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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Benohe on ninety six am. Ben,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Guard, make good to see you.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot, there are a certain crowd eagerly

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Speaker 1: anticipation the movie you're about talking about. Do you include

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Speaker 1: yourself in that? I didn't think so, Lass. Are you

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Speaker 1: prepared for us to put a dollar bill in your jockstrap? Yeah? Look,

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Speaker 1: let's see how this review. If you're enjoying the review,

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Speaker 1: you can slip some you slip some ones in there.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about Magic Mike's Last Dance, of course,

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Speaker 1: And it's all started back in twenty twelve with Steven

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Speaker 1: Soderberg's first Magic Mic movie, which was a huge success critically.

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Speaker 1: It was well received commercially. I think it made one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven million US dollars against the budget

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Speaker 1: of only seven million dollars. The budget was so low

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Speaker 1: because there was no special effects, just fifty bucks on

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Speaker 1: baby oil. Basically it was all roses to handle the crowd,

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Speaker 1: much on wardrobe and the start of that film, course,

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Speaker 1: which was Channing Tatum, and it was loosely based on

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Speaker 1: his own life, like people might not be aware that

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Speaker 1: he was once upon a time an eighteen year old

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Speaker 1: stripper working in Florida. So the Magic Mike story is

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Speaker 1: kind of the story of Channing Tatum's life. And it

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Speaker 1: also starred Matthew McConaughey, and that was kind of like

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Speaker 1: at the start of the mcconnaissance when he was making

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Speaker 1: his big comeback, and so everybody, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: liked Magic Mike. The first movie. It was fun, hot tunes,

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Speaker 1: hot bods, not you know, you could you could kind

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Speaker 1: of wax lyrical about what it had to say about

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Speaker 1: the American dream, but it was it was just a

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Speaker 1: bit of fun. Then there was a sequel a couple

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Speaker 1: of years later in twenty fifteen called Magic Mike xx L.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as per the title, it was extra

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Speaker 1: extra large and it was also extra extra stupid. It

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Speaker 1: was as it was not a good movie. It was

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Speaker 1: it just promising a lot. It just really leaned into

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Speaker 1: the silliness of the whole thing. This time he wasn't

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Speaker 1: in it. He wasn't in it, and it was just

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Speaker 1: like a whole sequence of really silly setups for these

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Speaker 1: kind of strips routines to happen, like Channel Tatum on

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Speaker 1: an angle grinder. It was a bit silly and so

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Speaker 1: then this third one basically exactly what it was and

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Speaker 1: the plot was similar. And so this this third installment

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Speaker 1: comes along, you know, and it's going to be the

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Speaker 1: final one. And I guess expectations are fairly low with

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Speaker 1: what Steven Soderberg was going to do, and in the

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Speaker 1: end he's done something probably a little bit unexpected. It's

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Speaker 1: not really a Magic Mike movie, like I think, and

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Speaker 1: that's not necessarily a good thing because I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: as you said, least like these films have their audience, right,

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Speaker 1: it's probably girls nights out. It may be a date

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Speaker 1: night if you can drag your your other half along. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's sort of a thing. And so and people go

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Speaker 1: to the cinema, they have a bit of fun, listen

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Speaker 1: to some fun music, and that's about it, don't think

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Speaker 1: too And so this film, said a few years after

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Speaker 1: x x L Magic Mike Channing, Tatum's character is a

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Speaker 1: bit down on his luck. He wanted to be like

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Speaker 1: a bespoke furniture maker, but that business folded. Oh it's

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Speaker 1: random can image standing like a door noobby or something.

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Speaker 1: And anyway, so he's working as a bartender at this

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Speaker 1: charity event. The charity event is being run by Max Mendoza,

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Speaker 1: who's played by the Great Salamahayak, and she starts talking

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Speaker 1: to Mike at the bar, has a bit of an

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Speaker 1: interaction with him, and he sort of realizes that, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you know, she's going through some stuff. And so

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Speaker 1: then after the event's finished, she's called him into her

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Speaker 1: house and said, look, you know, like I'm going through

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Speaker 1: this divorce at the moment, my ex is this media tycoon,

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Speaker 1: feeling a bit bad about myself. I've kind of forgotten

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Speaker 1: how to have fun. I think the answer is maybe

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Speaker 1: just give me a lap dance. And Mike's like, nah, nah,

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Speaker 1: I don't do that sort of stuff anymore. And she's like,

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Speaker 1: what if I gave you six thousand dollars? And he's like,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm I'm back in the game. And so

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Speaker 1: then he does this. It's kind of a weird. It's

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Speaker 1: weird lap dances. It's very sensual. He uses some of

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Speaker 1: the furniture and the house, he holds her up against

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Speaker 1: the window. I'm not going to go into too much more,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, it was so so revelatory that that Max

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Speaker 1: has decided, you know what I need, I need to

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Speaker 1: fly Mike to London and have him be the director

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Speaker 1: of an all male review at this famous old theater,

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Speaker 1: which is really just a middle finger to her ex

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Speaker 1: husband who owns this famous theater. And she kind of

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Speaker 1: got it in a settlement. So she's going to like

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Speaker 1: scrap this this this acclaimed play like sort of Shakespeare

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Speaker 1: that was happening there, and she's gonna have strippers. Oh

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Speaker 1: basically stick to him. Yeah and so and so Mike,

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Speaker 1: you know, gets these ten male dancers from all from

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Speaker 1: all kind of genres of dance. He doesn't get any

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Speaker 1: of his old buddies. So this is the thing, right,

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Speaker 1: you'd think if this was any normal kind of Magic

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Speaker 1: Mike sequel, you think you grab all those guys from

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Speaker 1: the earlier movies, bring them all back for one last hurrah. No, instead,

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Speaker 1: they've got avant garde dancers, ballet dancers, dancers, and it

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Speaker 1: kind of is a legitimate dance movie with no stripping.

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Speaker 1: Like sure, they played pony By genuine they definitely played that,

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Speaker 1: but no one takes no one takes No one takes

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Speaker 1: their pants off in this movie. Really a couple of

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Speaker 1: shirts come off, that's it. And instead, instead it's kind

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Speaker 1: of pitched as this pro feminist film where Selma Hayak's

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Speaker 1: character is same story. Yes, it's yeah kind of, and

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Speaker 1: so she's she's kind of in charge, saying it's all

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Speaker 1: about showing women that they can have anything that they

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Speaker 1: want and they should demand more from life, which is

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Speaker 1: a great sentiment except for the fact she wanted Except

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Speaker 1: for the fact that the film was written by dude,

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Speaker 1: directed by dude. Yeah, pretty sure. No women were consulted

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Speaker 1: in the making of this. You know of this feminist storyline,

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Speaker 1: which is never really a good starting point when you

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Speaker 1: don't ask women what they want, like a dog's breakfast. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so that was the thing. So unfortunately, you know you've

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Speaker 1: got this. It's got this high aspirations. But also the

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Speaker 1: basic premise is you can save the world with one

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Speaker 1: great scripture. Yes, be what it is. Leave that for

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Speaker 1: the women talking movie that's coming up that I'm sure. No, Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: everyone keeps their pants on. I have one question. Do

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Speaker 1: they dance to Last Dance by Donna Summer? No? Oh

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Speaker 1: really no, no, not even not even nelling it's in here.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So unfortunately, Salma Hike is great. The dance sequence,

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Speaker 1: which is like the last sort of twenty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the film. Awesome, like really really good, but but

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Speaker 1: it steps. It's yeah, okay, how many belts remaining buckled?

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Speaker 1: Do you give it? I'm going to keep two and

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Speaker 1: a half buckles belted and a half. There might be

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Speaker 1: some disappointed hens and guests, never mind. Thanks Ben,