Magic Mike was marketed as a naughty but fun girls night out, but the movies tone was far more melodramatic than advertised. Despite the franchise carrying a collective cultural memory of being a ...

The Magic Mike movies were many things (including being way better than you might assume, for the most part), but they also scratched a certain slightly carnal itch that many films don't get near.

Magic Mike was written by Reid Carolin, who made his screenwriting debut with Magic Mike in 2012 and has since worked on both sequels, Magic Mike XXL, and Magic Mike's Last Dance.He also worked ...