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61
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57
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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49
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48
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47
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44
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41
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37
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37
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37
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36
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36
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35
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34
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34
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80
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79
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79
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78
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75
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74
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74
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73
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72
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Wild Hogs
Touchstone Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and some violence
Starring
Tim Allen,
John Travolta,
Martin Lawrence,
William H. Macy,
Ray Liotta,
Marisa Tomei,
Kevin Durand,
and
M.C. Gainey
A rollicking comedy-adventure about a group of middle-aged friends who decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip. As they go looking for adventure, they soon find that they've embarked on a journey they will never forget. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Brad Copeland
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Walt Becker
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 14, 2007
Theatrical: March 2, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
99 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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60
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
With its clever premise and quartet of appealing comedic star turns, Wild Hogs is a step above the typical comedies rolling off the assembly lines of the major studios.

50
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Given his writer-producer credits on good-to-great recent sitcoms ("My Name Is Earl," "Arrested Development," "Grounded for Life"), one might expect more situational wit, or at least some snappy patter, from Brian Copeland's first bigscreen script. Instead, the humor rests primarily on slapstick wipeouts that have no physical consequence.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Jokes dying on the lips of these easy riders are hard to stomach.

50
Premiere
Laine Ewen
While each actor is talented in his own right, the on-screen friends' relationship is barely developed.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Low octane comedy running on fumes.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie is this year's "RV," a rolling tent show of suburban male anxieties: castration, obsolescence, dismissive offspring, fears of gayness. LOTS of fears of gayness. Unlike "RV," though, Wild Hogs is funny. Eventually.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Wild Hogs is a paint-by-numbers comedy, borrowing most of its broad strokes from sitcoms, and not clever ones like "The Office" and 3"0 Rock," either.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Isn't as jaw-droppingly awful as its trailers suggest.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The first midlife crisis movie apparently made with 8-year-olds in mind, Walt Becker's Wild Hogs brings several talents together for a single, clear purpose: to pay off their mortgages.

42
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Wild Hogs puts the "ick" into City Slickers.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nothing about this sputtering midlife-crisis family comedy is natural except the timeless notion that even the most latte-tamed baby boomer has the power to reclaim his inner Iron John. Ray Liotta provides the one true blast of comedic energy as the leader of a real, more pugnacious head-butting gang who tangles with the four amigos.

40
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
With his doughy face and oversized features, Travolta seems like a giant puppet these days. The lanky stud from "Urban Cowboy" or even the cool killer from "Pulp Fiction" are hazy memories amidst his over-the-top performance from the school of freak-out acting.

40
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky
This shallow comedy imagines itself as an amalgam of "St. Elmo's Fire," "The Wild Bunch," and "Deliverance."

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie never rises to the level of the professional, much less the comic. The gags are witless and surprisingly gross. The four actors, each accustomed to being at the center, never develop any rhythm, any chemistry, any anything.

40
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Allen, who have never aspired very far beyond their affable television-comedy personas, are easier to watch than Mr. Travolta or Mr. Macy, who both undertake what can only be called acting. This is more than the picture deserves, but then again, so is Ray Liotta, as the chieftain of the bad bikers, and so is Ms. Tomei.

40
Empire
Staff (Not credited)
Sounds great, with this cast of men of a certain age on big scary two wheeled monsters. Unfortunately it only pulls it off in places.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Wild Hogs is more tired, worn out, and sagging than its protagonists - an arthritic comedy whose humor is below mediocre and whose drama is cringe-worthy.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
From the embarrassingly over-the-top performance of Ray Liotta as a tough-guy biker to the pratfalls of William H. Macy as a bumbling computer geek, this movie stinks of exhaust and desperation.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Slack direction from Walt Becker (National Lampoon's Van Wilder) sullies this formula comedy, but the cast is agreeable.

30
Los Angeles Times
Sam Adams
By the time it sputters across the finish line, Wild Hogs feels as if it's gone on forever -- like a trip in a hot car with the windows rolled up. The air is stale and hard to breathe, and it sure feels good when it's over.

25
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Peter Fonda's cameo appearance is a cute fillip, but hardly worth the wait.

25
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Abysmal.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
They go on a biker trip from Cincinnati to the West Coast because they are tired of being bored and would prefer to bore us instead.

25
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Macy's character finds romance with the Madrid, N. M., diner owner played by Marisa Tomei. They're the only two people on screen who relate in any way. But there's no movie here. There is only a tired "City Slickers"-inspired idea for a movie.

0
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The subculture of weekend warrior bikers is such rich comic material that the ineptitude of Wild Hogs is doubly offensive.

0
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Wild Hogs, which includes a cameo by a live revenant from "Easy Rider," gives a bad name to carpe diem, but could have been worse; the trip might have started from Bangor.
0
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
An indolent, PG-13, Disney "biker" flick that does for comedies what Exxon did for Prince William Sound.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Hogwash and not even funny hogwash.

0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
A 0-star Comedy that is nonetheless guaranteed to rake in multimillions.


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