‘Hail Caesar!’ is on Netflix, So Let Channing Tatum Tap Dancing Cure Your Depression

Channing Tatum‘s tap dance scene in Hail Caesar! is one of my favorite movie theater memories of all time. It’s right up there with Lil Rel Howery showing up to save the day in Get Out, Eddie Redmayne screaming “I CREATE LIFE!” in Jupiter Ascending, and the vampires going off book for an epic battle in Breaking Dawn Part 2—which is to say, it had me screaming with surprised, joyful laughter from my seat. None of us will be making new movie theater memories any time soon, but luckily I can relive at least one of those moments over and over again, now that Hail Caesar! is streaming on Netflix.

If you didn’t catch Hail Caesar! in theaters, this 2016 Coen Brothers film is a fictional comedy starring Josh Brolin as the real-life film executive Eddie Mannix. Mannix was known as a “fixer” of celebrity scandals in the 1950s. George Clooney stars as a handsome leading man-type actor, Alden Ehrenreich plays a young Western cowboy actor, Ralph Fiennes plays as a snooty European film director, and Scarlett Johansson plays an actress/synchronized swimmer. Think of this movie along the same lines as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but with a little less blood and a lot more song and dance.

No one gets more song and dance than Tatum, who, as anyone who’s ever seen Magic Mike or Step Up knows, is an excellent dancer. But while you’ve seen him sexily use a power drill while stripping, you’ve never seen Tatum dance quite like this before. In Hail Caesar!, he plays a Gene Kelly-type actor, and though we don’t spend much time with him, we do get to witness a musical number he films, featuring him and 20 or so men in sailor costumes, tap dancing their little sailor hearts out.

The number they sing is “No Dames,” an original song performed by Tatum. On the surface, it’s sailors lamenting the fact that they won’t be seeing women out on the sea, but it quickly becomes clear, as they all dance with each other, that Tatum and the rest of the sailors aren’t interested in women at all. It’s a cheeky wink to the barely-contained gay undertones of classic Hollywood musical numbers, as well as a wink to the barely-closeted men who performed them. I guess there is some overlap with Magic Mike after all.

But it’s also just really great tap-dancing. Fans of classic musicals like Anything Goes and Singing in the Rain won’t be able to wipe a smile from their face. Tatum’s athleticism is unreal—the man is leaping through the air from tables to ladders like it’s nothing!—and yes, that is really him performing all of those moves. It’s five minutes of pure fun, and I thank choreographer Christopher Gattelli for his contribution to the world’s distressingly low supply of joy.

I mentioned the whole “Hail Caesar! is on Netflix now” thing, right? So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and watch it! I can’t promise it will fully cure your depression, but I do think it will come close.

Where to watch Hail Caesar!