Review of Magic Mike (2012) by Eric H — 13 Nov 2014

I am so sick and tired of hearing men bash this movie. I couldn't care less about the quantity of male strippers, even if there was a plethora of male nudity (which there was not.) There was probably an equal amount of scantily clad/naked women in the movie.

I'm not a prude, nor do I have some sort of issue with seeing men with their shirts off. Women are barraged with naked/half naked/sexed up female roles 99.9% of the time so I say...have your movie.

And I actually looked forward to seeing it, to find out if the film makers actually made a movie geared towards adult women that was worthy of all the constant hype. Nope. In fact, I would be upset or insulted if I were one of the women in the demographic that this film was aimed at.

The acting was terrible, the story was downright AWFUL, the script was deplorable and the dance scenes were poor and there were hardly any of them. This felt slapped together to make a buck off an untapped market and they certainly accomplished that.

My opinion of this movie is based solely off someone who watches HUNDREDS of movies a year...anything and everything from mainstream, to festival, to animated, to foreign to this. The movie was simply bad.