Magic Mike

Theatrical Release Date: 2012 06 29 (USA)

UPC: 883929249275

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Profanity, Drug Content]

Summary: Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike stars Channing Tatum as the title character, an entrepreneur who works as a roofer and in several other occupations, but makes most of his money being the star attraction at Club Xquisite, a male strip joint in Tampa that fills every weekend night with drunken, horny women eager to slide dollar bills between hard-bodied dudes and the G-strings they wear. While on a roofing job, Mike meets Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a misfit college dropout who lost a football scholarship when he punched his coach, and he decides to teach the kid how to become an exotic dancer. Mike introduces Adam to Dallas (Matthew McConaughey), the owner of the club, and gets him onto the crew of regular performers. As Dallas plans a big move for the troupe, Mike tries to start his dream business, falls for Adam's sister, and sees Adam fall to the temptations of the stripper life. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Supporting Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Supporting Male – Independent Spirit Awards

Features: Blu-ray special features
Extended dance scenes: watch full-length dance scenes too hot for theaters
Dance play mode: play all dance sequences back to back
Plus: backstage on Magic Mike: from manscaping to hip shaking, Channing Tatum exposes the finer details of being a male stripper and the transformation that his costars McConaughey, Bomer and Manganiello went through to perfect the art of taking off their clothes

Magic Mike

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 10/23/2012

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DHMA null, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 110 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Magic Mike
1. Scene 1 [4:31]
2. Scene 2 [5:58]
3. Scene 3 [5:37]
4. Scene 4 [4:58]
5. Scene 5 [5:10]
6. Scene 6 [6:56]
7. Scene 7 [4:10]
8. Scene 8 [4:46]
9. Scene 9 [4:01]
10. Scene 10 [3:34]
11. Scene 11 [6:45]
12. Scene 12 [2:42]
13. Scene 13 [4:28]
14. Scene 14 [6:43]
15. Scene 15 [4:40]
16. Scene 16 [4:16]
17. Scene 17 [3:47]
18. Scene 18 [3:58]
19. Scene 19 [5:10]
20. Scene 20 [4:52]
21. Scene 21 [5:29]
22. Scene 22 [3:11]
23. Scene 23 [4:29]

Perry Seibert

Much of the talk surrounding director Steven Soderbergh in the months before the release of his male-stripper movie Magic Mike concerned the Palme d'Or winner's stated desire to quit filmmaking once and for all -- that he needed to get away and rethink his entire approach to directing. Magic Mike is many things, including his autobiographical expression of this longing to get out of the business. The movie stars Channing Tatum as the title character, an entrepreneur who works as a roofer and in several other occupations, but makes most of his money being the star attraction at Club Xquisite, a male strip joint in Tampa that fills every weekend night with drunken, horny women eager to slide dollar bills between hard-bodied dudes and the G-strings they wear. While on a roofing job, Mike meets Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a misfit college dropout who lost a football scholarship when he punched his coach, and he decides to teach the kid how to become an exotic dancer. Mike introduces Adam to Dallas (Matthew McConaughey), the owner of the club, and gets him onto the crew of regular performers. Much like he did with Contagion, Soderbergh spends the first half of Magic Mike giving you exactly the movie you expect -- in this case, a beefcake-laden tour of a sleazy and funny subculture that's like an old-school backstage-showbiz melodrama crossed with Chippendales. However, the most cerebral of A-list American directors has no interest in doing just that. Thanks to a solid script by Reid Carolin, Soderbergh continuously reminds us that every decision these characters make has to do with money. This is both a critique of capitalism -- showcasing its good and bad elements -- and a self-revealing explanation of why Soderbergh is done with moviemaking. Although Mike has a blast at his job and is paid well for it, his ultimate goal is to open his own furniture-design company. He wants to create unique pieces from found objects, but the demands of the marketplace -- and the various material benefits of rolling in dough -- make it hard for him to do more than just talk about this dream. As is usually the case, Soderbergh casts the film to perfection. Tatum has grown as an actor in the last few years, and his effortless charisma here opens up new possibilities for his career -- he proves he's capable of carrying a picture with more than just his remarkable physique. Cody Horn, who plays Adam's sister and a possible love interest for Mike, has a no-nonsense quality that seems earned by a woman with a brother as messed up as hers. And Pettyfer does a great job with his role as the hot-headed ing?nue seduced by sudden wealth, fame, and drugs. However, the pi?ce de r?sistance is McConaughey, an actor who was truly born to play a male stripper named Dallas. As the club owner, he's the symbol of capitalism's power -- he's positioning to open a bigger spot in Miami -- and glistens with sweat and smarm. He's a natural for the part, and he gets an amazing scene in which he teaches Adam how to do a pelvic thrust that will send young women to such levels of revelry that they won't be able to help themselves from forking over their cash. It's a very funny, deeply cynical spin on the traditional training sequence, and if this movie had come out in November instead of June, there would be Oscar buzz surrounding McConaughey (with that scene in particular providing the perfect highlight). This is far from the first time Soderbergh has made explicit connections between money and interpersonal relationships, nor is it the first time he's focused on people who command a lucrative payday for offering up their physical attributes. In many ways, Magic Mike feels like a big-budget, gender-flipped version of his micro-indie drama The Girlfriend Experience, which starred porn queen Sasha Grey as a high-end call girl who attempts to have a meaningful private life while being an expert at making her clients feel like the most special men on Earth during their brief time together. The focus here isn't so much on how Mike's career decisions affect his ability to connect with women, but on how his choices have led him astray from his own sense of himself -- how easily he's lived a lifestyle that no longer interests him. In that regard, one of the most enjoyable arcs in the film is Mike's relationship with Joanna (Olivia Munn), a grad student who treats Mike like a fellow traveler on a quest for erotic satisfaction. She has his number before he does, and the way their relationship develops reveals both to him and to us how far his real life is from the one he wants to be living. All this makes the movie sound like a heavy-handed drama, but Soderbergh's touch is mostly light and always entertaining. You're allowed to ogle these guys on-stage in various routines -- including one in which they start out dressed as soldiers that will put any jingoistic prudes in a tizzy trying to figure out how and why they're offended. Add to that Tatum's abundant charisma, as well as the overwhelming presence that is McConaughey finding heretofore unseen levels of narcissism, and what you've got is a smart movie that never fails to entertain the audience. What's so appealing about the film is how little bitterness Soderbergh has for this business. He could have easily fashioned something that would have been an attack on audiences for making him waste his time on such silly diversions, but there isn't a whiff of that at all. Mike isn't a martyr to success, just someone ready to start over. Magic Mike makes a perfect punctuation mark to end the career of a great director -- if in fact he really does walk away from it all. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Steven Soderbergh  Director 
Nick Wechsler  Producer 
Channing Tatum  Producer 
Gregory Jacobs  Producer 
Reid Carolin  Producer 
Reid Carolin  Screenwriter 
Channing Tatum  Actor 
Alex Pettyfer  Actor 
Matthew Bomer  Actor 
Joe Manganiello  Actor 
Matthew McConaughey  Actor 
Cody Horn  Actor 
Olivia Munn  Actor 
Riley Keough  Actor 
Kevin Nash  Actor 
Adam Rodriguez  Actor 
Gabriel Iglesias  Actor 
James Martin Kelly  Actor 
Reid Carolin  Actor 
Avery Camp  Actor 
George E. Sack Jr.  Actor 
Micaela Johnson  Actor 
Denise Vasi  Actor 
Camryn Grimes  Actor 
Kate Easton  Actor 
Asher Wallis  Actor 
Alison Faulk  Actor 
Catherine Lynn Stone  Actor 
Jennifer Skinner  Actor 
Vanessa Ryan  Actor 
Teresa Espinosa  Actor 
Betsy Brandt  Actor 
Monica Garcia  Actor 
Annette Houlihan Verdolino  Actor 
Candace Marie Celmer  Actor 
Lyss Remaly  Actor 
Jannel Diaz  Actor 
Mircea Monroe  Actor 
Maynard the Pig  Actor 
Caitlin Gerard  Actor 
Yari Deleon  Actor 
Cameron Banfield  Actor 
Michael Roark  Actor 
Keith Kurtz  Actor 
Marland Burke  Actor 
Ashley Hayes  Actor 

Country: USA