ReaderKenka
Let's be realistic.
Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
rspress
This is not your typical biker film. It is not your typical film period. The closest parallel would be the makers of Airplane or Police Squad do a biker film.The leader of the Bourne Losers biker gang, Bruce (Paul Le Mat) is often so eloquent that his buddies don't understand what he his saying. They are trying to stop the The Woman of the Wolves female biker gang whose leader, She Wolf, was raised by wolfs after her parents abandoned her is in the woods while being chased by the police. The Woman of the Wolves are stealing babies and selling them to the black market.Needless to say much trouble ensues and it is a field day for one liners, zingers and stuff you would not normally see bikers doing. Like a female biker beating a male biker after he took the baby she stole and she delivers the line "Never take a baby from Candy" while she also delivers a beating.Not a bad film for 1989 and it will make you laugh. Check it out if there is nothing else to rent at blockbuster, you need to fill out your Netflix queue or it is on cable.
merrick-3
The reviews decrying this film seem to have genuinely missed the fact that it's a comedy. Sure, all of it is deadpan but really, a biker gang who do a great doo-wop Rock Of Ages? A guy whose mudwrestler girlfriend gets into laundromat machines after work? It's a comedy, folks.The reviewers complaining of the lack of action scenes or soft porn might as well level the same criticisms at Airplane. Indeed, Airplane's a good point of reference with the straight-faced humour, visual gags and touches of surrealism.It plays on many 'good guys seeking out the evil-doers' clichés, and simultaneously on fated-lovers clichés too. The funniest stuff is in the way it plays with gender role and 'wrong side of the tracks' stereotypes.The great and eminently quotable cheesy dialogue and the constant overloud leather-creak whenever anyone moves keep it relentlessly funny from start to finish.If you like the comic edge of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's work in The Evil Dead you'll love this film. If, however, you thought Evil Dead was a straight zombie flick then you'll probably miss the point with this too.
Andrew Benjamin
Easy Wheels is one of those great independent low-budget films. The movie is nararated from the point of view of a reporter who is rescued by the bikers from a car accident. The leader of the Bourne Losers Bruce (Paul Le Mat) and his buddies are looking for another group of bikers known as the The Woman of the Wolves who are being suspected of stealing babies and selling them on the black market. This movie I laughed throughout. Some younger viewers may not get all the jokes, but I think most adults will get the jokes. I recommend this movie to people who drive and/or like biker movies. I also recommend this film to people who like to laugh a lot.10/10
emm
Not even Hell's Angels' wild women in hot leather could save this from burning rubber on the road! EASY WHEELS stands out okay as a satire of biker / exploitation movies, and not as stupid or sleazy as you'd expect from the late 60s. Still, I'm not gonna get all hyped up about smutty women who prove their sense of superiority over the male crowd, nor the tough men wanting sexual desires over the women. The movie seems told on two different points of view here, making this very incoherent. Are the producers really too afraid to make a true feminist biker flick? It worked well for SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS, only on a sleaze state of mind. Biker movies, on the other hand, have seen their day, and although this appeared to have revived the genre a while back, it stales on anything new and original. Not bad, but this wasn't my can of beer. Look for Ben Stein as a church minister.