MagicMikesLastDance might be the clunkiest of this series, but Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh are having a ball with this final act. Our review:
Part of the beauty of the Magic Mike franchise—beyond the absurdly good-looking, ripped men grinding and dancing in a way that normal humans could never possibly do—is the malleability of the series to shift and change depending on the installment. The initial installment, 2012’s Magic Mike, was almost like a counterpart to Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, an occasionally serious look at the life of male strippers who utilize their erotic talents for economic gains.
As we first meet Mike in Last Dance, we see that strippers sometimes have to move beyond stripping. Since we last saw Mike, he's now 40, and while he finally opened the shop he'd always wanted, it closed during the pandemic, leaving him as a bartender in Miami. But Mike’s luck isn’t bad for long, as he soon meets Maxandra Mendoza , a wealthy socialite who first offers to pay him for sex, then settles to pay $6,000 for a dance, after learning that he’s a former stripper.
And while the first two films largely explored the camaraderie, fun, and humor that came from Mike hanging out with his group of stripper friends, Last Dance does away with that sort of friendship. Instead, we are presented a new group of dancers that Max and Mike are training for their new show, and while the film attempts to have the same amount of fun with them, these scenes often are little more than a tease.
Yet it really feels like Soderbergh is the one having fun here. During a montage of Max and Mike gathering new dancers for the show, Soderbergh sits back and lets these men show off their talents, and the truly insane ways they can move their bodies. In one particularly jarring moment, a dancer almost seems to fold himself in two, and Soderbergh gives us enough time to try and figure out how the hell this person is contorting their body in such a way.
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