Artistic Licence: Magic Mike’s blow for equal objectification
By the time you read this article, it will be done: I will have sat in the audience at a preview screening of Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 hit Magic Mike, and I will almost certainly have thoroughly enjoyed myself. Magic Mik
It’s not the first flick this summer to be aimed squarely at a female audience (Fifty Shades of Grey has been the marquee name to date) and it won’t be the last. But Magic Mike is an honest-to-goodness, bare-bones story about the delectation of male flesh. I’m sure there’s a plot somewhere, but reviewers so far have been too distracted by Channing ...
