In Venice, California, the leader of Hell's Angels Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) tells his friend Joe 'Loser' Kearns (Bruce Dern) that he had located his stolen motorcycle in Mecca. While trying to retrieve the bike, Loser is shot on the back by a police patrol end goes to the hospital. After the surgery, Blues and the Hell's Angels take Loser from the hospital and he dies. The troublemakers prepare his funeral at Sequoia Groves with a wild party."The Wild Angels" is among the worst movies I have ever seen. This trash directed by Roger Corman is a dated mess with terrible performances, unlikable characters completely lost and a pointless screenplay. The bikers request the service of the preacher to destroy the church? Blues interrupts the preacher's speech to say shallow words but when the Hell's Angels are ready to bury Loser, he says no words to his best friend. The story has the only objective of shocking the audience with rapes, sacrilege and stupid and senseless violence. My vote is one (awful).Title (Brazil): "Os Anjos Selvagens" ("The Wild Angels")

I thought the movie was OK, but just that. Nothing special. I understand why they chose Nancy Sinatra and Peter Fonda; they were bankable. But the rest of the cast, including that overweight middle-aged woman biker Mama Monahan- the way she looked was completely wrong for a biker chick. Good camera work, though. Good job for most of the extras. They looked, acted, and sounded authentic, for the time. Can figure out why a laid-back beach town like Venie would have a Hell's Angel's chapter...Rent it for a good time at home when you can do something else while watching it.

No one like Roger Corman has been able to get into the zeitgeist of any particular time, but that doesn't mean he comes out on top with every movie. This one, in particular, is not bi-winning, it's just a bi-polar mess. Does the movie glorify Hells Angels? If so, it definitely succeeds, with the iconic looking characters on their bikes. Does the movie vilify Hells Angels? If so, it definitely succeeds, with some pretty appalling (though not less famous) scenes of racist violence, rape and sacrilege. There's more to it, but long story short, their characters aren't complex - they're just written all over the place. Peter Fondas character has a famous speech where he yells that he just wants the freedom to do whatever he wants to do, but by the end of the movie, it's obvious that he doesn't know what to make of it all! You can argue that it's actually a pretty clever point, and that it's deliberate that these unlikable characters can't live up to their own ideals. That may in fact be so - but I still can't shake the feeling that we were supposed to sympathize with them, but that it just doesn't work.

The opening title shots of Peter Fonda riding along the California coast to the sound of some very cool music gives the false hope that this is a classic film. If you could stick Dennis Hopper along side it could almost be the opening to Easy Rider. However it quickly goes down hill.By the closing shots in the graveyard the only thing keeping me going was the hope that the locals would beat the crap out of Peter Fonda and his hideous friends. They had just attended the funeral of one of their friends at which they smashed up the church, raped his girlfriend, pulled the dead guy out his coffin, stuck a cigarette in his mouth and pushed the preacher into the coffin instead.I've rarely seen a film that made me feel such contempt for the main protagonists. I think the closing shot of Fonda standing alone in the graveyard was meant to be deep and meaningful. It wasn't.The only reason I would recommend this film is for the same reason I watched it. To see the film that Primal Scream sampled for their classic hit Loaded. Having seen it I can't for the life of me imagine why they did.