Wild Hogs
Sunday afternoon movie? They still do it?
A group of suburban biker wannabes looking for adventure hit the open road, but get more than they bargained for when they encounter a New Mexico gang called the Del Fuegos.
You know, I really thought those “ok funny” comedies died a long time ago. And by “ok funny” I mean those comedies with some near impossible plot, not so funny, which do the minimum to be called “comedy”. Not that they are bad, anyway.
I must say that the main casting was half well chosen. Tim Allen can make something look funny even when he looks serious; Martim Lawrence also is not bad. Now William Macy still doing the same old “geek” persona is getting so tired is not even funny anymore. And, on the top of the worst, we have John Travolta. His acting seems to be going down the drain for a long time already but, on this movie, it goes deep down. You can believe Tim Allen character doing the things he does in real life, same for Lawrence and, in a certain point, to Macy. But Travolta is the thing that you can’t even believe it is a person. Even his persona is impossible to exist in the movie.
The story is a little bit dull but, as I pointed before, it is a “ok funny” comedy. And, for a comedy, it is pretty good: middle age men decide to run around the country trying to “find themselves again”. And that’s all. You can come with a lot of troubles those guys manage to get when running around in their bikes.
As any “sunday afternoon comedy”, it is a good comedy for a lazy sunday afternoon…
