Hilarious, joyful, exuberant play - just let go and enjoy the ride

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2015)

I loved this film. It is hilariously funny, it has a great soundtrack, and watching Tatum dance like melted butter is a joy in itself. It is also filled with all sorts of types of men and women, who are being remarkably kind to each other, it keeps tickling you with the beginnings of what could be stockpile templates but then verges away.
Don't take this film literally – how flimsy is the premise of a lot of fiction films? -, enjoy its visual exuberance, and take the sexual as the embrace of kindness and love for people and longing for connectedness that it is. At one point, Tatum is basically confronted with a version of the argument that his story doesn't add up, and he basically offers a clue to how to read the film when he replies, clumsy-cute: Look this isn't about (fill in literal interpretation of the plot), this is about you and me (putting things behind/doing something together)
This is the joy of play – play as simulation, make belief, the joy of the process and the ride that is life. Written down, this weepy and pathetic whereas the film just offers this up in emotion, movement, and music: Embrace life, joy, and people, as they are, be kind to each other, believe in your dreams and especially your friends – you may fail, but you will try, and the dreaming is part of the fun.