Magic Mike XXL (2015)

What a waste of my time!!!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

What I hoped to be an improvement over the first is a buddy trip without the fun or misadventures you'd expect. Adam, Brooke and Dallas are all gone by contrived or convenient circumstances since the actors refused another bomb shell. Once again the script felt lacking as the situation is more outrages then the first with all the strippers wanting one more show before they retire, Mike finding yet another love interest to woo, the dares the guys put each other through to prove they still have it in them to perform and having a rival from Mike's past never mentioned before.Channing promised this time around they wouldn't skip around getting the guys in the buff but this time even jockstrap and cheek shots are missing leaving only shirtless "Strippers" boring and bland. Once you seen abs you've seen them all and gets old quickly. The only nice thing I have to say is the dance routines and music were excellent. Yet the bad lighting made it hard to see in some shots almost rendering it a complete dud. Magic Mike wanted to go out with a big bang surpassing the original and yet it was a step down further in quality.I don't know if it was my tastes or the bad directions these movies are taking, but they just don't work in my opinion. Stick to the jump street series Tatum.

This film was so lame, badly written and just plain awful, I'm embarrassed for the poor actors. It's just sad to see such fine actors like Tatum and Manganiello reduced to having to take roles like this.Now you could probably let the bad "story" and dialogue slide if you got to see a lot of eye candy, but no. The film is supposed to be about hot male strippers---but we rarely see any of them naked (well, in a thong, close enough)! And when we do, the lighting is so dingy, the audience would have to wear night vision goggles to make out anything. The director also miscast a huge, ugly oaf as one of the strippers. Unbelievable. We want to see prime filet naked, not Shrek! What we do see a lot of---instead of hot naked guys---are the guys fully clothed blabbering about B.S.NOTE to future directors of male stripper movies: we want to see the hot actors naked. A. Lot. In good lighting. Thank you.

The whole story line behind this movie was awful; how did it ever get the green light. It's basically a road trip with male strippers to one last final shin dig. Of course they have car trouble and must reach out to an old acquaintance for help. They do this at a house full of male strippers. Then there's the girls they meet on the beach.There is one good scene in this and that is at the convenience store and involves smiling, a bottle of water, and Cheetos.The ending is their new dance routine at the stripper convention. It's eye candy, just not interesting.FINAL VERDICT: Don't watch the movie, just watch the convenience store scene online.

The only negative I had with this movie was the Tito character- his hair was horrible and I just didn't find his dancing that good. Tarzan's wasn't good either but hey I give him a break bc it's freakin Kevin Nash... I just finished watching this on HBO and I must say I'm tempted to purchase the DVD. Although I don't find him very sexy my opinion is quickly changed when Channing Tatum danced in 2 Particular scenes in this. His performance at the "pleasure house" had me wishing I was one of those women he danced on (OMG). Then there's the finale with him and Twitch (I have to pause and gather myself bc I found Twitch to b soooo Sexy in this, I mean his body is banging and Mmm can that man dance). Probably one of the sexiest scenes I've seen in awhile PERIOD. Although I don't care for that particular type of RnB (present day mostly) it worked perfectly in those 2 scenes because the bass was knocking, it just added to the overall sexy ass environment... I'm 27 and I've never been to a strip club, now I'm not sure I want to bc I'm afraid the talent won't b as Amazing as Channing or Twitch lol...