Decker

I think this movie is a Ladies-Only hit. My wife went yesterday with a bunch of her girlfiriends. The show they wanted was already sold out, they had to go to the next showing. That was also sold out and my wife counted five men in the theater. Not counting the usher who took off his shirt for St Jude's fundraising(!). I think if that's any indication, this film will have a huge opening weekend, especially for a film with such limited appeal for male audiences.

cungar

Welcome to the anecdotal evidence post of the year.

hal9000

I'm going to see this with my wife this weekend and then later this week with about 15 co-workers (a mix of guys and girls) looks like a fun movie. It's Soderbergh... he's the possibly the most ADD director that I can think of, but I trust him because I like almost everything he does.

SPiRAL

One of my clients is Tatum's personal trainer, we went and saw it together. The place was packed with chicks hooting and yelling for the movie to start, and saying no more previews. The movie was actually pretty good, swift paced and never really dragged. McConaughey absolutely ruled ! Tall Guy Me, as far as Munn's nipples, they are dark and lovely.

RagingBull80

TGM

I hope that's a quote on the DVD cover!

Jules Winfield

It'll probably be more like "Channing Tatum's taint got me moist!"
-some random lady

The Bus

edstein

Apparently chicks are just as horny as guys, who knew.

PopcornTreeCt

It's like Twilight for adult women.

Deftones

50 shades of grey. enough said.

Dr. Mantle

I've got a female friend who wants to go, but if she didn't I wouldn't think twice about seeing it by myself. Soderbergh has won my respect many times over. How many other directors could make three films as different as Contagion, Haywire and Magic Mike is less than a year?

RichC2

Miike takashi?

Why So Blu?

Magic Mike made just under 40 million for the #2 spot and Ted made like 54 million for the weekend.

hal9000

Huh, wha... wait... isn't Twilight purely for women, both young and old?

Boba Fett

This.

Patman

I saw "Magic Mike" on the strength of Stephen Soderbergh as its director. If you've seen the trailers, Channing Tatus stars as Magic Mike, who's a male dancer/stripper at the Exquisite club, where it's mainly a female clientele looking to have a good time with male strippers putting on various show skits and involving audience participation. We're introduced to this world with the addition of newcomer, Adam (Alex Pettyfer), to the dance crew (comprising of other dancers played by Matthew Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Adam Rodriguez, and Kevin Nash), and Dallas (Matthew McConaghey) who runs the show and looking to expand from Tampa to Miami.

"Magic Mike" explores the corruption of Adam in this world's lifestyle, and some mild consequences of bad decisions. Mike is the veteran looking outside the life to something he can invest his energy and vision, and Dallas is the showrunner looking to keep the party going, even if he's approaching the golden years for such a profession, but still got some miles in the tank. Adam's sister Brooke (Cody Horn) is apprehensive of Adam's new friends, job, and Mike takes a shine to her, but also has his own casual relationship, mainly with Joanna (Olivia Munn).

Obviously, this movie is targetted to women looking to see well-built guys strutting their stuff in the dance club, and for the most part, the women in my audience appear to enjoy those segments. Soderbergh also knows that he needs to have a plotline running through the film, and while it's pretty basic, this low-budgeted approach allows for scenes to breath by using a single-take, not a lot of inter-cutting of scenes together, and it's just about burgeoning relationships, and also relationships crumbling due to either societal pressures, or financial ones. Tatum actually does okay in these extended scenes, some of it felt improvised or as natural under the condition of the scenes as it could be.

I give it 3 stars or a grade of B, but it's got a lot of eye candy directed towards the ladies in the audience.

RichC2

Something tells me Tom Cruise and Anderson Cooper were also fans.

The Bus

This opened a bit late in Australia, but I got a chance to see it last night.

If only Showgirls and Striptease had been this good. Soderbergh is a master, and this movie is about five times better than it reads on paper.

bluetoast

I saw this tonight, I thought it was pretty good. Great friendship between Adam and Mike. I liked the conversations Mike had with the sister as well.

Poink

The only thing that bothered me about the movie was half of Mike's dialog was "This job isn't who I am," yet all we really see him do outside of stripping is hanging out with his stripper friends and banging chicks. They could have devoted a tad more time to his furniture building or whatever, because it really did seem like he was living the typical lifestyle.

Timber

I think that was the point. The job is who he was. In his mind he had like 40 jobs or whatever but at the end of the day he was just a stripper.