Luckily, Magic Mike XXL is smarter than that-any humor derived from the encounter was at the expense of the guys, not the queens. When it first became clear that the boys (all of them straight) were going to a drag show, I tensed up: The temptation for the comedy to become lazily homophobic in such situations is strong.
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(Not to mention bawdy lines like, “There was a giant hole inside of me that’s full again.”) But the drag scene is a more explicit nod to gay culture than these, and a wise one, in that it manages to pander just the right amount. Of course, drag isn’t what most gay men are coming to this movie to see the draw is more along the lines of the glorious sighting of Manganiello’s ass that comes about five minutes in or the campy gas station scene where the same man douses himself in Cheetos and water to make a dowdy cashier smile. In fact, the film, which follows the temporarily reassembled stripper crew on a journey from Tampa, Florida, to a convention in Myrtle Beach, aka the “Redneck Riviera,” is surprisingly deferential to its gay viewership-so much so that the first third largely depends on a drag show and its glittery wake for dramatic material. That gay men are an equally enthusiastic audience for Channing Tatum’s smooth moves and Joe Manganiello’s Adonis-like (though, sadly here, shaven) musculature seems to have dawned on the production team behind Magic Mike XXL, the charming sequel out this week.
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