The story is pretty much Mike(Tatum) is a 30 year old stripper who ends up taking on a young slacker he nicknamed the Kid(Pettyfer) to start working in the strip club owned by Dallas(McConaughey), who's hesitant about it. The Kid lives with his sister Brooke(Cody Horn) because again he's a slacker who's pretty much going nowhere in his life. She learns of his stripping pretty early on and of course a seed of attraction to Mike is planted. The high life is accentuated until drugs are introduced to Kid, and then it gets dramatic; it shows a nice path to resolution for Mike, but leaves another path open for Kid.
It has the feel of an indie movie that happens to have Hollywood quality male stripper scenes in it. Tatum is at his best, and you get to fully see his ass a good couple of times. Cody Horn as Brooke is alright, she's pretty flat as an actress(think Chloe Sevigny) but considering she's the daughter of one of the producers, it's no surprise how she got this role. Olivia Munn plays a recurring booty call for Tatum and enjoys threeways with other women included. Pettyfer does a good job as the slacker who manages to get lucky and get ahead by doing little to nothing. The writing isn't that impressive, it doesn't suck though, it's passable. It's a more than simple story that's told simply, it's Tatum's performance that actually keeps you engaged in the movie.
I was a little annoyed with the dance scenes simply because they're all fully in the trailers(except for McConaughey's). I know it wasn't a dance movie ala the Step Up movies, but I expected more. Plus for the ones they did show, I expected them to be longer. This movie is just a huge tease when it comes to the dance scenes so they can get back to the movie's story. I was expecting this to be this generation's
The Full Monty, and at first it does seem like it, but then it gets gets to the drugs introduction.
A warning is that it shows a lot of nudity but not overly-glorified. You got Tatum and Pettyfer's asses a couple of times, Matt Bomer ass(my personal fave) a penis in a penis pump, Olivia Munn's boobs, and a random blonde's huge boobs; and then McConughey's dance is the skimpiest complete with a full moon. Lots of men in underwear too.
I don't know how, but they got Kevin Nash in the movie. They severely underused Bomer and Manganiello. I'm not saying that because they're sexy, but you literally have nothing to go on their characters other that Bomer introduces Pettyfer to ecstasy and Manganiello can sew costumes and get people to shut up.
: don't let him fool ya
. When will this movie get to my country?! 
