By Erik Davis
Look, we get it. For many of you out there, Magic Mike XXL isn’t just another summer movie — it’s an experience. it’s a big-screen fantasy served up shirtless and six-packed, ready to grind its way into your permanent memory.
And that’s totally cool — last thing we want to do is tarnish that experience in any way by showing you a video of what it’d look like if Magic Mike XXL was written by little kids instead of, ya know, deliciously brilliant adults.
But we’re gonna show you the video anyway — not just because it’s very funny, but also because all of it is performed by Magic Mike himself, Channing Tatum.
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The bit was staged by Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show — another edition of a segment that asks little kids to write scenes for a movie based only on its title, knowing nothing of the real thing.
Here’s another one Fallon did with Michael Keaton for Birdman.
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Fear not, Magic Mikers — Magic Mike XXL is still coming to a theater near you on July 1. And to wash the little-kidness of that previous video out of your mind — and appropriately whet your, um, appetite for more — here’s that magic trailer.
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