“Magic Mike,” released in the summer of 2012, was a musical fable for a moment of economic anxiety. And so the audience watching “Magic Mike XXL,” an outrageously entertaining sequel directed by Gregory Jacobs, is treated to a private, intimate performance, as Mike’s carpentry is turned into an athletic, erotic spectacle. As the saying doesn’t quite go: You can take the dude out of the dance, but you can’t take the dance out of the dude. The dream that beguiled him in “Magic Mike” - to quit the stripping game and work with his hands instead of his abs and his glutes - has come true.īut then, as Mike burns the midnight oil amid T squares and two-by-fours, he catches a beat from the music playing in the background and starts to move. He’s an entrepreneur with a fledgling custom-furniture business.
Though he’s still played by Channing Tatum, Mike is no longer the Magic Mike we met in the movie of that name a few years back. Alone in his workshop one night, Mike Lane receives a visit from the muse.
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