Wild Hogs: A Short Review

No wait, that's not entirely true. I had a feeling as to why, but my assumptions were made more concrete with a viewing. Wild Hogs is a predictable, easy, and totally by-the-book comedy, and people really love that.
It's not a bad movie in any technical sense - it has all the right jokes from all the right actors. But that's just it - it does everything right that's been done a billion times before - nothing here is new, or fresh, and by far nothing more than a mere chuckle (and that's literally a handful at best). So, in a technical sense it's done well - and it's easy to swallow, with not a lot of thinking and nothing new to understand. So, in a summer of lackluster movies (besides the ever-popular Potter and Pirate films), Wild Hogs hit the road to the tune of $168,213,584 and 25,681,463 tickets. What the hell are people thinking?
They were seeing stars, is what it was. Four big-name comedic and dramatic actors, in roles so typical I could probably play them all myself - John Travolta as the 'tough guy", Martin Lawrence as the "Token Funny Black Guy", William H. Macy as the "Computer Nerd", and Tim Allen as the "Well Rounded Everyman". The foursome set out on a road trip to take back their manhood and reclaim their lost sense of adventure (a plot not often used in comedy), and hilarity ensues, with everything from the numerous gay jokes to the run-in with the "real men of the road" bikers. It's a formula for laughs, which is EXACTLY why it gets few at best.
My recommendation: Skip it. It's by no means a difficult to watch movie, but I wouldn't pay one red cent to see this. If someone already has, you might as well humor them with a friendly viewing - at least then someone will be sending some humor their way. Yeah, the quality of the jokes are as bad as that one right there.