Wild Hogs (2007)

Fresh and Exciting

Beautiful, moving film.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A few nights ago, I had the pleasure of watching a movie that fired on all cylinders; it was that rare bird that I expect achieved everything and more, from all involved, that it set out to be in its original imagining. This waste of 2 hours is its absolute inverse. The script is banal even for a popcorn flick, the humour, such as it is, flat to the point of feeling uncomfortable for the actors tasked to recite them, the characters cartoonish - even for what is at best a live action cartoon in and of itself - and the acting nightmarishly awful; even the usually reliable William Macy coasts on what could only be a self-referential parody of the milquetoast persona he knows the public expects of him by now. Travolta's input is particularly atrocious - one would think the man had never acted outside a high school play, though with the pablum substituting for dialog he was given to recite, perhaps he just decided it wasn't worth the effort. It's not a movie at all, in fact, just a series of flat, unrewarding, pedestrian skits strung together like nuggets of cheap costume jewellery along a slim thread of 2nd unit director establishing, stunt and scenery inserts - mostly (surprise) of 4 guys riding motorcycles. And even with its limited prospects overall, the climax and resolution could not have been more of an eye-rolling, impotently abortive cop-out. Just an abysmal waste of human and technical capital.

This is so predictable, so nauseating that I can't believe these talented men (and women) made this pathetic stupid movie! The premise is, like, written by a 10 year old. The geography is totally out of sequence, mountains and then New Mexico and so forth. One rider has a leather 'helmet' which does nothing for safety. The plot, is there one, is very lame.On several occasions they crash a bike and then instantly they are riding again, no damage. Several times they are violently ejected off the bikes, no injury! I could go on and on. I ride motorcycles and it's nothing like this dumb wasted movie.I am so glad I didn't pay a cent to see it, other than the fact that I lost my time watching it.Pathetic in all ways, avoid it.

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.

I honestly don't see how someone could dislike this film. Apart from serious, big-headed film critics (or wannabe film critics), this flick is bay far one of the funniest and entertaining to come out of Hollywood in the past half-decade.Acting is superb, as you would expect from veterans Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy and John Travolta. The plot is - like most comedies- a little far-fetched, but that being said I think the plot made this movie really fun, assisted with the hilarious lines of William Macy, great direction and excellent overall casting.This is on the must see list.