I won’t give away an early joke by saying what has become of the group’s founder and M.C., Dallas (McConaughey).

Mike’s handmade furniture business is succeeding, but only barely, when his old Kings of Tampa buddies phone to let him know they’ll be passing through town on their way to an annual strippers convention in Myrtle Beach. Magic Mike XXL picks up three years after the last installment. In the earlier movie, these customers were treated mostly as marks, silly young women to be picked up in bars and fleeced of their spring-break money this time out, they’re extolled as “queens” and “goddesses.” And unlike the first film, in which considerable attention was placed on the men’s own sexual gratification-think: Matt Bomer inviting others to partake of his wife’s “tits,” or Alex Pettyfer boasting that “I can fuck who I want to fuck”- Magic Mike XXL concerns itself overwhelmingly with the pleasure they offer their female customers. It’s a movie not about growing up but about recapturing youth, one in which the most cherished value is not responsibility but joy. Magic Mike XXL inverts this story in almost every particular. Over time, and with the help of a Good Woman, he realized that the Dark Temptations of Show Business (meaningless sex, drugs, greed, partying) were preventing him from becoming the Man He Wanted To Be.

Thirtyish Mike Lane (played by Channing Tatum and loosely based on his own experiences) was a self-described entrepreneur by day-his passion was crafting handmade furniture-and a sex-god stripper by night. The first Magic Mike was a well-told but fairly conventional coming-of-age story. Why Grocery Stores Have Tiny Kid-Size Carts Joe Pinsker

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