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February 10, 2023

At the Movies: Magic Mike bids farewell with a ‘Last Dance'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

The words Magic Mike may conjure up images of sweaty, sculpted, undulating men, dancing unthreateningly for hoards of screaming women, but there has always been a backdrop of brutal economic reality looming over the fantasy world.

The unlikely franchise has explored the escalating devaluation of physical laborers, the suffocating effects of the college industrial complex, predatory loan businesses, recession and even COVID-19, which has effectively destroyed poor Mike Lane's furniture business in this latest film.


 
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