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Movies: Magic Mike’s Trailer Tease

This weekend, at long last, you’ll be able to barricade yourself inside an air-conditioned movie theater with Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper epic featuring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew...

by Fan Zhong

This weekend, at long last, you’ll be able to barricade yourself inside an air-conditioned movie theater with Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper epic featuring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey as a merry gang of oiled-up Chippendales-esque beefcakes.

It’s about time. The succession of trailers Warner Bros. has been teasing out over the past few months have successfully fanned the flames of anticipation into a wildfire. Rarely, if ever, has there been a series of promotional trailers choreographed to re-enact—very literally—an actual striptease, culminating in a red-band clip posted online two weeks ago which is, for nearly any office environment, NSFW. In case you missed them, though, here’s a mini-retrospective:

April 18: Moments after the first trailer was posted online, Youtube comments ranging between “MMMMMMMMM” to “I want this in 3D!!!!” began to pour in. There’re some topless Step Up-era moves from Channing Tatum, but it’s all harmless—albeit titillating—good fun.

May 18: The international trailer goes online, and things start to get a little dirty. From 1:45 onward, this clip shows off intensely unadulterated stripping from all parties concerned. Many pairs of tearaway pants are—gasp!—torn away.

June 13: The one-minute red-band trailer explodes the Internet. Utterly NSFW—and probably illegal.