Wild Hogs [M]

Meet the Wild Hogs, a group of four ho-hum suburban middle-aged men who decide to put some real miles on their bikes and go for a cross-country road trip. It all starts out well until they have a run with a real biker gang called the Del Fuegos who don’t take too kindly to posers. With nowhere to hide, the Wild Hogs are about to discover that freedom comes at a cost. 

This has to be one of my all-time favourite screwball comedy classics. It had everything right. It was a great story, had a rocking soundtrack, was filled with hysterical and memorable characters, and had the right amount of violence, comedy, and love. 

Meet the Wild Hogs: Doug, Woody, Bobby, and Dudley. Four middle-aged men living in suburbia, each with his own problems and only riding their bikes on the weekend and after work. One day they decide to put some real miles on their bikes and go on a cross-country road trip to discover America. The trip starts out well until their get into a scruff with a gang of real bikers called the Del Fuegos who don’t take too kindly to posers. After accidentally enraging the Del Fuegos, there’s nowhere to hide and the Wild Hogs are going to learn that freedom comes at a cost. 

This is a perfect comedy. It has a solid story that lends itself to much comical interpretation. What’s great about it too is that it had the potential to get a little silly and unbelievable, but it held back. That’s what makes a good comedy: knowing how far you can push it for it to be funny and knowing when you’ve pushed it too far. Priceless. 

The other thing that made this movie so funny was the chemistry between the leading actors. It’s such an unusual mix to begin with and, combined, the four leading hogs were just brilliant. 

Although all of the actors were awesome, one performance that does stand out, for me, is that of John Travolta. He is hysterically funny when he’s under pressure and it’s wonderful to watch him sweat and squirm. In this film he’s charming, persistent, scared, and stubborn. Absolutely wonderful. 

Starring Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H Macy, Wild Hogs is a laugh-out-loud road comedy filled with slapstick humour, sexual and gay innuendos, nudity, animal cruelty, rough scraps, and showdowns. An instant comedy classic, one that I can always come back to and enjoy.