Let me start at the beginning. Flashback
to my 21st birthday. Some friends were going to take me out to an
all-male dance revue for the big day, but I got sick. Really sick. Too sick to
try and look pretty. Too sick to let naked men snatch dollar bills from between
my teeth or boobs.
It wasn’t until years later I got
the opportunity to witness a Chippendale-esque (it’s my blog and I can make up
words and butcher the spelling of those words) show. I had mixed feelings about
attending the performance because I have mixed feelings about female strippers
being objectified and disrespected by wolf-whistling guys denigrating them by
tossing dollar bills. But I thought the show would be good inspiration or
experience for my writing. I hung way in the back and found the spectacle to be
amusing, if not inspiring.
Flash forward to Magic Mike. I went
to see it with a girlfriend, the way it was meant to be seen. I’m not a huge
Channing Tatum fan. I did enjoy watching the dancing and could have stood to
see more (had a disagreement with a co-worker about whether he had a dance
double). I liked his sense of humor. I wasn’t into The Kid, as they called him
or any of the other male dancers except Big Dick Richie. I love Joe Manganiello
of Trueblood fame. And I developed a girl crush on Olivia Munn (The Newsroom).
She is so pretty, smart, funny and she had amazing chemistry with Tatum. Why
she wasn’t the lead female character is a mystery. The part of Joanna was
actually meatier, but should not have outshone Brooke, the female love interest
(played by Cody Horn, whoever she is) of Tatum. But Olivia Munn did shine
bright, stealing the spotlight just like she steals every scene on The Newsroom.
In the end, I was a little
disappointed. Better stripping movies might be Dancing at the Blue Iguana, The
Full Monty and Flashdance. What do you think? About Channing doing his own
dancing, about Olivia being the female lead, anything about Joe?
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