Mike is a 30 year old male stripper that takes a broke 19 year old kid into the dance club business.
The only thing that makes this movie worth watching is that there is a lot of man candy to watch. Other than that, there is nothing to brag about. Weak storey, poor acting, horrible direction, and the cinematography is the worst part. Camera work and editing is sad and amateurish. Bad camera angles, few close-ups, over use of wide angle lens, and bad lighting. Editing does not have the expected and required cut-aways to close-ups. It made me wonder if they hired someone’s cousin that happened to get a new video camera for their birthday to shoot this thing.
I had no idea there were several other well known celebrities were in this flick, all of which were used as extras in the entire shoot. And all of which are strong actors, and in my opinion better than the focused stars. It made me wonder if it was due to scene stealing jealousy, as having them a little more in front and being an actual part of the storey would have made this thing a far far better film. Even just a few close-ups and a few lines each would have made it more worthy. The actors I’m referring to are Matt Bomer from White Collar, Adam Rodriguez from CSI Miami, and Joe Manganiello from True Blood. It was obvious and felt odd to have these guys so deliberately in the background. Even a weekly TV show would have made better use of background actors.
If seeing mostly naked hot men dance is enough to watch a movie, this is a decent pick. These guys are incredibly hot. But even that could have been made more enjoyable with better camera work. And the oddest thing is Channing Tatum has appeared in dance movies where they had better cinematography, so why is it so drastically different in this one? Very disappointing. Channing is obviously on a roll, I hope he starts to make better movies in the future if he plans to continue producing.
4/10
