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The predecessor to Magic Mike XXL - simply titled Magic Mike - actually had the semblance of a story. At the very base of it was your standard boy-meets-girl, they fight, they make up, rom-com formula - albeit with a lot of stripping thrown in. This time around, XXL throws off any pretenses and simply focuses on what we came here for in the first place - a hoard of finely tuned bodies getting their groove on and their clothes off.
The plot, if it can be called that, is simple. there's a strippers convention and the boys have gathered together to go on a road trip to the convention for one last hurrah. Along the way, there are the obligatory altercations, accidents and what-have-yous. But fortunately, there's nothing that can't be resolved with a little bit of, you guessed it, stripping!
The final part of the movie focuses on the act they put together for the convention. If the movie has any sort of 'this is what we're learning today kids' aspect to it it's that we should be true to ourselves. Something that Mike teaches the rest of the boys by way of getting them to ditch the old routines and come up with acts that are more personalised. This plan works out better for some (Dick) than others (Tito).
If you know Magic Mike, you already know what you're in for. XXL actually is bigger - bigger cast, bigger acts and bigger damage to women's spinal cords (seriously, these women get thrown about a lot). All I know is, after watching it, I'll never look at a chair the same way again.
