What thrilled me most about watching XXL was not necessarily what happened onscreen-it's what happened in the audience.

| Feb 3, 2021

It's fun. Magic Mike XXL moves along at a brisk clip, leaning into all the absurdities of its premise and giggling all the way. It's the cinematic equivalent of an afternoon spent drinking beer on the beach. Everyone's having a good time.

| Jun 16, 2017

Magic Mike XXL sort of plays like the lesser sequel to the movie we all thought the original would be.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 10, 2016

If the film looks and moves like a Soderbergh movie, it has a different feel than the original; it's lighter, for good and ill, an encore without much of an agenda.

| May 28, 2016

Magic Mike XXL is the cinematic inverse to Magic Mike, swapping out the drama for wild, blazing cuts at physical comedy and leaving behind the first film's dark aches for a friendly happiness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2015

[Magic Mike XXL] has an easy, engaging flow, at once natural and dreamlike.

| Aug 14, 2015

It's a reinforcement of some elements of the first film, but also a departure in ways that make it more thoughtful than its predecessor without ever undermining its commitment to entertain.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2015

Except for the admirable testosterone on display that represents hours in the gym instead of the acting class, the rest of Magic Mike XXL is seriously stupid.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2015

Tatum's autobiographical experiences still feed into Reid Carolin's script, but the edge of the original has been lost, character playing second G-string to choreography and costume.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2015

If anything, better than its predecessor: looser, funnier, stranger, and vastly more subversive, a buddy road comedy that unexpectedly evolves into a celebration of female desire.

| Jul 3, 2015

Tatum has come a long way since his "Step Up" days (he was excellent in last year's "Foxcatcher"), but he makes a number of unfortunate choices here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0 | Jul 3, 2015

Magic Mike XXL has no underbelly: only spray-tanned abs.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2015

As I sat there laughing, I realized I wasn't only entertained. I was moved and exhilarated. Not since the days of peak Travolta and Dirty Dancing has a film so perfectly nailed something essential about movie lust

| Jul 2, 2015

Magic Mike XXL, barely bothers to scratch beneath the veneer of fake tan.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2015

However discursive-and repetitive-the movie may be, it delivers the fantasy goods of formidable male bodies in motion, and ups the fantasy ante by making the men as sensitive, self-doubting and nurturing as they are virile.

| Jul 2, 2015

There's nothing at stake - their destination is a convention, not a contest, and it's not even clear they'll get to keep the singles that invariably rain down when they do their thing.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 2, 2015

Magic Mike XXL might be tedious if gender-flipped because sexualised images are the norm when it comes to representations of women. They are not the norm for men.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2015

The movie is all tease and no release.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 2, 2015

It's an amusement-park ride. Fasten the safety belt, secure your purse, and get ready to scream.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2015

Magic Mike, XXL is a loose, shambling party bus-or party organic fro-yo food truck, to be more exact-and everyone's having a great time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 2, 2015