Get Outta da House Cinema 2023 - Magic Mike's Last Dance

The plot in Magic Mike's Last Dance is thinner than a cheap strippers g-string. Or thinner than the latest landing strip design for millennials waxed never regions.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Reid Carolin, and produced by Channing Tatum, surely this third instalment is the last time we will see Magic Mike grind on stage.

The Magic Mike trilogy, following Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015), brings back The Channing Tatum as the titular retired stripper, who leaves Florida for London to help a socialite (Salma Hayek Pinault) produce a stage play.

Originally intended to be digitally released onto HBO Max, Warner Bros. Pictures opted to give the film a theatrical release following strong test screenings. Magic Mike's Last Dance was released in the United States on February 10, 2023.Strong test screenings? Who was witnessing this 2023 trainwreck?

The first film was fun, the second was a bit try hard, the third, well really bad. I never saw the Magic Mike live show in Australia. However I feel like that along with a simple idea on a napkin helped create this nail in the coffin to the Magic Mike franchise.

Some scenes are super cringe. Some are just plan padding to give this a decent run time. I really feel this could have been a one hour TV special wrap up thing.

While there was a few girls giggling behind us in downtown Byron Bay, even the silence of a cinema wouldn't save this film.

It was kind of a sad last hurrah with some fun stripping/dancing. The song choices were also a little off with songs like the Dandy Warhols (whatever happened to them?) mixed with the class strip jam, Pony.

It would be hard to give this more than 1.5 stars. The diversity of the new strip squad was good. Time to hang up the thong Tatum.