Gay cop in wild hogs

There's something almost indescribably depressing about Wild Hogs. It's not that it's actually badly made, it's just soulless, boring, formulaic and utterly convinced that its audience won't care. Aimed, one imagines, at middle-aged men, Hogs is the story of four ageing bikers - John Travolta, William H Macy, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence - whose various home crises prompt them to dig out their old leather jackets and take one last trip into the wilderness. Out on the road, our heroes are stalked by a gay traffic cop and fall foul of a proper biker gang, led by Ray Liotta on his usual psychotic autopilot.

His newfound interest prompted a move to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which preceded stage roles both on and off-Broadway. His television debut arrived with a two-year stint on the daytime soap "Another World" NBC, from to , which was followed soon after by his screen debut in "Sweet Liberty" starring Alan Alda. McGinley was cast as Red O'Neill, a cowardly sergeant who survives the film's climatic assault by hiding beneath the bodies of dead North Vietnamese soldiers. The Oscar-winning film helped to establish McGinley's screen image as a brusque, fast-talking but morally questionable authority figure, and was the first of several subsequent films McGinley made with Stone.

Wild Hogs boasts an all-star cast of old pros with a collective career span of 94 years. This is relevant because Wild Hogs is a movie about middle age and the kind of life lessons people pick up as the clock ticks on. Macy, are all in the throws of middle age and should have learned by now to avoid stinkers like this. With almost years of experience between them they are old enough to know better.

I open that way because, when I think about Wild Hogs , I immediately go to a dinner scene near the beginning of the movie where Tim Allen, enjoying a meal with his family, has a complete and total mental break. He begins to chug straight from the gravy boat. He bites into a stick of butter like a banana. We then cut to Tim Allen in the hospital.