There was everything in the corporate plan, "Magic's Last Dance Mike", the third installment in the male rod franchise, created by director Steven Soderberg and Starvala Channing Tatum, will go directly to HBO Max. With a complete bow of Tatum's character, this creative team would make films for Spinoff and/or a series of other characters in this universe. The streaming service dreamed of a brand. And Soderberg, who had experience in a series through "Kr Street", "Unwritten" and "Nick", seemed open to the idea of ​​expanding the Magic Mike Universe.

Behind the scenes, however, Soderberg spied on a way to "record" the third installment of Magic Mike as a buzzing theater edition. Like Tatum recently said the varietyHe not only supported the impulse of his director, but wished to be given a theater mandate. "We made it less than the wrong object," Tatum said. "We had no traditional feeling about it and we focused on the Love -Bowl story."

Tatum's frustration from The disappointing "Magic of Mike's last dance" is understandable. I'm a huge fan of these films, but the third film felt strange hollow. Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinaul got involved in a wildly awkward Loveback link that exploded on stage was supposed to be a movie date to be seen, but while they definitely got flammable chemistry, the film pulls Kinda Flimsy. Why did Soderberg and Tatum had to compromise after throwing two insane hits available?

Magic Mike earned $ 167.2 million worldwide against $ 7m budget, While the beautiful "Magic Mike XXL" Raised $ 118 million against a slightly inflated budget of $ 15 million. The promise to see the young studs giving their clothes were a big draw for those on the market for that kind of libidus meat market. The visual glittering light was all muscles and bumps. So why convey this experience with a strip club in people's living rooms?

Like Soderberg said the variety In 2022, before the theater release of the third film, "It is certainly difficult to claim that this is not a film that is best seen in the theater, because we have the data. People, primarily women, went into packages, in large groups, to see the films" Magic Mike ".

Soderberg and Tatum got the theater green light late in the production process - too late, it seems to elevate the film visually. Soderberg had dreams of turning "Magic's last dance Mike" into deep personal musical extravagance as a masterpiece of Bob Fose "The Whole Jazz", but the director's fertility and tendency to cold, most likely prevented this in pre-production. The madness of the masterpiece of Fose (where he struck many years before his death) is simply not there.

Tatum is a real digger In the mold of the gene KellyAnd Soderberg avoided the skill of making a wonderful musical. They can make the spectacle of song and dance a compromise. Hit Mike de Luca and Pam Abdi in Brosner of Warner (the duo led by the theater edition of "Magic's Last Magic's Last Dance", which they did not take green light), threw the drink to the nine and let it ripple.