We're
The Millers
Even Jennifer Aniston has to admit that her career is taking a huge
tumble when she has to engage in a major, several minutes long strip
tease. She’s sliding down that pole from A-List to C-List faster
than Lindsay Lohan, and Lohan had a whole lotta more fun doing it.
Jason Sudeikis stars as Dave – a minor league pot dealer in
Denver, who is in trouble. He got robbed before he can pay off the
local crime lord, Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms), so he’s in the hole
about $43,000. Without any hope of collecting that money again, Dave
agrees to head to Mexico and bring back Brad’s latest shipment of
the Mary Jane, but it won’t be easy sneaking across the border.
Dave comes up with a plan that seems too good to be true. He figured
families are always left alone and treated better by everyone, so Dave
hires a “family” to fool the border agents. Who is joining
him on this trip?
His “wife”, played by the stripper who lives in
Dave’s building and hates him, Rose (Jennifer Aniston).
His “daughter”, played by a local homeless runaway, Casey
(Emma Roberts).
And, last but not least, his “son” played by the nerdy kid
who lives in the building as well, Kenny (Will Poulter).
Is this foolhardy plan foolproof?
When We’re The Millers is being as
naughty, nasty and inappropriate as it can be, this is a funny movie.
Then, the 4-person writing team goes and ruins it by trying to give the
movie heart that is false and contrived.
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and the cast get it. When they get a
chance to let loose with the expletives, the outrageous statements, the
meanness and the craziness, We’re The Millers is
hilarious. With the exception of Kenny, these people are a bit
deplorable and opportunistic, no matter how much the writers want to
inject more humanity and endearing sadness in their lives and
character.
Frankly, it’s funnier if I don’t feel bad for them, because
tugging at our heart strings is the same old manipulative junk you have
seen a million times before. Instead of being lovable losers who got
dealt a bad hand in the game of life, just let them be losers with
crassness and brutal honesty when expressing their desires and
opinions. Those are the moments that will make you laugh in We’re
The Millers.
Believe it or not, Jennifer Aniston just made a movie that isn’t
appalling.
We’re The Millers is rated R for crude
sexual content, pervasive language, drug material and brief graphic
nudity
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