MAGIC MIKE (2012)
Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home ENtertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Ratring: R
Duration: 110 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (2.39:1)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer
Synopsis: Let's hear it for the boys! Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum (Step Up) and Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) star in this revealing drama set in the world of exotic male dancing. Tatum plays Magic Mike, a womanizing hustler with an entrepreneurial spirit who makes his living on the stage. When he takes on a protege (Pettyfer) to instruct him in the fine art of hustling onstage and off, he finds himself falling for the newcomer's sister (Cody Horn) -- and questioning his life choices. Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies & Videotape, Ocean's Eleven films) directs an all-star cast that also includes White Collar's Matt Bomer, True Blood's Joe Manganiello, Olivia Munn and Matthew McConaughey as a former dancer and now owner of the club.
There's not a lot here to discuss, directed by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies & Videotape), the story is pretty basic stuff, and is at least in-part based on star Channing Tatum's own experiences as an 18 year-old stripper working in Florida talented stripper. Here we have Mike (Channing Tatum, The Hateful Eight) aka Magic Mike, a talented stripper with several entrepreneurial side-hustles who is looking to move beyond being an oiled-up sex-hunk, along the way introducing and mentoring a college dropout (Alex Pettyfer, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) to the lucrative stip-life, trying to keep him away from drugs and other corrupting influences and failing, along the way having to choose between his current on-again/off-again girlfriend Joanna (Olivia Munn, X-Men Apocalypse) or his new protégé's sister Brooke (Cody Horn, TV's Rescue Me). On top of that there's plenty of oiled-up hunks guaranteed to raise the humidity level in any room by way of Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello, HBO's True Blood), Ken (Matt Bomer, American Horror Story: Hotel), Tito (Adam Rodríguez, TV 's CSI: Miami) and Tarzan (Kevin Nash, Rock of Ages). It's just a slick, glossy and breezy flick, and watching wild-eyed Matthew McConaughey (Dazed and Confused) chewing-up the scenery as Mike's mentor, a former stripper turned club owner who steals every damn scene he's in; though I will say that I thought comedian Gabriel Iglesias seems miscast as the club's drug-pushing DJ.
Audio/Video: Magic Mike (2012) arrives on 4K Ultra HD from WBDHE in HDR10 enhanced 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (2.39:1). The digital shot flick looks terrific, Soderberg's use of color is well-intact, colors dazzle with the application of HDR10, contrast pleases, and black levels are rock solid. The application of HDR looks fantastic, zero complaints, just a gorgeous looking image with no compression issues that caught my eye. Audio comes by way of English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with optional English subtitles. The track is propulsive the music bumping in the club during the dance sequence is electrifying, quite dynamic, and atmospherics in the surround were nicely immersive.
I don't have the Blu-ray to compare it to, but after a quick bit of research reveals the UHD features a paired down selection of extras, we only get the 17-min Backstage on Magic Mike featurette with the cast and crew, but the 19-min Dance Play Mode sizzle reel and 9-min of Extended Dance Sequences have been omitted, and as this does not include even a recycled Blu-ray disc or digital copy (c'mon WB!?!) there's no access tot hose archival extras with this release.
The single-disc 4K UHD arrives in a standard keepcase black keepcase with a single-sleeve of artwork.
Special Features:
- Backstage on Magic Mike (17 min)
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