Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Lo sguardo di Soderbergh volge verso l’abisso: un paese in cui la crisi ha chiuso le porte ad ogni legittima speranza imprenditoriale, per qualcuno non resta che cominciare a vendere se stessi. Sotto la patina di una commedia scanzonata, Soderbergh finisce per dirci qualcosa di inquietante.
- Alan Bacchus @ Daily Film Dose
- Jason Bailey @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: There’s one true ’80s Cruise movie in theaters right now, and it ain’t ‘Rock of Ages’.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
- Daniel Carlson @ Pajiba
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
- Excerpt: Despite the corny premise, Soderbergh works overtime to avoid cliches
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: The standard line on Soderbergh’s career is that he takes studio jobs in order to fund his more personal films, a strategy that has often been described as a variation on “one for them, one for me.”[…]Magic Mike is one of the rare Soderbergh films which manages to create and maintain a satisfying mix of his crowd pleasing tendencies and his intellectual inquisitiveness without letting one envelope the other.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Surprising as it may seem, Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike” isn’t actually an uplifting affirmation of the virtues of female empowerment. Most of the women in this movie about a seasoned male stripper who takes a young protégé under his wing behave very badly. This is also a much grittier movie than the target audience is being led to expect from the trailers, which are selling cotton candy with pecs.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: Magic Mike looks at how the recent economic recession has created an economy of semantics, differentiating those with established credit from those who are deemed “distressed” or without credit. In effect, entrepreneurship takes a backseat to “legitimate” professions.
- Cynthia Fuchs @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: A stripper’s trite story.
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: Soderbergh and Tatum concurrently knock us out with some highly impressive moves both behind and in front of the camera.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A raunchy, R-rated beefcake feast.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Craig Kennedy @ Living in Cinema
- Kevin Laforest Laforest @ Montreal Film Journal
- Josh Larsen @ LarsenOnFilm.com
- Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: Among its many strengths, Magic Mike conveys the whirlwind effect that occurs when standards of obligation collide with transient pleasures.
- Piers Marchant @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Peter Martin @ Dallas Film Now
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: Like the best of Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike takes the simplest elements and breathes complexity into every stray corner.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Márcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
- [New – 1/4] | Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Steven Soderbergh’s guilty-pleasure for sexually frustrated housewives fails to accomplish its modest thematic aspirations.
- Frank Swietek @ oneguysopinion.com
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Phil Villarreal @ OKMagazine.com
