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Magic Mike makes waves at the cinema

Magic Mike has been released in the cinema - but it's more than just eye candy!

We may be in the wettest British summer in living memory, but that hasn't stopped plenty of ladies getting rather hot and bothered of late - not only has the fictional Christian Grey from the ever-popular Fifty Shades of Grey got everyone's heart racing but now (as those with a Little White Lies magazine subscription will already know) Magic Mike has just hit the cinemas.

The film is about a group of male strippers and stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughey. That's one way to cheer the female population up, isn't it? However, rather than being the seedy, cheap comedy which it could have easily turned into, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike is a lot deeper than you might originally think. It could be described as a cross between The Full Monty and Coyote Ugly.

Mike (Tatum) is a roof-tiler by day, stripper by night and when he meets Adam (Pettyfer) who is 19 and has just dropped out of college, he introduces him to his lifestyle - both the highs and the lows.

Little White Lies sum it up perfectly in their review: "It's not tacky. It's not a romp. It's not glossy and it's not sexy. It has charm. But more than that, Magic Mike is a product of a time where a coming-of-age story written on sandpaper about the bleak uncertainty of young adulthood, the slippery danger of getting too rich too quick, and the realisation that some dreams will never come true."

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Posted by Tori Gibson.

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