27 August 2007

This week's movie


It has been a while since I saw a really good, funny movie. One that was truly enjoyable to watch, didn't make anyone in the room uncomfortable, and actually made me laugh at loud.

"Wild Hogs" (image stolen from Amazon - please don't sue me fellas! - thanks) is just such a movie. Although it is rated PG-13, other than some vague homosexual (not homophobic) humor and some fairly mild violence, there really isn't anything in the move that could be objectionable. Extremely tame language, no nudity or almost-nudity. No guys ogling or objectifying women.

I believe this movie is as close to laugh-out-loud funny and wholesome as we are going to get in this day and age. The movie stars Tim Allen, John Travolta, William H. Macy, Martin Lawrence and the always hot (but not as hot as you hun) Marisa Tomei. Allen, Travolta, Macy and Lawrence are four middle aged suburbanites who decide to take a cross-country trip on their Harleys.

As one might imagine, four middle aged suburban professionals riding Harleys across the country can and do find themselves in various predicaments. Some strange, all of them funny. It isn't the Jim Carrey slapstick kind of funny either. Each trial they go through, is something you can actually imagine happening in the real world. For those of you who remember "Easy Rider", Peter Fonda's uncredited cameo towards the end really tugs at the heartstrings (ok, not really, but it was cool). I think it is an unwritten rule now, that any move about bikers, or Harleys in general, has to have at least a cameo by Fonda.

1 comments:

Mrs Xoke said...

I watched this last weekend with my parents and it was hysterical! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.