Magic Mike XXL

2015 Directed by Gregory Jacobs

Back to the grind.

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.

Channing Tatum Matt Bomer Joe Manganiello Kevin Nash Adam Rodríguez Jada Pinkett Smith Gabriel Iglesias Amber Heard Donald Glover Stephen Boss Michael Strahan Andie MacDowell Elizabeth Banks Juan Piedrahita Sharon Blackwood Alison Faulk Josh Diogo Vicky Vox Javier Madrid Dashaun Wesley Williams Carrie Anne Hunt Crystal Hunt Raeden Greer Lindsey Moser Savannah Southern-Smith Mel Chude Luke Broadlick Belle Eseoghene Omabele Julia Black Show All…

Alternative Titles

Magic Mike 02 Magic Mike Xxl, Magic Mike 2

drama comedy

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Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★ 19

"In the history of photography and film, getting the right image meant getting ones that conformed to the prevalent ideas of humanity. This included whiteness, of what colour—what range of hue—white people wanted white people to be....Movie lighting assume, privilege, and construct whiteness" —Richard Dyer, "Lighting For Whiteness"
The history of Hollywood in many ways is the history of the construction of whiteness. This goes beyond simply films that have depicted African Americans in stereotypes or margnizaled their roles in cinema but its material essence: celluloid was developed to favor light skin tones to dark skin tones. "In black-and-white films, cinematographers usually took white skin as the norm, employing lighting and laboratory practices that could reliably produce a certain image…
Review by Vadim Rizov ★★★★ 14

Magic Mike XXL is a putatively "modest"/"small" film — $14.8 million budget, 28-day shooting schedule, a shambling road movie meant to showcase extended musical numbers and largely excising the first film's recessionary panic. (Business is discussed, specifically the hustle of running a small business, but it's not the dominant throughline motivating everything as in the first, a line of inquiry Soderbergh pursued in Erin Brockovich, Bubble and The Girlfriend Experience, in ways that increasingly played like a meta-text about his own problems getting financing.) Where the original interpolated stripping sequences within Soderbergh's typically tight/obsessive editorial rhythms, XXL is very much meant to provide multiple, long, stand-alone showcases of raunchy choreographic acumen; comparison to the similarly chunky structure of Busby Berkeley…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 9

like staring into the abs of god.
completely different from the first film, it feels like an R-rated STEP UP sequel as shot by Soderbergh, and if that idea does nothing for you, don't bother. characters bounce off each other beautifully in more ways than one... the film is so content to have zero concrete stakes. more involved in the communion of spectacle and the binding force of entertainment. reminded me of a great martial arts film re: the skill with which it knows how to top itself without ever going numb... this thing plays the audience to perfection.
recently saw Les Blank's A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON, and though MMXXL is a bit too linear for the comparison…
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 4

my definition of feminism is hitting the bong while watching magic mike xxl
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 50

Dallas is gone, and so is The Kid. They've danced their way to China. Mike, still has some magic, but it's furniture making magic. But, when an outta the blue phone call from an old pal, wakes up Mike's inner pony; it's party time, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina style. Do the guys have what it takes to put on one last show? Magic Mike XXL is how you do a sequel. It's a road trip flick about life, love, and the magic of friendship. It's easy, breezy, light, and pure bliss.
I ain't gonna lie; I'm a fan of strippers. I like them on a pole. I like them on my lap. I like them on a table. I like…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 4

82
Still bowled over by how this utilizes human sexuality as a safe, healthy, exciting framework for the continually showcased, but never discussed, inclusiveness of each and every character. Its spirit resides in the joy of making a woman smile and the electricity of pulling off a complex dance routine, for sure, but it also allows itself to be comfortable in its own skin, never resorting to providing the goods without a hefty dose of respect and morale. Sexual and, more broadly, emotional satisfaction of women and men and any identity or gender matters! What a celebration; those Minnelli and Renoir comparisons aren't hyperbole.
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 1

RESPECTFUL MALE STRIPPERS ARE THE ULTIMATE FEMINIST ALLIES
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★½ 7

81/100
It's not often that I can just ditto somebody else's review, but ditto. Jettisons virtually everything I disliked about the original—the labored economic "subtext"; Pettyfer's bland initiate and his hackneyed descent into addiction; Cody Horn's embarrassing attempts to improvise dialogue—in favor of pure, unapologetic celebration, predicated on a rare onscreen acknowledgment of female sexual desire. The absence of conflict/drama/narrative clearly bothers a lot of folks, but I much prefer such elements to be missing rather than bungled, especially when the alternative is so damn joyous. (That both films were written by the same individual is so hard to believe that I'm not sure I actually do believe it.) Anyway, read Vadim's above-linked piece if you haven't already, as he…
Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 3

MAGIC MIKE XXL IS LIFE!
where the first Magic Mike was a tragedy on how easy it can be to trick/trap yourself with short-term thrills, XXL - not cohering to any sort of traditional structure or stakes - is practically a cinematic revolution of pure, unadulterated joy. it's an exciting and extravagant celebration of empathy and healthy, intimate communication between all sexes, races, body types etc, and easily one of the most genuinely gleeful and cathartic experiences i've had at the cinema this year.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 7

Now I understand why I should have
watched this a long fucking time ago.
Review by Coffee ★★★★★ 3

follows up one of the best films about the economic crisis ever by completely forgetting about any standard rules of filmmaking and screenwriting and acting as a raw, utterly perfect display of cinematic joy. sexuality as a tool for the good of the people, masculinity as a device to deliver it. this shit is the reason why we make movies. one of the best films of the 2010s, and maybe one of the best of all time
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 13

82/100
THIS is how you do a sequel. Magic Mike XXL is breathlessly jubilant, scrapping the tired rise/fall narrative from the first installment and instead focusing on the euphoric ways in which this culture satisfies their audience. With sizzling direction by Gregory Jacobs and spellbinding cinematography from Peter Andrews (*cough* Soderbergh *cough*), this franchise feels like it's just getting started in spite of its "one last ride" mentality.
The "plot" is this: Set throughout the Southern US, the gang is back, on their way to a stripper convention in Myrtle Beach. That's it. Magic Mike XXL stuns because of its characters, each full of interesting traits that propel individual arcs and side stories. It's one of the greatest "hang out"…

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Review by lottieisalterna ★★★★★

HEHEHEHEHE PILINHAS PARTE 2, só que este foi melhor porque entrou o Childish Gambino
Review by Ells ★★

Esse tem muito mais diálogo que o primeiro... não gostei. O show final foi bem legal, especialmente a dança do Mike com a Zoe. Um salve pra cena do posto de gasolina
Review by Amy Botelho ★★★★★

this movie has it all! its for the gays, its for the woman, for the MAN to LEARN. these strippers, sorry, male entertainers, are not shallow at all, they are people, they have dreams, they are good people AND they take molly, like, WHAtttttt?! SEXY AS HELL. my only issue is the length... its too short and it had an end. good lord, i want channing tatum to use my body like an towel and hub me all over and grab me and toss me to the side. DAMN!
Review by Dave K ★★★★

Actually a huge amount of fun.
Great to see Andie Mac. Haven't seen her face in a while.
Markedly wholesome content. The bros have some disagreements but work them out. Astounding levels of "dudes rock" in here.
Everybody's trying to make it in the American rat race, trying to scrape by, trying to keep the good vibes going, trying to love one another, and trying to achieve professional excellence.
The cartoonishness of the depictions of sexuality are interesting. It feels like it must be a distinctly American thing to commoditize and Disneyify human sexuality into this form.
The dancing is fun. The flirting is fun. The dudes are fun.
I liked the first Magic Mike a lot and avoided this for a long expecting it to be inferior to the original. It's sad McConaughey didn't make it out, but this is still an exceptional product.
Review by Joe Hughey ★★★½

two hours of bliss but is it too damn much to expect some actual nudity from a stripper movie? Joe Manganiello's gloriously sculpted ass is not enough. Channing's routine at the end does not disappoint though I felt bad for Amber Heard. Being danced/grinded upon and constantly picked up, shuffled around, flipped over, manhandled, dragged around stage, and held upside down looks like a full workout.
Review by Coffee ★★★★★ 3

follows up one of the best films about the economic crisis ever by completely forgetting about any standard rules of filmmaking and screenwriting and acting as a raw, utterly perfect display of cinematic joy. sexuality as a tool for the good of the people, masculinity as a device to deliver it. this shit is the reason why we make movies. one of the best films of the 2010s, and maybe one of the best of all time
Review by sineko ★½

mike said he wasn't going to this again but here we are.
Review by Mustafa ★★★★

Dudes! Rock!
Review by Jose Iñigo ★★★★½

As someone who was born with male genitalia, I feel like it's illegal that I enjoyed this way too much.
Review by rogdie ★★½

Channing Tatum is back in his role as Mike, the male entertainer from Magic Mike. After quitting the stripper scene at the end of the first movie, he went on to live with his girlfriend and open a carpenter business. Now a few years later, his life is in tatters, as he doesn't make ends meet and his girlfriend has left him. So he gets together with his friends from the stripper group to go on one final tour before everyone goes his own way. Candy entertainment for women again, as there are a lot of dancing sequences with the male actors stripping down, I guess that is why Jada Pinkett Smith, Andie McDowell, Elizabeth Banks and Amber Heard signed on for this movie. The story again is secondary and definitely not adequate enough to be remembered. A waste of time. 4,8/10
Review by vitoria ★★★★½

as martin scorsese once said: cinema at it's finest. there's none like it.
Review by Bringit ★½

Amber Heard that this movie was in the make and she wanted to get Depp in that dick.