Will You See 'Magic Mike'?

"Magic Mike," a new Channing Tatum movie about male strippers in Tampa, is out in theaters today. In Bradenton it is playing at the and the

Tatum, a Tampa Catholic High School graduate, assured TBO.com that the film is not about his own real-life experiences as a stripper in — where else? — Tampa.

Tatum worked for eight months at a club called Joy that later shut down. He danced under the pseudonym Chan Crawdord.

He told TBO.com:

Look, I'll just be really, really, honest; the only thing that is really me, the only factual truths, I was 18 when I went into this thing (stripping)," Tatum said in Miami last week. "I dropped out of college, I played football and I had a sister.

"And the rest of it is completely made up."

At the same time, he said in a Tampa Bay Times story and in other national media interviews that his tenure as a Tampa stripper definitely was the inspiration for this movie:

"This is just me growing up in Tampa, loving it . . . an 18-year-old kid thrown in with these crazy men who had been stripping for a long time, kind of losing themselves. I probably lost myself for a little while."

The movie co-stars Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer, who also play roles as male strippers. The plot revolves around Magic Mike, a veteran male dancer, teaching a new dancer the secrets of making money in the trade.

and other areas around Tampa Bay.

Currently, the movie holds an aggregate review of 82% from critics and 83% from audiences on Rottentomatoes.com.

Theaters around the area are playing the film and you see a movie trailer here.

Now that the movie is out in theaters, share your thoughts.

How do you feel about a film based in Tampa about the strip club scene?

Are you planning to see the movie because you're a Tatum fan, you want to see the local scenes on the big screen — or both?