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* LGBTFanbase: A movie about male strippers is bound to pick up a couple of gay male fans.
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* FridgeBrilliance: If you watch one of the first dance montages, you can visibly see that Adam is out of sync with the rest of the dancers, doesn't put as much passion into the moves and frequently comes in too early or too late compared to the others. A good way of averting InformedAbility and showing Adam's inexperience.
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** If you watch one of the first dance montages, you can visibly see that Adam is out of sync with the rest of the dancers, doesn't put as much passion into the moves and frequently comes in too early or too late compared to the others. A good way of averting InformedAbility and showing Adam'sinexperience.inexperience.
** If you do the math and the film takes place the same year it was released (2012), Mike probably got into stripping around the time of or right before the 2008 recession. Which of course massively explains his obsession with gathering enough money before he can start his business.
** If you watch one of the first dance montages, you can visibly see that Adam is out of sync with the rest of the dancers, doesn't put as much passion into the moves and frequently comes in too early or too late compared to the others. A good way of averting InformedAbility and showing Adam's
** If you do the math and the film takes place the same year it was released (2012), Mike probably got into stripping around the time of or right before the 2008 recession. Which of course massively explains his obsession with gathering enough money before he can start his business.
* MemeticMutation: The words 'Magic Mike' are now used whenever there's a male stripper around.
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* TheScrappy: Brooke is not well liked by viewers, due to being a PerpetualFrowner and some feeling she is too judgemental with regards to how Mike and Adam make their money. Some are left wondering why Mike is even attracted to her.
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* TheScrappy: Brooke is not well liked by viewers, due to being a PerpetualFrowner and some feeling she is too judgemental with regards to how Mike and Adam make their money. Some are left wondering why Mike is even attracted to her. No one really minds their offscreen break-up in between movies.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Many were left wondering why Wrestling/KevinNash of all people was in the movie. Especially given his knee problems meant that he couldn't do much of the dancing, and needed a special knee brace.
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Linking to this page isn't supposed to happen any more, not even for YMMV examples. If it's in-universe, it's the Fetish trope.
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* FetishFuel: Men in uniforms, of all the different types.
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* PeripheryDemographic: The sequel, ''Magic Mike XXL'', has various dudes that enjoy it. In fact, WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann pointed out that he knew more dudes who liked that film about male strippers than females. Creator/ChanningTatum has actually said he pitched it as a BuddyPicture road movie in order to get more males to see it.
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* PeripheryDemographic: The sequel, ''Magic Mike XXL'', has various dudes that enjoy it. In fact, WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann Creator/ChrisStuckmann pointed out that he knew more dudes who liked that film about male strippers than females. Creator/ChanningTatum has actually said he pitched it as a BuddyPicture road movie in order to get more males to see it.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: It's pretty much written into the film whether Adam would have been corrupted with or without his foray into the stripping world. Brooke seems to think so anyway, but he probably wouldn't have had as much money if he wasn't stripping.
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** It's pretty much written into the film whether Adam would have been corrupted with or without his foray into the stripping world. Brooke seems to think so anyway, but he probably wouldn't have had as much money if he wasn'tstripping.stripping.
** Brooke and her attitude towards the stripping. On the one hand, it's hard not to see her as a prude who can be a little judgemental - especially since she looks down on Mike once she finds out he's a stripper. On the other, it seems as if she's more afraid of the potential bad influences on her brother - as the last straw for her is [[spoiler: when Adam nearly overdoses]].
** It's pretty much written into the film whether Adam would have been corrupted with or without his foray into the stripping world. Brooke seems to think so anyway, but he probably wouldn't have had as much money if he wasn't
** Brooke and her attitude towards the stripping. On the one hand, it's hard not to see her as a prude who can be a little judgemental - especially since she looks down on Mike once she finds out he's a stripper. On the other, it seems as if she's more afraid of the potential bad influences on her brother - as the last straw for her is [[spoiler: when Adam nearly overdoses]].
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* TheWoobie: Although he's a cheerful guy, it's gradually revealed that Mike is quite a Woobie. He only got into stripping as a way to fund other projects he wants to do - but he struggles to get loans because of his stripping. At thirty years old, he wants to escape this world but doesn't seem to know how to. His little rant to Brooke shows just how vulnerable he really is.
--> "I'm not my god damn job! It's what I do but it's not who I am!"
--> "I'm not my god damn job! It's what I do but it's not who I am!"
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* TheScrappy: Brooke is not well liked by viewers, due to being a PerpetualFrowner and some feeling she is too judgemental with regards to how Mike and Adam make their money. Some are left wondering why Mike is even attracted to her.
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* PeripheryDemographic: The sequel, ''Magic Mike XXL'', has various dudes that enjoy it. In fact, WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann pointed out that he knew more dudes who liked that film about male strippers than females.
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* CounterpartComparison: Many compared the movie to ''{{Film/Showgirls}}'', or at least what that was originally envisioned as (a proto-feminist commentary on the lives of Vegas showgirls). WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick called the movie "what ''Showgirls'' was trying to be".
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* FetishRetardant: As there's a ''lot'' of stripping in this movie, at some points it can become uncomfortable to watch - especially as it's gradually shown how empty Mike's life actually is.
* FridgeBrilliance: If you watch one of the first dance montages, you can visibly see that Adam is out of sync with the rest of the dancers, doesn't put as much passion into the moves and frequently comes in too early or too late compared to the others. A good way of averting InformedAbility and showing Adam's inexperience.
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* HypeBacklash: Understandable, given the heaps of praise the movie received. The opposite appears to have inspired the positive reaction in the first place - many expecting an ExcusePlot and ninety minutes of beefcake and getting a well-acted SliceOfLife about strippers in addition to the {{Fanservice}}.
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* AwardSnub: There was buzz about Matthew [=McConaughey=] getting astraight (or bi) female or possible Best Supporting Actor nomination but it didn't amount to anything. ''Many'' were furious when he wasn't nominated.
* BestKnownForTheFanservice:
** Considering it's known as "that movie with agay (or bi) male.lot of male strippers" a la ''Film/TheFullMonty'', some viewers are surprised when they learn that there's actually more to the movie than just stripping. The stripteasing scenes make up about seventeen minutes of the film's two hour running time. Of course the movie ''was'' heavily marketed around the {{Fanservice}} elements.
** A straighter example comes from Creator/OliviaMunn having a topless scene that lasts only about fifteen seconds.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer being the leads, most of the positive reception went to Matthew [=McConaughey=] for his spirited performance of Dallas.
* AwardSnub: There was buzz about Matthew [=McConaughey=] getting a
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** A straighter example comes from Creator/OliviaMunn having a topless scene that lasts only about fifteen seconds.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer being the leads, most of the positive reception went to Matthew [=McConaughey=] for his spirited performance of Dallas.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Adam and Mike's friendship deteriorating becomes harsher to watch with the knowledge that Alex Pettyfer and Channing Tatum didn't get along during filming.
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** Alex Pettyfer had mainly become known either for MrFanservice roles in {{Chick Flick}}s or else numerous Young Adult adaptations that flopped. He impressed many with his portrayal of a hard-drinking [[spoiler: eventual drug addict]]. He also appeared to have improved his FakeAmerican accent.
** None other than Creator/AnneHathaway claims she had this reaction to Matthew [=McConaughey=], and agreed enthusiastically with Christopher Nolan when he suggested casting him as the lead in ''{{Film/Interstellar}}''.
** For those who ignore the {{Fanservice}} aspect of his character, Channing Tatum shows that there's more to him than ''just'' that.
* HoYay: The men are all really close with each other, they frequently hug each other (often shirtless) and kiss each other affectionately on the head.
* HarsherInHindsight: Adam and Mike's friendship deteriorating becomes harsher to watch with the knowledge that Alex Pettyfer and Channing Tatum didn't get along during filming.
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** Alex Pettyfer had mainly become known either for MrFanservice roles in {{Chick Flick}}s or else numerous Young Adult adaptations that flopped. He impressed many with his portrayal of a hard-drinking [[spoiler: eventual drug addict]]. He also appeared to have improved his FakeAmerican accent.
** None other than Creator/AnneHathaway claims she had this reaction to Matthew [=McConaughey=], and agreed enthusiastically with Christopher Nolan when he suggested casting him as the lead in ''{{Film/Interstellar}}''.
** For those who ignore the {{Fanservice}} aspect of his character, Channing Tatum shows that there's more to him than ''just'' that.
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* PeripheryDemographic: ''Film/MagicMikeXXL'' has various dudes that enjoy it. In fact, WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann pointed out that he knew more dudes who liked that film about male strippers than females.
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** Though this was a big draw for the film, it could also be turned into criticism: though the first movie attempted to show that the world of male stripping (and by extension stripping in general) is rife with addiction and manipulation, most viewers complained that this demonstration of the darker side took away from the part that was fun ''for them,'' thus proving that most of the audience failed to pick up the message that problems in the entertainment industry (for men, at least) are ignored. This was so potent that the second film demolished most of this attempt to look at the dark side, thus ''proving'' one of the arguments of the first movie: that male strippers are seen as eye candy and their problems really ''don't'' matter to most.
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** Though this was a big draw for the film, it could also be turned into criticism: though the first movie attempted to show that the world of male stripping (and by extension stripping in general) is rife with addiction and manipulation, most viewers complained that this demonstration of the darker side took away from the part that was fun ''for them,'' thus proving that most of the audience failed to pick up the message that problems in the entertainment industry (for men, at least) are ignored. This was so potent that the second film demolished most of this attempt to look at the dark side, thus ''proving'' one of the arguments of the first movie: that male strippers are seen as eye candy and their problems really ''don't'' matter to most.
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* PeripheryDemographic: Magic Mike [=XXL=] has various dudes that enjoy it. In fact, WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann pointed out that he knew more dudes who liked that film about male strippers than females.
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* DecoyProtagonist: With almost the same screen time as Tatum (Mike), Pettyfer's character Adam seems like the central character, but later on the movie does a good job of slowly focusing on Mike.
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* DecoyProtagonist: With almost the same screen time as Tatum (Mike), Pettyfer's character Adam seems like the central character, but later on the movie does a good job of slowly focusing on Mike.
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* PlotDevice: A lot of the plot revolves around the actions of Adam, however compared to the other characters, he doesn't have much character development throughout the movie.
* PlotDevice: A lot of the plot revolves around the actions of Adam, however compared to the other characters, he doesn't have much character development throughout the movie.
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Nobody takes IMDB\'s ratings seriously.
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No shit, especially if you're a straight (or bi) female or a gay (or bi) male.
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