Sharing directorial duties with Magic Mike scribe Reid Carolin, Tatum’s return to the big screen was marketed as a feel-good movie: a familiar comedy about a dog and a human companion finding trouble and wacky hijinks wherever the road takes them. To Tatum’s credit, Dog is outside of his wheelhouse-at least behind the camera. (He has described Magic Mike’s Last Dance as a “reverse-role Pretty Woman story that ends up with a lot of dancing in it,” and, well, say no more.) These projects aren’t necessarily bringing out a new side of Tatum, but at a time when movie stars continue to be overshadowed by blockbuster franchises, there’s nothing wrong with Hollywood’s most endearing airheads sticking to a winning formula. In addition to The Lost City, Tatum starred in and codirected Dog, a movie about an Army Ranger who’s tasked with driving a troublesome military dog across the country to his handler’s funeral, and has reunited with Steven Soderbergh on a third Magic Mike film that’s currently in production. As Tatum explained in a Variety profile last month, he felt burnt out from taking on too many projects, citing 22 Jump Street and Jupiter Ascending as two movies for which he “didn’t have the energy.” (That Tatum doesn’t believe he brought his A-game to 22 Jump Street makes moments like “My name is Jeff” even more impressive.) Thankfully, Tatum is back in a big way this year. After starring in Logan Lucky and Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 2017, Tatum underwent a self-imposed hiatus, doing only voice work ( Smallfoot, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, America: The Motion Picture) and making a cameo in Free Guy over the past four years. If nothing else, Loretta certainly sees a new side of Alan.Īnd with that-an exposed ass covered in leeches-Channing Tatum announced his glorious return to movie stardom like he was answering a himbo Bat Signal. After Alan escapes a trio of henchmen by jumping into a river, several leeches latch onto his back, a predicament that gets worse when he pulls down his pants and realizes that even more leeches are feasting on his bare ass. Naturally, for a dude who lists being “certified CrossFit” as one of his skills, Alan doesn’t cover himself in glory-in fact, he gets covered in something a bit more horrifying. So when Loretta is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) who believes she’s the only person capable of uncovering the location of a lost treasure on a volcanic island, Alan jumps at the opportunity to be the hero. In The Lost City, a Fabio-esque cover model named Alan (played by Channing Tatum) wants to prove to prolific romance novelist Loretta (Sandra Bullock) that there’s a side of him she hasn’t seen yet.
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