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MAGIC MIKE

"Not So Magic, Abhorrent, and Degrading"

What You Need To Know:

MAGIC MIKE is another sex and drugs comedy from Hollywood. The protagonist, Mike, works several jobs, including one as a male stripper. He wants to earn enough money to start a furniture business. On his roofing job, Mike meets Adam, a younger man he convinces to try stripping for money. Shy at first, Adam becomes successful, but is lured into drug dealing to make even more money. A strip gig at a sorority house degenerates into a big fight. So, Mike and Adam are forced to leave behind a large stash of Adam’s drugs. This results in Adam being sought by his suppliers, who want payment for the lost drugs.

MAGIC MIKE brings to the movie screen the full experience of a male strip club, complete with massive vulgarity, sex, nudity, drugs, and alcohol. To say it’s absolutely abhorrent is an understatement. It’s so repulsive it makes one discouraged about the state of American culture. Most American cities have strip clubs that are seen by the public as the shameful underside of our culture. The idea that MAGIC MIKE will play in thousands of multiplex theaters across America is mind-boggling.

Content:

(PaPaPa, LLL, V, SSS, NNN, AAA, DDD, MMM) Very strong, vile pagan worldview with the major characters promoting the pursuit of sexual arousal as entertainment; at least 178 obscenities (primarily the “f” word) and five profanities, plus one blasphemous scene where a strip club manager thanks God for blessing his vile business; large fight in a sorority house when fraternity boys tire of seeing strippers paid to “entertain” their sorority girlfriends; very strong sexual content includes massive amounts of sexually suggestive stage performances, strippers (dressed as policemen) strip in a sorority house, male performers repeatedly pretend to be simulating sex with women from their audience, and strippers bring home women for acts of fornication; silhouette of male private parts, upper female nudity, full rear male and female nudity, extended and detailed presentations of men performing on stage wearing g-strings and skimpy outfits, and sexual device demonstrated for enlarging male private parts; heavy alcohol and drug use with scenes of drunkenness and drug induced stupors, in one scene a drugged man appears dead lying in his own vomit, and illegal drug sales and distribution; and rebellion and horrible role models.

More Detail:

MAGIC MIKE is not so magic. It’s another vile, defective sex and drugs comedy from Hollywood. To say that it’s abhorrent is an understatement.

The movie opens with Mike (Channing Tatum) working several jobs, including one as a male stripper, Mike wants to earn enough money to start a custom furniture business. On his job as a roofer, he meets Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a young man he convinces to try stripping for money. Shy at first, Adam becomes a successful stripper, but is lured into drug dealing to make even more money.

When a strip gig at a sorority house degenerates into a big fight, Mike and Adam are forced to leave behind a large stash of Alex’s drugs. This results in Alex being sought out by his drug suppliers, who want payment for the drugs he lost.

As the movie draws to a close, Adam profusely thanks Mike for introducing him to a career he loves: stripping, having lots of free sex and making good money. The lifestyle Adam professes to love includes a scene where he’s found laying on the floor in his own vomit, looking dead after a night of sex and drugs. He’s “rescued” by Mike and his sister only to return to the vile lifestyle he now loves.

With MAGIC MIKE, Warner Bros. brings to your local theater the full experience of a male strip club, complete with massive vulgarity, sex, nudity, drugs and alcohol. It’s the absolute opposite of the hopes and dreams of Harry Warner.

Speaking at the 1951 Motion Picture Pioneer Awards Harry, one of the four original Warner Brothers, said, “The potential force of motion pictures for good has just begun to be tapped. All we have done is only a foundation for future greatness, but we can take pride in the fact that our foundation is a firm one. It is sold bedrock for future pioneers to build upon.”

With MAGIC MIKE, Warner Bros. executives, including their corporate heads at Time Warner, have undermined the foundation of their company. The secular website IMDB tags the storyline as “A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women and make easy money.” This is not “being a force for good.” In Romans 1, the apostle Paul explains that when men and women abandon God, their minds become darkened, and they do “vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.”

MAGIC MIKE is vile and degrading, with not much of a real plot. It’s mostly just about men trying to sexually arouse groups of women with obscene dances, and worse. Women interested in this movie as revenge for the countless movies that portray women as sex objects will be disappointed. Most of the women in this movie still come across as sex objects. Only, in this movie, they pay the men to grossly disrespect them.

To say this movie deserves MOVIEGUIDE®’s abhorrent (-4) rating is an understatement. It’s so repulsive it makes one discouraged about the state of American culture. The idea that this will play in thousands of multiplex theaters across America is mind-boggling. Most American cities have strip clubs and pornography shops that are seen by the general public as the shameful underside of our culture. Some communities try to keep such establishments out because they know they encourage all sorts of bad behavior (as is well portrayed in the movie).

Reportedly, the movie is partly based on star Channing Tatum’s own experiences as an 18-year-old male stripper. Barry M. Meyer, the Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros., is bringing this depraved culture to many of the same local theaters showing BRAVE and MADAGASCAR 3. Equally bad, most of America’s major theater chains are willing to stoop low enough to show it. What none of these people understand is that the promotion of movies like MAGIC MIKE in their theaters is a major reason why fewer and fewer people even want to enter a multiplex theater with their families. Why plunk down $12 per person to see the new MADSAGASCAR movie if my eyes are going to be assaulted with posters promoting male strip clubs?

MAGIC MIKE is the kind of movie that makes you want to work even harder to redeem the media. Harry Warner understood that filmmakers have a moral responsibility to be a force for good. We can pray for and work toward the day when the moguls of America’s leading studios will once again green light all their movies with an eye toward being a force for good rather than depravity.

Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.