The rest of the movie is a backstage drama about Mike and Max learning how to be a couple as they collaborate on the show and try to stop it from getting shut down by Max’s husband for violating historic district architectural codes, etc. You know, the kind of thing that happens all the time. After a brief pantomime of refusal, he agrees, and it’s such a mind-blowing experience for Max (the sex afterward is great, too) that she invites him to come with her to London and create and choreograph a stage production that will bring the Magic Mike experience to the West End. Max offers Mike an exorbitant sum for one last dance. That’s where he meets Max ( Salma Hayek Pinault), the estranged and wants-to-be-divorced wife of a London one-percenter. A brief prologue establishes that Mike lost his furniture business during the pandemic and works as a bartender at catered events in Miami. To its credit, Steven Soderbergh’s new movie gets the “I’m done, don’t ask me to dance” ritual out of the way in less than ten minutes. “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third film starring Channing Tatum as a big-hearted, iron-thewed Florida stripper, knows that we know that Mike doesn’t feel truly fulfilled unless he’s dancing. He’s the male stripper version of a bank robber or cowboy who swears he’s retired but gets lured back into action for one last job. “Magic” Mike Lane can’t stop bumping and grinding.
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