Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) review

Retired dancer Mike (Channing Tatum), who's working as a bartender and starving for cash, accepts an offer from impulsive (and wealthy) Maxandra (Salma Hayek Pinault) to follow her to London and "update" a dusty play called Isabel Ascendant that's showing at the theatre she was awarded in her divorce settlement ... and make it sexy (but "safe").  In what's hopefully the last of these movies - Tatum is, after all, in his 40's - there's hardly any story (a couple of "squares"  pop up to gripe about the production) and it mostly exists to show the dancing sequences and chuck in a few loaded phrases ("systemic economic inequality," "entrenched male power structures") to give would-be analysts/defenders some writing material.  Soderbergh only really comes alive whenever his films have a section where they "have to put a team together," and the scene where the blokes have to "woo" a bureaucrat on a bus is fun (albeit brief).  Imagine what the reaction would be if there was a heterosexual man on stage who openly expressed an interest in various types of women.  Siri, play the song "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" by Louis XIV....