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.
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This is one of those movies that surprises you – or at least it did me. Quite frankly, I don’t even remember why it was that we watched it. Perhaps it was a suggestion from a friend. But whatever the reason, we decided that we’d sit down with the family and see if it was any good. In the end, we were glad that we did.
It definitely starts off a bit slowly – in the not-to-distant future, Noah (Chris O’Neil) and his sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) going through some toys such as stuffed animals, trying to find something to do with them. It’s really a scene that most parents today might see at any point in any life. But then something a bit unusual happens.
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Luther and Nora Krank typically spend their Christmas season with everyone. The emphasis here is on spend. With so many holiday decorations and parties, last year they spent more than six thousand dollars. This year, however, their daughter Blair is joining the Peace Corps, and so they’re on their own. Luther Krank (Tim Allen) has an idea. Since Blair isn’t going to be home, and he and Nora will have all this time to be alone, why not just skip Christmas entirely?
As an accountant, it actually works out great. As a man, he knows he can’t get away with just ducking the holiday, so he comes up with a plan: They’ll take a cruise. Even after planning for a full cruise package, they are going to come out thousands of dollars ahead. Assuming that they can duck all of their standard holiday commitments, and that isn’t going to be an easy task. The first thing he has to do is sell his wife on the idea. It turns out that will be the easy part of it.
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That cuddly green ogre Shrek (Mike Myers) has returned for the third go-round, and this time the stakes are a bit higher. King Harold (John Cleese) has croaked (he’s a frog, get it, he croaked?) and with one of his last breaths (he had several) he has left the reins of Far Far Away in the hands of Shrek and Fiona (Cameron Diaz).
Naturally, Shrek is thinking mostly of himself, and he isn’t really interested. He just wants to go back to the swamp. So before the king dies, he asks if there is another option. Luckily, there is one. His name is Arthur. That’s all that Shrek needs to hear. There is someone else who can handle running things and get dressed up, and he and Fiona can get out of there. So he and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss (Antonio Banderas) board a ship and head out to find Arthur.
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Hapless Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is in danger of losing his son, Nick (Jake Cherry). He’s not really concerned about his ex-wife, but Nick? That worries him. Especially when Nick mentions that he’s ready to hang up his hockey skates and start practicing to be a stockbroker, like his new dad, Don (Paul Rudd).
Spurred on by the thought of losing his son’s hockey career to the over-achieving Don – or at least to his utility belt of cell phones, Larry decides that he needs to get on with his life and do something. So begging for a job at the unemployment office, he begs for just about anything. What he gets is something that no one would have expected.
You see, Larry gets a job as a night watchman and the Museum of Natural History. And as they say, history has a way of coming to life. It’s never been more true than it is at this place after they lock the doors for the night.
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Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is ready to treat the family to a completely new sort of vacation – in Las Vegas! Of course, if you know Clark, you know that he doesn’t always think things through, and though his plan this time around seems to be to spend time with his family (as always), he is sidetracked (as always) by the allure of making easy money at the gambling tables.
Naturally he is joined by his lovely wife Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo), and they also bring along kids Audrey (Marisol Nichols) and Rusty (Ethan Embry). As with the prior films in the “series”, in this go-round where the kids are played by different actors than their predecessors.
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When Memphis (Hugh Jackman) drops the egg of his baby penguin during the long, cold, Antarctic winter, he is afraid that he may have literally dropped the ball. But luckily – for him – the baby does hatch, albeit a bit later than the other penguins, and Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman) won’t be upset when she returns from the feeding grounds.
But when young Mumble (Elijah Wood) can’t seem to find his heart song, Memphis blames himself. In this Disney-fied tale (which is actually by Fox), the penguins grow up, and sing their heart song in order to find their mate. Without such a song, Mumble is not only doomed to live out his life on his own, he is just about a disgrace. To make matters worse, he does this thing… with his feet.
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Claire (Emma Roberts) and Hailey (Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque) are two girls coasting through summer vacation with their normal problems – namely that they are younger than all the “cool” kids – until they find out that they are about to be split up forever, and then their problems get much, much worse.
Until a freak storm throws the beach club into complete disarray. That at first seems like a disaster because the end-of-summer party might get canceled. But then something extraordinary happens. They find Aquamarine (Sara Paxton) in the bottom of the pool, along with a bunch of other ocean debris. How did this happen, you may ask? Easy. Aqua is a mermaid. That’s when things get interesting.
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When Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives the hundred-year-old telegram from Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) at the end of Back to the Future Part 2, telling him that he’s alive and well in the Old West, it also has another tidbit of information – that he’s hidden the time machine in an old cave outside of town. But Marty needs some help getting it running.
So he returns to town just in time to see himself leave to go back to the future for the first time, and he surprises the original Doc (the 1955 Doc), and tells him all about what’s happening. Or at least, enough so that he doesn’t know anything about his future, because Marty doesn’t know that Doc has read the note that he gave him, telling him about the terrorists in the original Back to the Future.
With Doc on board, he gets some help getting the DeLorean back up and running, and using the Mr. Fusion to generate the power, Marty heads back to 1885 to see if he can rescue Doc and head back to 1985 – which will hopefully be the same as they left it!
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Family on January 26th, 2007 by Chad Everett
The chickens of Tweedy Chicken Farm are generally content, with the possible exception of Ginger (Julia Sawalha). She seems to be the only one who realizes that things may be fine if you are laying eggs, but as soon as the eggs stop, things aren’t so good for chickens.
Let’s face it, chickens may not be the brightest, but Ginger is a different sort, so she’s constantly planning how to escape from the farm. She just has one problem, and that’s that to get one or two chickens out is easy. To get the whole lot out is a different matter entirely.
One day, as the chickens are going about their normal business, they get a visitor from outside – quite unusual indeed, but even more so because he arrives by flying, and most chickens can’t fly. Ginger is downright ecstatic.
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