![]() In an attempt to, perhaps, say more than its predecessors and catch up with a culture that has perfected its articulation of gender oppression without doing much about it, Magic Mike’s Last Dance abandons the buddy-comedy and road-trip template for a girlboss romantic comedy. This third act of Mike’s adventure awkwardly strides into the politics of women’s pleasure and the constraints imposed by the patriarchy. Those grown-up tweeners are only getting older, and the franchise seems to be in the business of courting them - or who they think they are.Ĭast: Channing Tatum, Salma Hyek Pinault, Ayub Khan-Din, Jemelia George The latest installment of the Magic Mike Cinematic Universe - a franchise that includes the enjoyable Magic Mike, the raucous Magic Mike XXL, a reality television show called Finding Magic Mike and the tour Magic Mike Live - replaces its rollicking debauchery and subtle critique of capitalism with basic gender theory and vague eroticism. If you keep Tarzan’s nonchalant sentiment in mind, then you may be able to forgive the frustrating disappointment that is Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Tarzan (Kevin Nash) isn’t surprised: “All those tweeners are growing up, man - makes perfect sense.” “They’re doing a fucking Twilight routine and they’re mopping it up,” Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello) says, exasperated by the preceding group’s PG-13 gyrations and graceless body rolls. Near the end of 2015’s Magic Mike XXL, before putting on their sexiest show, our beloved troupe of strippers (or male entertainers, as they prefer to be called) hear the ecstatic cheers of the crowd on the other side of the curtain.
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