gibsonguy335
When you ride a motorcycle, sometimes it's really hot and sometimes it's really cold. Sometimes it rains and sometimes you get bugs smashed against your face shield and jacket. Occasionally you ride and everything is perfect (like the pictures you see on motorcycle ads). To a real motorcyclist, you are willing to put up with all those discomforts to enjoy the freedom of the ride. Motorcycles do not have climate control and a sound proof cabin with a built in entertainment system. People who need those things will never get motorcycling and they will never get this movie. This movie is about 4 middle aged guys who realize what they have been doing for the past 20 years is exactly what they will be doing for the next 20 years.....and then they will grow old and die. Doug, Bobby, Dudley and Woody make the decision that they are going to leave their continual, hum-drum existence for a week or two and do something different for once in their lives. Can they escape their mundane lives long enough to actually get free? People who are happy to run out their lives just doing the same thing over and over again will never get Wild Hogs. If there is a Doug or a Bobby or a Dudley or a Woody inside of you, you will love this movie. For anybody else, Wild Hogs will be a pointless waste of time they could have otherwise dedicated to doing more of the same thing over and over again.
SnoopyStyle
Doug is a dentist who feels stymied by his life and his diet restrictions. Bobby is a wife-whipped plumber who has to return to work after a year of trying to write his book. Dudley is a bumbling computer programmer. Woody is broke getting divorced from his model wife. All four guys find relief riding their Harleys as the Wild Hogs. Woody suggests putting some real miles on their bikes. They get in trouble with a gay cop (John C. McGinley) and a motorcycle gang led by Jack (Ray Liotta). Dudley finds love with diner owner (Marisa Tomei).The first time McGinley appears is where the movie lost me. It is borderline offensive without actually being funny. The silly gay jokes keep coming along with a menagerie of other silly jokes. I did laugh a couple of time. Mostly I was laughing at how stupid the movie gets. I do feel sorry for the guys who seem to have a little bit of chemistry. If only they write some heart-felt material for them, this would be a good road movie. I usually like a good rood movie but this is too idiotic.
matty_mushroom1983
Cliché, usual, slap dash, typical, corny, cheesy, yep. Funny too.... Oh come on, it's a crap movie OK, it really is! All the characters are sculpted from a mould I use to cut my daughters sandwiches for school. (There's a puzzle price one, some hello kitty's...) The midlife realisation guy leads the tough-when-I-was-young guy, the clueless dweeb and the black guy (because that's really all he is...I every movie he plays...the black guy...) on a midlife adventure, they're followed by a creepy gay cop, and bullied by Ray Leotta (who for some reason has the drying upper lip over ever seen, it's keeps getting stuck above his teeth) who keeps hitting his closet-case, dumb-as-dung side kick for being himself. I stopped expecting fresh, inspiring, realistic art a looooong time ago. It use to get to me, but now I see opportunity in the B grade perspective. Twilight, Demolition man, Big Mommas house, grade A budgets with b grade results. My favourite smug past time. But I couldn't possibly give one more than 5 stars.
classicsoncall
What an incredibly sad waste of talent from an ensemble cast of well known actors who should have known better. Ostensibly this was one of those mid-life crisis films that held promise with it's four male leads, but the effort got squandered early and never really made up for it. Now individually, I like Travolta, Allen and Macy; haven't seen enough of Martin Lawrence to make the same judgment. However putting them all together was a classic case of getting less with more. On top of that, with John Travolta's recent bad press regarding his alleged homo-erotic behavior, that skinny dipping scene in the pond was all the more troubling. To be fair, there were a couple of scenes that elicited a chuckle, but I can't even remember what they were now. So much for being memorable. I read another review on this board from a viewer who wished he had seen more of Marisa Tomei; for that I'd recommend "The Wrestler". If you've seen it you'll know what I mean.
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