itself a sequel, Magic Mike XXL, and a spin-off live dance show in London’s West End. Having sat out of directing duties for the sequel, Soderbergh is back for the third and final film in the series, Magic Mike’s Last Dance.After getting out of dancing at the end of Magic Mike XXL, Mike (Channing Tatum) is lured back to the stage once more.
Having lost his furniture company, due to complications during the pandemic, Mike now works private events as a bartender. His new work sees him cross paths with the wealthy Max (Salma Hayek Pinault). Max is in the midst of a separation and after hearing of Mike’s former profession, she asks him for a dance.
His work impresses her and she quickly whisks him across the pond from Miami to London to breathe life into the theatre show, ‘Isabel Ascende’, which she has recently acquired. Mike is tasked with creating something special within a month, can he rise to the occasion? Although all of the Magic Mike films have been far more seriously toned than their synopses have suggested, Magic Mike’s Last Dance is the driest. The moments of fun that made previous films so entertaining are hardly there and it will leave fans of the first two scratching their heads.
Soderbergh moves into a very different direction, leaving what the viewer has come to know behind. It’s a bold manoeuvre and one that sadly won’t pay off for many. It’s hard to say exactly what the magnus opus is here.
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