Wild Hogs (2007)

You know what? I’ve seen worse movies in my life than Wild Hogs. But I have seen a lot better. My main problem with Wild Hogs is my main problem with a lot of terrible comedies-they are not funny. This movie is not funny. And most of the characters don’t even strike any resonance with the viewer. The only main character of the four that you care about is William H. Macy, who plays Dudley, a smart, but, kind-of-stupid computer programmer. He is one of four members of the ‘Wild Hogs’, a group of suburban middle-aged friends (or so they say. The four are played by three 60-year-old guys, and then, a 40-year-old Martin Lawrence) who ride motorcycles on the weekends. These four are Doug (Tim Allen), a boring dentist, Woody (John Travolta), a boring rich lawyer, Dudley (William H. Macy), a somewhat non-boring computer geek, and Bobby (Martin Lawrence), a boring plumber. So, in order for them to get rid of some stress they have, they go on a cross-country trip, where they meet a rugged team of actual bikers. They quickly get into a fight, and John Travolta lights their barn on fire. They run for the hills, and meet up in a town where they are loved, and then the bikers come, and there’s a standoff, and they capture Dudley-honestly. A six-year-old could have come up with the plot for this movie. Heck, a six-year-old could have written the script. Yeah-I’m kind of angry at this film. It’s just so incompetent and unfunny, offensive and harmful. This is an extremely mean-spirited film. Most of the jokes rely on homophobia, and they aren’t even good jokes. What we have learned in Hollywood is that you can get away with being offensive (or at least, get in less trouble) if the product is good. For example, I believe that Mel Gibson is one of the single greatest actors in this day-and-age. He is a slimy racist mean person, but he is a brilliant actor. And I see that because he brings a good product forward. Here, not even the offensive stuff is amusing. And that is a new low in my book.
2/10