147 Days Until... MAGIC MIKE XXL
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 5:01PM The teaser for Magic Mike XXL ends with "You're Welcome" which is so presumptuous but also correct. Make that two You're Welcomes since the first poster has also arrived. Let's chat both after the image. Take it all in.
It's appropriately impactful and minimalist for a teaser poster. Do you think the marketing dept all had a giggle when they placed "Coming" over Mike's crotch? You know Channing Tatum did! Here's the tease...
... or one of the teases, rather.
Obviously we are all YAAAAAAS so no need for the YNMS trailer breakdown just yet. But don't we love how it begins with that thrusting with sparks over mechanical equipment. Hee. It looks like the Cock Rocking Kings of Tampa have been blessed with a higher set budget this time out. Either that or it's become a full-fledged musical.
Petition to require mandatory dance breaks in all future Channing Tatum movies. Will you sign?
My only worry: How will this work without the genius of Matthew McConaughey's "Dallas" character (still his all time best performance - you heard me!). And I'm still confused as to why the filmmakers didn't realize that this is the ideal franchise in which to rotate cast members (it's all basically the same bodies people!). I mean you could do a movie every year. It's like they've never heard of the phrase "fresh meat" before despite building the first movie's plot around that with The Kid (Alex Pettyfer, who is not in the sequel)
The Chan goods just keeps coming: Magic Mike XXL has an updated website with new images. This all would be even more fun if it was arriving while Channing was enjoying his first Oscar nomination. Unlike Redmayne's Jupiter Ascending and Julianne Moore's Seventh Son dual-'Norbiting' thankfully nobody thinks of Magic Mike as an embarrassment, only a guilty pleasure. Which is silliness: there should be zero guilt for loving great movies.
The IMDb doesn't list an official costume designer department head for Magic Mike XXL but whoever they are, bonus points and Oscar love for making that zipper so visible.
Head over to MNPP for a buttload of fine gifs from the teaser
YOU'RE WELCOME.
P.S. And in case you missed it, read our interview with Kathy Deitch who appears in Magic Mike XXL
Reader Comments (32)
Channing Tatum should be grateful to Eddie Redmayne for making people forget that he is *also* in Jupiter Ascending.
I know I'm in the minority but I don't really care about this. I would more if I actually found attractive any of the cast members but I'm not into that type of guy. Still, the movie doesn't seem bad and the "you're welcome" at the end is hilarious.
I LOVED the first movie so I'm so excited for this one. I don't really mind the same cast as I think a rotating cast would give it a ABC Family Bring It On 7 feel.
We are living in #blessed times.
I literally giggled while watching the trailer. *sigh*
I'm so there.
This is the greatest cinematic achievement of all time.
Glad that this looks like a straight up comedy, but without Dallas and The Kid (Pettyfer was no great shakes in the acting department, but he was the only member of the cast who did it for me 100% in the looks department - I know, I'm crazy, you don't need to tell me) I can't honestly say I have that much interest in this.
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!
The direction of where his fingers are pointing, the strategic placement of the word "coming"...that, ladies and gents, is how you tease a movie.
I'm totally with Sad man on this one: These guys don't make my sperm squirm. (That's why I was on Team Ruffalo in Foxcatcher...he was HAWT!)
I didn't see the first one, so I won't be seeing this one.
@Bill_the_Bear: I was team Ruffalo, too. I prefer men that look real, not that I don't enjoy a pretty boy now and then but I usually like the "regular joe" look better.
You have an appropiate user name. ;)
The first one had no juice, IMO. And I couldn't muster up any sympathy for some oversexed 30-year-old's quarter-life crisis. So I'll sit this one out.
I've already seen this poster many times in Boystown.
Uh oh. A little worried about this! I've been hesitant ever since Tatum said this one would be what everyone thought the first one would be (but the first one was good! So why find the need to "correct" a non -mistake!?). But mostly this has me worried about the grossly fake-looking roid bodies on display (again was everyone self conscious about needing to "improve" something about the last one?). More importantly they're pushing it even further into defensive "not for the gays!" territory by showing us shot after shot of hot chicks. As in, "the reason for male stripping isn't so male bodies can be admired/lusted over, but so guys can bend women over and dry hump them! Yay! Faceless lady props are the best!!
Jesus H. Christ! YASSSSSSSS!
No Soderbergh, McConaughey, or Pettyfer? Hmmm. That gives me pause. Not that I give a shit about Pettyfer, but his character was a major part of the first one. Explaining his and McConaughey's absences will be curious. But I guess the OSCAR winner is too A-list for this anymore. Don't act like this wasn't a part of the McConaissance too, Mr. Bongo!
Soderbergh still "retired"?
Oh Channing! That trailer. All those regulars back for seconds! I'm gonna need a minute.
I wouldn't have minded some "fresh meat" this time around either lol.
Sofia's a lucky ass lady. Literally.
Yeah this will be the Magic Mike people thought they were getting the first time. Cinephiles probably won't like this one as much but I'm there anyway.
Yeah this will be the Magic Mike people thought they were getting the first time. Cinephiles probably won't like this one as much but I'm there anyway.
I'm a big pause on this. The first one was so good and sometimes it's best to leave things alone. Imagine if Wes tired to do a sequel to GBH? A bad sequel can sour the original for me.
(Course I'll see it. Duh!)
This one probably won't be half as good as the first one, and I'll probably enjoy it twice as much. So there. Trailer made me laugh out loud several times.
Next time get Chi-Chi to direct.
That "YOU'RE WELCOME" is the best thing ever.
I would love to see what Chi Chi could do with that group. But I also want to hear his voice in the background screaming: "Harder Bitches! Harder! Move your leg."
@Dorian, while Soderbergh isn't directing, he's still very much involved. Seems to have wanted to make sure it's not total crap :) http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Steven-Soderbergh-Have-His-Hands-All-Over-Magic-Mike-XXL-43097.html
The thing with "so-and-so's NORBIT" is that it only really works if the actor is going back to the stuff they were doing before. The phrase worked for Eddie Murphy because he was going back to the fat suits and the fart jokes just when people were beginning to think he was serious about acting in better movies. Nobody is gonna think Julianne or Eddie Redmayne are back to old tricks. Actors are smart enough to know when somebody needs a pay check. It's probably why Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey have never been nominated. They always seem to go quite quickly back to the films that people don't respect.
If the reviews are good, I'll see it though I doubt it will make miss Soderbergh (who is the film's cinematographer) and McConaughey.
Seventh Son was not a Norbit, it's one of the more enjoyable sword & sorcery that has come out in a long time, definitely better than The Hobbit movies. Jupiter Ascending I would say was more of a Battlefield Earth. Eddie was at least doing a 0.4 Travolta.
I've loved Channing Tatum ever since his turn as secretly sensitive soccer stud Duke Orsino in the criminally underrated "She's the Man", and that was nine goddamn years ago. I'll be there with bells on an a paper bag to breathe into.
"Bill the Bear" and "Sad Man" and I seem to have the same tastes in men (read: Bear), so I would prefer some chest hair on my strippers, er, male exotic dancers.
But I'm still sooooo there. Saw the first one with a group of women, and will probably be doing the same again here.
You can't undone the wasted opportunity of the first movie.
That teaser poster is PERFECT. I want it for my wall.
...or maybe my ceiling.
The first movie was really not very good and not all that titillating so I'm kind of mystified by all the giddiness exhibited by so many folks. Eh! I can wait for Netflix.
I just hope this one a) doesn't have such a Debbie Downer of a romantic interest. Seriously, you give us a movie about male strippers and the only female character is just standing around judging it all? What a buzzkill. And b) also has some hot sex scenes as opposed to just hot strip scenes (not that there's anything wrong with those). Like, can this movie objectify these men in more intimate moments or only when it's putting them on a pedestal to be praised?
The poster should be showcasing Mr Tatum's Oscar worthy butt muscles....
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