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Wild Hogs
Touchstone Pictures

Wild Hogs reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 27 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.4 out of 10
based on 29 reviews
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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  |  Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Brad Copeland  
DIRECTED BY: Walt Becker  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: August 14, 2007 
Theatrical: March 2, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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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.
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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.
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50
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Jokes dying on the lips of these easy riders are hard to stomach.
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50
Premiere Laine Ewen
While each actor is talented in his own right, the on-screen friends' relationship is barely developed.
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50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Low octane comedy running on fumes.
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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.
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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.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Isn't as jaw-droppingly awful as its trailers suggest.
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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.
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42
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Wild Hogs puts the "ick" into City Slickers.
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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.
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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.
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40
Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
This shallow comedy imagines itself as an amalgam of "St. Elmo's Fire," "The Wild Bunch," and "Deliverance."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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25
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Peter Fonda's cameo appearance is a cute fillip, but hardly worth the wait.
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25
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Abysmal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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0
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Hogwash and not even funny hogwash.
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0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
A 0-star Comedy that is nonetheless guaranteed to rake in multimillions.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.4 (out of 10) based on 126 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sarah W gave it a6:
I believe to appreciate this movie you need to know someone who might have or is experiencing a midlife crisis as these men are. Very easy to follow and understand. The laughs are throughout the movie and even after when you think of the statements and scenes in the movie.

Mike p gave it a0:
A bunch of washed up middle aged actors trying to make one last decent film. Failure.

Jason L. gave it a0:
Dear Mr Travolta, please stop. end.

Camille F. gave it a2:
Saw this movie on the plane coming back home. Some good laughs (quite few in my opinion) and lots of missed chances. If you're looking for a movie you don't actually have to listen in order to grasp the storyline fairly (I must have fell dosed on it a couple of times and still perfectly understood what was going on), this on should please you, though I know quite a few more I would recommend first.

The Spinner gave it a1:
What the f... were they thinking? And what about Ray Liotta and Peter Fonda? Are they THAT desperate?

Jared B. gave it an8:
I just bought a copy of "Wild Hogs" on DVD. Two days later, I am still laughing. This was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The cast was brilliant, especially Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence. Marisa Tomei, best known for her Oscar-winning role in "My Cousin Vinny", is perfect as William H. Macy's love interest. As hilarious as this movie was, I saw a couple of things it could have done without. First, the skinny-dipping scene. If there's one thing I don't like, it's seeing the naked backsides of four middle-aged men on screen. The other problem I had was the gay highway patrolman. Normally, John C. McGinley cracks me up. Here, unfortunately, He is way over-the-top. These are the only two things that kept me from giving this movie a 10. However, besides these complaints, I loved this movie. It is hilarious.

Steven M. gave it a3:
Mildly funny, wildly homophobic. Wow, the family values are on display here from Disney: Lots of jokes about over-bearing wives controlling their husbands and gays. Homosexuals take a beating here as a daft cop and a prancing thug are the only gay men represented, add in "Deliverence" jokes and this film probably was well-loved by Pat Robertson. I expect Allen, Travolta and Larwrence to do this film, but what is Macy here for? Gosh, he was great in "Fargo."

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