Variety
Provides just enough character and plot to validate the plentiful pecs and abundant buns that serve as its main attraction.
Full review
Magic Mike
Saucy comedy-drama set in the world of male strippers starring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's 11) and inspired by Tatum's real-world experience.
Mike (Tatum) is an entrepreneur by day. But at night he's the headliner in an all-male revue at Club Xquisite, run by Dallas (McConaughey). Seeing potential in a guy he calls the Kid (Alex Pettyfer), Mike takes the 19-year-old under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of male stripping and making easy money.
Less2012Rating: R16, contains offensive language, drug use & sexual themes110 minsUSA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Steven Soderbergh ('Ocean's Eleven', 'Traffic', 'Contagion', 'The Informant!')
- Writer:
- Reid Carolin
- Cast:
- Channing TatumAlex PettyferMatthew McConaugheyMatt BomerJoe ManganielloOlivia MunnMircea MonroeWendi McLendon-Covey
Magic Mike | Reviews
78%216 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
All reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
Total Film
Soderbergh lets his hair down with a frank, funny dramedy that bulges with humour, heart and smarts as McConaughey gives it everything he’s got, in a potentially gong-grabbing turn.
Full review
The New York Times
A smoothly distilled collaboration that balances Mr. Tatum's heat and charm with Mr. Soderbergh's cool, cinematic intelligence and ongoing preoccupations.
Full review
Roger Ebert
Starts as fun and grows steadily darker; Soderbergh and cast tell a realistic, vivid story.
Full review
Los Angeles Times
If Soderbergh had paid as much attention to relationship dynamics as he does to dance number mechanics, this film would have gotten closer to living up to the magic in its name.
Full review
Hollywood Reporter
Arguably the raunchiest, funniest and most enjoyably nonjudgmental American movie about selling sex since Boogie Nights, its obvious if considerably darker precursor.
Full review
Empire Magazine
This is terrific entertainment with a sideline in wry melancholia and testosterone-fuelled philosophy.
Full review
A.V. Club
Magic Mike looks great, and Soderbergh's offhand approach to composition cuts through some of the clichés.
Full reviewMagic Mike | Trailers
Magic Mike | Release Details
Magic Mike is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Neon and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.