25 Most Hotly Anticipated Movies Of Summer 2015
7. Magic Mike XXL
Release Date: 1st July
Despite Magic Mike turning his back on the stripping game, Channing Tatum's furniture making dancer extraordinaire is back on the road with Tarzan, Big Dick Richie, Tito and Ken to hit a stripping convention. Which sounds like a made up opportunity to see lots of high-production strip set-pieces, as if anyone's going to say that's a problem.
Rather brilliantly, Ric Flair is also in it.
Selling Point
Dancing films tend to be serious guilty pleasure fodder, and impressive male physiques are admired well beyond the limits of cinema. But hopefully the sequel will do as its predecessor and look well beyond the pretty surface level of its central characters: that was its real selling point.
Reservations
It's genuinely a little concerning that there might not actually be a plot knitting together the strip sequences. Considering the sequel is entirely unnecessary (in terms of the first film's enclosed narrative at least), that won't go away until anyone sees it.