Wild Hogs

What a riot.. great movie, great story line, touches the soul.. well, maybe not, but it's great.

I could tell it was going to be fun when I noticed all the couples my age (40 summin) at the popcorn stand acting like giddy little kids. Guys were bumping their girls, making candy and make-out jokes and such. I'm not saying that "we" don't identify with the younger crowd, but there's something to say about a movie that talks to me.

It's kinda funny that the message every guy wants to tell his wife comes in the first few minutes of the movie; "Look, I'm a man, and a husband, and a father, but sometimes I just need to be free. I'm wild, I'm a crazy teen inside, I'm a moron (but you already knew that)".

Without spoiling the movie, it's basically a bunch of friends that decide that they need a break from the day to day, and hit the road on their bikes without a plan. Keyword here ladies: without a plan. If follows them on their trek to the coast and their trials and tribulations along the way. It is kinda slapsticky, but it works.

Being a rider, there are scenes that just take your breath away, and make you want to hit the road too.

I can't think of any other movie premise that these four guys could work together in either. There's the ultra sucessful guy whose life sucks but no one knows, the former crazy youth turned suburban dad, the computer geek who's crying out to be cool and the "yes dear, no dear, whatever you say dear" guy who uses the trip as his escape. "Dudly" (William H. Macey) kills me. Think "Fargo meets Revenge of the Nerds".

All in all, it's good fun.