Steven Soderbergh is a chameleon. 

His films are more experimental in choice than most other filmmakers. All are radically different (with the "Ocean's 11" sequels as an exception) from each other as he searches for something unique to either say or technically achieve. Some, like "Sex, Lies and Videotape," and "Bubble" push boundaries and step outside the Hollywood box, while others like last fall's "Contagion" and the "Ocean's" movies are mainstream cash cows.
 
"Magic Mike," Soderbergh's third film in less than a year (his other was "Haywire"), is another one of those experiments. It's an unusual project for the director , but it achieves little more than putting a new, albeit mediocre, spin on the usually female-dominated stripper film by focusing on male dancers instead.
 
"Magic Mike" is a run-of-the-mill character study about two different men; Mike (Channing Tatum),