First Official Movie Review!

Bridget was kind enough to write the first official movie review for Miller's Online Outpost. How a woman with a three week old has time to go to the movies and then actually write a review is beyond me (oh yeah, and she's finishing her thesis too), but she happily continues to set the standard so high that I'm sure I will feel like a massive failure when I inevitably won't even be able to find time to take a shower. Anyway, here is what she thought:

Ben, Paige, and I went to see the movie Wild Hogs last weekend. Why did we choose to see that movie on our first theatre outing with a baby, you ask? Well, mostly because Ben refused to go to Music and Lyrics and by the time we got to the theatre, Premonition had already started and we figured that’s probably a movie you want to see the beginning of. Wild Hogs was pretty much the only other movie we could agree on. So, now I’ll be the first to post a movie review on the Miller family blog. ☺

Wild Hogs is a comedy starring John Travolta, William H. Macy, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence who play 4 friends all frustrated with their personal lives. They are occasional motorcycle riders (you wouldn’t call them bikers) who hang out with each other on the weekends to ride to their favorite restaurant/bar for a drink. John Travolta’s character convinces the group that they need to get away on a cross-country ride and discover America, themselves, the road . . . it sounds like a mid-life crisis kind of thing. Anyway, eventually they all agree and off they go. The rest of the movie recaps their crazy adventures from starting fires to skinny-dipping to angering a group of “real” bikers. As you would expect, this movie has some really dumb moments but some funny ones as well. It didn’t get good reviews (in fact it got terrible reviews) but did anyone honestly think that it was going to win awards? If you like the main actors, then you’ll probably be entertained. And even though they sound like an unlikely group of friends, it works somehow.

Bottom Line: It’s not going to make it into my top 10 favorite movies (or even into my top 50), but it did make me laugh. It’s a good compromise if your husband suddenly develops a strong aversion to “chick flicks” but I’d suggest you wait for it to come out on video because it’s not quite worth a trip to the theatre (especially if you’re taking a long a 2 ½ week old).