{"id":16276,"date":"2023-02-10T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=16276"},"modified":"2023-04-10T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:05:44","slug":"magic-mikes-last-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/magic-mikes-last-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Mike’s Last Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Despite the amazing choreography, the story for this chick-bait film is pretty thin. It\u2019s more of a fairy tale than anything remotely believable from start to finish. Director Steven Soderbergh is back for this three-quel, zeroing in on the twists, turns, thrusts and contortions of the likable Channing Tatum and his band of grinding, undulating 12-pack ab dancers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Down on his luck, Mike Lane (Channing), is working as a bartender at a wealthy socialite\u2019s party. Maxandra Mendoza (Salma Hayek Pinault) takes notice and asks him to come upstairs for a private audience and the dance games begin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit goes to Salma Hayek who has a body that doesn\u2019t quit as well, and she\u2019s more stunning than ever. We just didn\u2019t think of her as a romantic match for Channing, even though they tried so hard to make it work, crawling all over each other in the first pulsating dance.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16294″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16288″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16293″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Channing Tatum is a magnificent example of\u00a0 <\/span>sexy, pliable, and strong. It was great fun watching him show off his body, but also his comedic acting with Sandra Bullock in 2022\u2019s The Lost City<\/i>. He was good in the first two Magic Mike<\/i> Films and in Dog<\/i>. He\u2019s a competent actor with a calm, engaging, approachable demeanor, even when he\u2019s going through extraordinary contortions dancing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately this film becomes a husband\/wife revenge story trying to save a theater in London Max wants to put up as a racy, hit production to show up her rich philandering husband. It\u2019s all about putting on a show to make money. Welcome to The Producers. <\/i>As Maxandra, Hayek definitely plays a gal in charge in a man\u2019s world throwing around money and giving orders. She\u2019s a ball buster, but the chemistry with Channing just doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Writer Reid Carolin, (Magic Mike and XXL, Dog, White House Down<\/em>) \u00a0doesn\u2019t do a bad job trying to make the premise believable. There doesn\u2019t need to be much dialogue because there is so much dancing. There\u2019s nothing terribly exciting about the dialogue there is. It\u2019s just more sappy than clever.<\/p>\n

Channing Tatum picking up and throwing Hayak all over himself is entertaining to a point. But then, Soderbergh intercuts flashbacks of their dance in the beginning of the film as a sort of look back at the start of their emotional relationship. It\u2019s very contrived.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16290″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16295″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16289″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The absolute best part of this film is the choreography by Alison Faulk and Luke Broadlick. Seeing Channing train his band of male dancers and then perform them in sync is well done. But the most impressive choreography and a welcome change in the film comes toward the grand finale. Watching Channing and his ballet partner Kylie Shea, glide, slide, and writhe across a soaking wet stage is skillfully executed with more passion than we see between he and Salma Hayek. There was more emotion in this section than in any other part of the film. The remainder of the movie sort of drops off the edge of the stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We were hoping for so much more comedy and heart tugging emotion from this final installment. Channing and his dancers hit their marks, but the story is lacking. Time for Magic Mike, not Channing, to hang up his shoes. While female audiences will eat up the eye-candy, this last dance has hit its last gasp.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Pictures\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>1 Hour 52 Minutes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>R<\/strong><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/HR7yY7UbShA” el_width=”80″ align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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