Wild Hogs

Apr 13 2007 By The Journal

Plot: Worn down by the stress of their middle-aged lives and the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood, four forty-something pals - Doug Madsen (Allen), Woody Stevens (Travolta), Bobby Davis (Lawrence) and Dudley Frank (Macy) - decide to escape reality on a cross-country motorcycle trip.

Out on the open road, the quartet burns rubber for a series of `hilarious' misadventures and a fractious encounter with a real-life biker gang called the Del Fuegos, led by hot head Jack (Ray Liotta).

A stopover in a pretty town, where Dudley falls under the spell of café owner Maggie, sets the scene for a showdown between the two motorcycle tribes.

Verdict: Director Walt Becker and screenwriter Brad Copeland should be ashamed. Seldom does a mainstream Hollywood film so gleefully and intentionally peddle prejudice for laughs.

Wild Hogs soon degenerates into a series of offensive and frankly rather embarrassing pokes at male sexuality.

Evidently American audiences have no problem with such appalling, crass writing - Wild Hogs has taken over $135m at the box office.

I pray British audiences give this hog the roasting it deserves and leave it to wallow in its intolerance and inexcusable puerility.