Magic Mike

• Magic Mike may be one of the most anticipated summer flicks of the season, but that doesnt mean that every critic is fawning over Channing Tatums abs movie.
(Huffington Post)
• Ooh, that Steven Soderbergh, so scandalous! The Magic Mike director tackles uncharted territory (by his standards, not by many a bachelorette partys) in his male-stripper dramedy, hitting theaters Friday (June 29).
(MTV)
• Magic Mike, the much-anticipated movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, is finally here. To find out if it's any good, Ramin Setoodeh went to see it with a panel of experts—five professional male strippers.
(Daily Beast)
• "Were trying to do our part to objectify men for the first time in movies.
(YAHOO!)
• A string of purple beads landed in my hands as soon as I arrived at the press screening of "Magic Mike." "It's for the bachelorette party," the publicist said.
(Staten Island Advance)
• Full disclosure: I'm a blusher and a prude. So sit me down next to feral man-candy Joe Manganiello and have me interview him about his new stripper movie – Magic Mike, in theaters today — and the result is the conversation you see below.
(Entertainment Weekly Online)
• From men taking off their shirts in 'Magic Mike' to Anastasia Steele embracing adventurous sex in '50 Shades of Grey' — this summer is all about leveling the playing field when it comes to sexually objectifying men and women in society.
(Hollywood Life (blog))
• From one heartthrob to another. Pineapple Express star James Franco recently praised Channing Tatum for baring both body and heart in Magic Mike, the film which was based loosely off of the 32-year-old actor's past as a male stripper.
(celebuzz.com)
• Waxed and thonged, music blasting, they move into the spotlight, grinding, gyrating, bending, flexing, to the gleeful wails of the crowd. Strippers, exotic dancers, determined to put on a show, to titillate, arouse.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• He is very likable in the role, as the Post's Ann Hornaday notes in her review of the film. But with all due respect to Channing Tatum, for my money, he is not the most compelling guy in "Magic Mike.
(Washington Post)