Magic Mike's Last Dance
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 10, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 54 Critic Reviews
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85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 7, 2023
Delivering the male-entertainment goods while radiating a newfound degree of tender romanticism, it’s a fairy-tale coda that’s at once sensual, lyrical, and liberating. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonFeb 8, 2023
Since more moviegoers are likely coming to a Magic Mike movie for the moves than the plot, let it be stated the moves are outstanding, even if the movers remain mostly blank slates. Read full review
80
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaFeb 10, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance is measured and mature, which makes it less of a crowd-pleaser than the first two movies, but it allows Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek to bask in their incredible romantic chemistry. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleSarah JaneFeb 15, 2023
Having sat out the first sequel, returning Magic Mike director Steven Soderbergh has made an entertaining enough movie, but it’s the weakest of the series. Read full review
77
The AtlanticShirley LiFeb 21, 2023
Mike and Max’s relationship—in which she whisks him off to London so he can direct an all-male revue at the theater she owns—is the stuff of romance novels, but that’s the point: Last Dance is all wish fulfillment, seductive and surreal. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 10, 2023
Most of all, Magic Mike's Last Dance is about fit, graceful bodies moving through space. Read full review
75
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferFeb 7, 2023
The two creative engines of the series might seem like strange bedfellows — the brainy Soderbergh and the brawny Tatum — but the duo brings out the best in each other. The director appreciates the earnestness of his leading man and finds ways to deepen that charm through quick-witted humor. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenFeb 7, 2023
The undercurrent of economic insecurity is gone, replaced by a generic, “get-the-band-back-together” plot, but this sequel to Magic Mike still shines as a movie musical. Read full review
75
The Film StageJordan RaupFeb 7, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance has an ample dose of humor, heart, and chiseled abs, but one wishes the trilogy capper felt more than perfunctory. Read full review
75
IndieWireJude DryFeb 7, 2023
The movie’s casting montage may feel stilted and long, but it’s easy to imagine Tatum’s actual thrill at assembling the best dancers from around the world. When they stop talking and start dancing, that’s when the real magic happens. Read full review
75
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerFeb 7, 2023
Doesn’t dive deep into the mysteries of the human heart, but does deliver some sweetness along with the gyrating and thrusting. Read full review
71
Paste MagazineTara Bennett Feb 7, 2023
For those looking for more razzle-dazzle with assless chaps, Magic Mike’s Last Dance may test your patience with its meandering middle. But Channing Tatum is so damn skilled as a dancer, comedian and romantic hero, he rewards the patient. Read full review
69
PolygonKatie RifeFeb 7, 2023
Allowing both love and money to complicate the primal enjoyment of watching muscular men in sweatpants gyrate ends up diluting the film’s once-simple pleasures. Maybe you can’t have it all. Read full review
67
ColliderRoss BonaimeFeb 9, 2023
Even though the flaws in Last Dance are glaringly obvious—not only is this the worst of the Magic Mike franchise, it’s also clunky in a way Soderbergh films rarely are—it’s still hard to not get caught up in the celebration of it all. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFeb 7, 2023
Last Dance is missing a lot, but it has the moves you mostly came for — and in its final strobe-lit moments, the full release of a Hollywood ending. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 10, 2023
Tamer and what one could arguably call classier, this movie trades bromantic machismo and beefcake high jinks for female empowerment and character maturity, though still boasting hunky dudes and clothes being ripped off. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 10, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance is one of Soderbergh’s most notable misfires and, although one can justifiably argue that sub-par Soderbergh is as good as a solid effort by many other directors, that doesn’t change the end result: there’s something unsatisfying about this motion picture. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrFeb 9, 2023
If there is a quibble, it’s that Hayek and Tatum don’t quite inspire the will-they-won’t-they tension that the movie seems to be asking of them. They work well together when they’re working together, but the romantic chemistry is a bit lacking. Read full review
60
SlashfilmRafael MotamayorFeb 11, 2023
Rather than the gritty drama of the first film or the delightful fantasy of the second, we instead get a dull romance with paper-thin characters, lame voice-over narration, and rather clean and puritan dance numbers, resulting in a film that feels more like an advertisement for the "Magic Mike Live" show than a movie. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeFeb 10, 2023
Last Dance is frightfully indulgent, but, this being Soderbergh, it is also studded with delightful outbreaks of invention. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 9, 2023
Hayek Pinault and Tatum have a tantalizing chemistry, but the script doesn’t always help them activate it. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 8, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance only partially rekindles the spark of the earlier movie, or that of its rambunctious sequel, Magic Mike XXL. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 7, 2023
Last Dance does not top what came before, lacking the inspiration, freshness and spark of the earlier pictures. But it feels properly measured in its acknowledgement that the dance eventually ends. Mike bows out gracefully enough. Read full review
60
BBCCaryn JamesFeb 7, 2023
While Channing Tatum is charismatic, and there are a few flashes of wit in the script, the latest Magic Mike sequel is 'tepid'. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesFeb 7, 2023
A slick, dance-crammed London excursion that loses some magic when it focuses on romance. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinFeb 7, 2023
For the microscopic subset of cinema-goers who watch Magic Mike films for the plot, Last Dance may prove disappointing. Returning screenwriter Reid Carolin doesn’t come up with anything novel to do with the hackneyed let’s-put-on-a-show premise. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicKimi RobinsonFeb 7, 2023
Billed as a musical comedy, Magic Mike’s Last Dance should be a lighthearted Valentine’s Day/Super Bowl weekend watch. Unfortunately, it’s not funny in the ways it expects to be. Read full review
54
TheWrapLena WilsonFeb 7, 2023
Why Magic Mike’s Last Dance chooses to teach viewers about love, consent, and having it all, then, is a mystery. The Galentine’s Day crowd will probably be too drunk to notice. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJake ColeFeb 12, 2023
By never committing to neo-screwball antics nor a more serious analysis of codependency, the film ends up stranded in emotional ambiguity. Read full review
50
Original-CinKaren GordonFeb 9, 2023
It plods along with improbable turns that get less interesting as we wait for the inevitable dance sequences. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonFeb 9, 2023
Despite the return of director Steven Soderbergh (who also serves, as usual, as editor and cinematographer), writer Reid Carolin, and star Channing Tatum, this installment pales in comparison to its superior predecessors. Dare I say, it lacks — magic? Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 9, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance might’ve worked better if it had fully embraced the mantle of 21st century comedy of manners. As is, it’s tentative, wanly comic. As the great Russian stripper Anton Chekhov showed us: Without the funny, the serious has a harder go of it. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshFeb 9, 2023
This final installment finds Soderbergh and Tatum toying with audience expectations to disappointing results. There are a few flashes of the original magic, but it’s lacking in the energy that made the first two movies a thrill. Read full review
50
CNNBrian LowryFeb 9, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance is less a coda to the franchise than a muted riff on it, an encore without much of a purpose. What drew director Steven Soderbergh back to material this thin is anybody’s guess, but if strippers like to talk about making it rain, this third and (for now) final entry creatively speaking yields more of a drizzle than a downpour. Read full review
50
SlateDana StevensFeb 8, 2023
To the disappointment of this once-enthusiastic ogler, Magic Mike’s Last Dance fails to capture the eponymous magic of the first two very different but both delightful movies. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussFeb 8, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance may not be as dirty a delight as the male stripper series’ first two movies. It has other pleasures, though, especially for fans of screwball comedy, musicals and — yikes — serious dance. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyFeb 8, 2023
With its straining yet deadened feel, this is the movie of a director who dreams of putting on one last show before going home. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsFeb 7, 2023
Tame is what Magic Mike’s Last Dance is — what it apparently wants to be, what it becomes in exchange for its new, cardboard-simple, ostensible pro-woman worldview. The movie’s pleasures mute themselves beneath its good intentions. It wants to be about what women want. But it feels like it never asked. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreFeb 7, 2023
Despite being half–“Let’s put on a show” movie and half–romantic comedy, two genres dedicated to delight, Magic Mike’s Last Dance never achieves satisfaction. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 7, 2023
Admirably ambitious if conceptually muddled, it short-circuits a lot of those signature “Magic Mike” pleasures — including some of the lust, and a lot of the laughs — and signals its headier ambitions with a dramatic shift in scenery. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 7, 2023
The dance scenes are admittedly well-choreographed and filmed (that Soderbergh kid knows what he’s doing behind the camera), but “Last Dance” isn’t nearly as raw and sexy as the original. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 11, 2023
It’s a diverting enough way to pass a couple of hours, I suppose, although you’ll need a high tolerance for montage sequences and for the alarmingly priapic personal-space-invading exertions of Mike and his boys. Read full review
40
ABC NewsPeter TraversFeb 10, 2023
Despite the lusty efforts of Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault, stripper Mike’s final whirl is a pale, generic copy of the wow that was. The new focus on female empowerment is admirable, but gender politics are no substitute for naked, guiltless bliss. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithFeb 10, 2023
It may be cheaper than a trip to see the gentlemen of Chippendales but, artistically speaking, it’s on roughly the same level. Read full review
40
EmpireElla KempFeb 8, 2023
A misguided screwball narrative sacrifices the performances of talented men for clumsy, baggy rom-com tropes. Bring back Pony and all of Mike’s men – or just release a live DVD of London’s best night out instead. Read full review
40
Time OutPhil de SemlyenFeb 8, 2023
You can see the sweat on stage, but it’s harder to detect in the filmmaking. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyFeb 7, 2023
The aggressive air-humping of its past films is replaced by ballet and interpretive dance in this sanitised final instalment. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 7, 2023
“Toothless” probably isn’t the first word Magic Mike fans want to associate with Channing Tatum’s aging exotic dancer series, but there’s no denying the female-targeting franchise has dulled its bite over the past decade. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 7, 2023
Channing Tatum’s hunky stripper enjoys some sizzling scenes with Salma Hayek but this eccentric threequel feels cobbled together. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanFeb 9, 2023
Magic Mike’s Last Dance, a mostly flat, flavorless cocktail of a sequel that tries to replicate the fizz of the 2012 original by stirring together elements of a getting-her-groove-back love story with music-video-style production numbers, lessons in female empowerment delivered with all the subtlety of a TED Talk and the kind of let’s-put-on-a-show energy that went out of style in 1940, has — despite those flaws — its moments. Read full review
30
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah-Tai BlackFeb 18, 2023
Soderbergh’s film tosses the many lessons of its predecessors, leaving us with a movie that is utterly devoid of its own magic. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeFeb 7, 2023
But the film is so baggy, so preoccupied with its own ambitions — re-establishing its support of women’s desires, addressing a new generation, etc. — that it deflates into flaccid fluff. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 10, 2023
Donna Summer’s disco classic “Last Dance” does a good job of summing up Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Magic Mike’s Last Dance: When it’s bad it’s so, so bad. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 9, 2023
Even Channing Tatum seems a little embarrassed by all this by the time the third act rolls around. Read full review
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