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Mike Lane used to seem more like a person.
Thats who we meet again inMagic Mikes Last Dance.
Tatum has made an art of playing meatheads with hearts of gold.
That might feel self-indulgent in these movies if it werent so radical.
Once you turn a character into a lens for female desire, its hard to go back.
Mikes done with stripping when the film begins.
She whisks him off to London for a monthlong paid engagement she swears will be platonic.
But the real problem is Mike.
Its a little too easy to imagine Tatum keeping at this forever with Mike going gray but otherwise unchanged.
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