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'We're The Millers' Is Something The Whole Family Can Avoid


Man, those zany road comedies are just all the rage nowadays aren't they? In movies like this, the story really isn't the point; it's more about the characters (or, more often, caricatures) that the straight lead encounters on the way. No doubt a few of them will become classics, and be remembered as symbols of the times they were made in.

“We're The Millers” will not be among these few. Even its leads could barely be called characters. It seems to prefer to go through the motions and be sentimental in all the wrong places.

The exercise in mediocrity starts in Denver with small-time pot dealer David Clark (Jason Sudeikis) who seems to have barely moved forward since college. He doesn't seem to mind the rut his life is obviously in, or have any ambitions to become anything else, until he gets robbed of all his cash and supplies.

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To compensate for the loss, David's boss Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms) forces him to become an international smuggler and transport a huge amount of weed from Mexico back into the U.S. David is at a loss at how to get past the authorities until he realizes that a family would look a lot less suspicious. So he decides to hire a stripper named Rose (Jennifer Aniston, trying her best to be sleazy), and two local teenagers, the runaway Casey (Emma Roberts), and his virgin neighbor Kenny (Will Poulter).

And so the zaniness commences. They all bicker, eventually bond, they naturally run afoul of a Mexican drug lord, and keep another kooky family that they meet on the way ignorant of their situation, particularly because the father, played by Nick Offerman, just happens to be a DEA agent.

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But mostly it feels like “We're The Millers” is playing the same dull song we've all heard before. The inevitable sentimental moments feel out of place, the characters aren't explored enough to make them feel more real (heck, you don't even know why the runaway ran away), and the times when they do bond isn't enough to offset the undercurrent of meanness throughout.

The funniest part of the movie actually comes after the credits, where the cast plays a hilarious joke on Jennifer Aniston. The rest will still make you laugh a bit, keep you entertained for a little while, and will be forgotten almost immediately.

Grade: C+



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