Film Preview: Magic Mike XXL (2015)

Poster

Poster #1

Additional posters can be found below.

Trailer Link

Release Date:

July 1, 2015

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “The continuing story of male stripper, Magic Mike.”

Poster: C / C (8) / C+

Review: (#1) A punny teaser that isn’t very clever, isn’t very subtle and isn’t very interesting.

(#2-#9) While a punny teaser isn’t that exciting, nor are the character designs that have emerged for the film. While they are certainly titillating and will undoubtedly appeal to the target demographic, they aren’t very inventive or clever, which makes them fitting, but boring.

(#10) A sort of consolidation of the prior designs. It works better because it exposes more of the variety of the film’s strippers than the prior efforts.

Trailer: C- / B

Review: (#1) Perhaps fans of the original will watch this and get all aflutter over it; however, casual observers are even less likely to find an interest as the music isn’t very interesting, and the junky shot selection is disjointed and easily dismissed.

(#2) They are heavily laying down the cheese on this sequel, and while I do love a good pun, sometimes it gets a bit distracting. However, with a faint look at the premise for the film and plenty of sweaty man action, the target demo will easily eat this trailer up.