# Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)

Ways in which Magic Mike’s Last Dance is like So You Think You Can Dance:

• Great dancing and choreography
• The dancing is rarely very sexy
• Occasionally boring solo dances and audition scenes that don’t seem to end
• Success is often determined by some old crotchety Brit
• In-between dances, there is no overarching plot
• Too many aimless montages that just seem to kill the time between dances
• British host who isn’t super essential to the proceedings but we love her energy anyway

This works for SYTYCD, but it is a real drag here. Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek are amazing and it’s beautiful to watch, but it’s my least favorite of the Magic Mike-iverse. It just doesn’t make much sense, but it’s largely a character drama. The lack of coherence becomes a much bigger problem than when XXL’s lighthearted funtimes road trip also didn’t hold together.

I have no idea what the cats intermission was about, but I want that retroactively edited into all previous Soderbergh movies.