So I still had Wild Hogs on my computer and I wanted to clear up the space and I didn’t want to have deleted it without watching it so I watched it. And it was good. Laugh-out-loud good. I think a few things made it, in many ways, actually better than Dan in Real Life.

1. It was waaay better directed. Walt Becker of Van Wilder fame was the man responsible. Good on him.
2. I wasn’t expecting a realistic story, so I never felt cheated. It was a fun romp. Yeah, I said it.
3. Here, too, like Dan in Real Life, a lot of the subtext and character motivation was made obvious, but for some reason it felt more acceptable than it did in DIRL. I’m not sure I can explain why. Maybe it’s because I was expecting DIRL to be an “intellectual” movie, and it let me down, whereas I had no such expectations for Wild Hogs.

All in all, I understand why it made $168m domestically, and I can see its obvious appeal to the 30-65 demographic (that’s a major one, I hear). Can’t wait for the sequel.

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