Why is it when an advert is misleading you can complain to the Advertising Standards Authority, but when a film trailer completely mis-sells their film all you can do is ponder the wasted price of admission?
I'm hardly a woman who enjoys regular trips to a male strip joint, but following trailers for Channing Tatum's latest film, "Magic Mike" I thought, what the hell, that looks like it could be fun, and so off I went with some friends prepared to have a bit of a giggle. A couple of hours later I was slumped in my seat, bored to tears, nursing a headache which resulted from the amount of eye-rolling and cringing I'd just endured.
I'll give Tatum his due, he'd clearly worked on his dance moves, and yes, arguably he has a good body, if you're into the muscular pretty-boy look, but when he learnt how to dance did he forget how to act?
The other headliner, and I must admit the draw for me, Matthew McConaughey, was looking past his prime and once again delivered a stellar performance in the role of Matthew McConaughey...perhaps semi-nude aftershave adverts are truly his calling?
The acting and atrocious script aside, the film's biggest problem was it's plot. Instead of delivery, as promised in the trailer, a fun-filled slightly raunchy comedy, we were given a heavy-handed "drugs are bad, kids" pep-talk, with a little contrived romance storyline tacked on for good measure. Ladies reading this, please tell me, you're beloved younger brother gets seduced by money into taking a job as a male stripper and then falls heavily into drugs and almost dies as a result, would you fall for the man who got him into it? Didn't think so...
UK rating: 15
Year of Release: 2012
Genre: "comedy" drama
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer
Rating: 1/5
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