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THE Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked retired stripper Mike Lane’s furniture business dreams in ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ (2023).
Starring Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault, the third and final instalment of the ‘Magic Mike’ franchise finds
Mike (Tatum) making ends meet as a bartender for hire in Florida.
Our once gyrating protagonist’s luck changes when Hayek Pinault’s Maxandra ‘Max’ Mendoza, a wealthy socialite estranged from her British husband, offers Mike a hefty sum for a lap dance.
The dance, of course, is so sensual and satiating that Max gives Mike a ticket to London, a new gig and suggests a fee of US$60 000.
Yes, the premise is ridiculous but in the Magic Mike Universe where the job is catering to and satisfying women’s
desires, it plays okay and the audience is flung to the London theatre scene.
To annoy her estranged spouse but also to express her own creativity, Max hijacks a stuffy period piece at her husband’s theatre, essentially fires everyone and appoints Mike the new director. She wants the theatre and the women who come to watch Mike’s titillating new show to be transformed. Max wants them to have their desires articulated and met and for them to have their stories told.
The catch is Mike, a fish out of water, is no playwright or director and London’s conservative theatre powers, working at the behest of her husband, are bent on shutting the production down.
There’s a lot going on, much of it thinly wrought, oddly narrated and superficially socially conscious but, in a ‘Magic Mike’ movie, it succeeds in entertaining while thumbing through issues of sexual consent and the wild idea that women’s wants
may be as diverse and dynamic as men’s.
A comedic Steven Soderbergh movie in which we don’t really get to know the talented dancers plucked from obscurity to cater to the female gaze, a dance film and a closing chapter, ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ features a sometimes scene-stealing
Ayub Khan Din as Max’s butler and hangs heavily on Tatum and Hayek Pinault’s allure and star power.
Both middle aged and staging their comeback while taking another chance on love, ‘Magic Mike’ delivers a relatively refreshing and adequate finale as Tatum’s titular character takes a bow.
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