Magic Mike

Work all day. Work it all night.

Soderbergh takes another look at the struggles of Working Class America, while providing an eyeful for female viewers. Set in the world of male strippers, we follow the eponymous Mike as he takes a young dancer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money. Most of what you pay for is in the opening scenes, whereafter the film morphs darker.

113 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Drug abuse).
Comedy, Drama, Sex.

Showtimes

My boobs are bigger than yours!

Credits

Cast	Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum, Olivia Munn, Alex Pettyfer, James Martin Kelly, Cody Horn
Director	Steven Soderbergh
Screenplay	Reid Carolin
Music	Jack Rayner
Cinematography	Steven Soderbergh
Editing	Steven Soderbergh
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Ster-Kinekor
Made in	2012
Produced by	Nick Wechsler Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, comedy
Language	Frequent, strong
Nudity	Brief, fairly frequent
Sex	Brief, implied strongly, sexual dancing and sex talk
Violence	Infrequent, brief, mild impact
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Frequent use of alcohol and drugs, moderate to strong impact
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Times David Rooney The raunchiest, funniest and most enjoyably non-judgemental American movie about selling sex. Film has ample man candy.	15
Box Office Mark Olsen Audiences, particularly females, will likely come out for the ab-tastic hijinks, though once they've seen the fuller contours of the film, word of mouth may be a dicier proposition.	15
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Magic Mike starts as fun and grows steadily darker; Soderbergh and cast tell a realistic, vivid story. You get a feeling of realism and research.	15
ScreenIt C. Fuchs It's an okay film with a far too standard plotline -- courtesy of scribe Reid Carolin -- that should perform well with audience members looking for lots of cinematic beefcake for a change (compared to the usual parade of female skin in most movies -- although there's some of that here as well).	10
Metacritic.com 37 critics	15
Rottentomatoes critics 128 critics	14
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Magic Mike's sensitive direction, smart screenplay, and strong performances allows audiences to have their beefcake and eat it too.	16
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	14
Movie Review Intelligence 51 critics	14
What the People say
Internet 4529 Netizens	13
Average .. 71%	14