We're The Millers
Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber
Review Ray Chan
When his stash and cash are plundered, the pusher he works for, Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms), says all debts will be forgiven if he agrees to smuggle a shipment over the Mexican border.
To enable him to get past the border patrol, David persuades his stripper neighbour Rose (Jennifer Aniston), homeless girl Casey (Emma Roberts), and the 18-year-old dork and fellow apartment dweller Kenny (Will Poulter) to pose as his all-American family, the Millers, planning to hide the weed in an RV and sail right across.
Of course, things don’t go quite to the script, with the crew ending up being chased by a Mexican drug kingpin, having a series of bizarre encounters with another RV-driving couple (Kathryn Hahn and Nick Offerman), and struggling to keep their masquerade intact.
The jokes themselves are often sexual or scatological, with gags about wife-swapping, sexual malfunctions, and tampons making prominent appearances, not to mention an unfortunate incident with a spider bite on a set of testicles.
But while We're the Millers is very raunchy in its humour, at the very heart of it lies a sweet intent, being fundamentally a tale about a bunch of wacky misfits who secretly yearn for the kind of normality some people would take for granted.
As their journey moves forward, the Millers find themselves assuming the characteristics of a real family. David and Rose develop a sense of parental protectiveness toward their “children”.
While all of the cast play off each other well, Poulter is a standout and hilarious as the insecure Kenny, whether he's rapping to TLC's Waterfalls or awkwardly learning how to kiss from an inappropriate source.
As the movie winds up, life lessons are learned by all. In some ways, this is the movie's best joke: that even complete screw-ups can find a sense of belonging when thrown together with other fellow oddballs.
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