MagicMike's Last Dance sends its franchise out on a fun, if slight, note. The Salma Hayek Pinault and ChanningTatum-led film is now playing in theaters.
Magic Mike's Last Dance Score Details “Magic Mike's Last Dance never matches the exuberant heights of its 2015 predecessor, but it does still manage to deliver a fun, well-choreographed romantic fantasy.” Pros Cons Not many Hollywood franchises have evolved as much as the Magic Mike series.
When Magic Mike’s Last Dance begins, its eponymous stripper-turned-craftsman, Mike Lane , has fallen on hard times. Opening narration informs us that the furniture store he’d spent both Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL obsessing over was effectively shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. That unfortunate twist of fate forced Mike to go back to being a full-time gig worker.
To call the film’s story a loose continuation of what’s come before it would be a massive understatement. Outside of Tatum’s Mike Lane, Magic Mike’s Last Dance ultimately has little in common with its 2012 and 2015 predecessors. On the one hand, that aspect of the film allows it to feel freely experimental in a way that so many mainstream Hollywood sequels aren’t allowed to nowadays.
From their first very scene together, Hayek Pinault and Tatum are able to conjure a sexual chemistry together that helps many of Magic Mike’s Last Dance’s initial sequences pop. Hayek Pinault, in particular, doesn’t let the opportunity to play a confident and passionate character like Maxandra pass her by. She practically owns Magic Mike’s Last Dance from the moment she walks on screen for the first time.
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