Magic Mike XXL: 'A Shrine To Channing Tatum'

The bonds between the male performers give it the soap-operatic feel of an XY-chromosome Steel Magnolias. As such, it may be either the gayest straight film ever made, or the straightest gay one. And it doesn't care either way. When the team – now simply dubbed 'Resurrection' – get on stage to strut their stuff, they do so with equal, backslapping oomph whether it’s a drag-revue bar, where they’re queening it up with Carmen Miranda-style fruit hats, or in the nominally hetero context of the all-clapping, all-screaming, all-female finale. The name of the game, the gold somewhere over their rainbow, is a “tsunami of dollar bills”...

Tim Robey gets a bit hot and bothered reviewing Magic Mike XXL for the Daily Telegraph.

Somewhat unusually, our Tim begins by reviewing the 'teaser trailer', which he seemed rather taken with, watch it here.

PS Here's Magic Mike - The Honest Trailer for the LOLZ!

Und! Here's the great J Bryan Lowder on the fillum's 'perfectly sculpted gay pandering'.

Magic Mike: New Queer's Cinema

"The reviews have been almost universal in the gender-coding of their recommendations. "Ladies are gonna love Magic Mike," enthused Variety's Peter Debruge. "Should rake in girl and gay dollars on the strength of its ample man candy alone" said David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter.Sure enough, The New York Times reported that the film has been playing at Clearview Chelsea cinemas to crowds of shirtless gay men showing off their chiseled torsos while patrons shoved dollar bills down their pants. They found one straight man in the audience who had heard it was "a critique of capitalism," he said. "That caught me more. I'm interested in ladies, not men."

Tom Shone writing for The Guardian's Film Blog.
He comes out as "going queer for the movies" and continues; "Nor is the sight of Leonardo DiCaprio in a tux the only thing that floats my boat. For as long as I can remember, I've been pretty much bisexual at the movies. I swing both ways. I drink from both taps. Last year I was, like everyone else, gaga for Gosling after that elevator kiss with Carey Mulligan in Drive. The year before that, The Kids Are Alright brought my 10-year-old Mark Ruffalo crush out of hibernation. A year previous it was James Franco, the generous Adonis of Milk, tenderly smooching with Sean Penn in long-shot from an first-storey window. Bliss...."

PS A - rather brief - sort-of companion piece on male nudity on the big screen. 
A reader comments; "Think I'll just stick with normal gay porn. The actings better for a start.

"Also Channing Tatum face seems to have a been constructed entirely from elbows."