The Wild Hogs of the title aren’t exactly a biker gang. They just pretend to be one on weekends and for the occasional ride during the week. But Doug (Tim Allen) and his crew have all hit something of a milestone. Actually, it’s a mid-life crisis. Just don’t tell them that.

So one day on their ride they decide that they are ready to take a real ride. A cross-country ride. And what a ride it will be, with the wind in their hair (or what hair they have left, at any rate) and a real chance at freedom. Or at least as close as they are probably going to get at any point in the near future.

What follows is something like a cross between RV and National Lampoon’s Vacation. With a bunch of middle-aged guys on motorcycles.

Along the way, they have the requisite encounter with their masculinity (including the police officer who wants to join in their romp and the family they scare away), they run across a “real” biker gang and manage to burn down their hang out and run out of gas – which means those real bikers get a chance to catch up to them before they can get away.

Naturally things all work out in the end (and make sure that you stick around for the Extreme Makeover bit during the final credits, it is perhaps the best part of the movie), but along the way, it’s a pretty decent ride.

As with most movies of this sort, it’s never going to win many fans of real cinema, and that’s okay. It’s not meant for those people. But it’s certainly a good movie to sit down and watch with the family – or even if you want to just catch a piece of bubblegum fluff one lazy weekend afternoon.

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and some violence.

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