I’m pretty sure that most family holidays (or vacations if you’re reading this State side….oh the humour) don’t involve ear fucking, shallow vaginas and strip shows to drug dealers. While all this might sound ideal (especially the ear fucking) to some of you, to the Millers its just part of the act. What act I hear you cry? Well read on and find out (or just scroll to the end to see what we gave it).
A pot dealer (Jason Sudeikis) creates a fake family as part of a plan he has to concoct in an attempt to smuggle a rather large quantity of weed from Mexico to the U.S. Said fake family is made up of Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter and Emma Roberts. Along the way, rather predictably our fake family encounter a number incidents (some being down right hilarious) ranging from a ball biting tarantula, the aforementioned ear fucking and a smouldering (seriously, she’s on fire) strip tease.
With a likeable cast, actually a really likeable cast We’re The Millers sets off on its drug smuggling road journey rather well. Alas once the drugs are brought back across the border, things take a turn for the not so good. Sub plots featuring a DEA agent (Nick Offerman, who is superb) and another drug dealer only drag things out where you’ll be looking at your watch wondering about the time or something else. With a running time just shy of 120 minutes, plenty could have been shredded or at least things could have been worked out a bit better. At times We’re The Millers seems more like “Here's Some Fillers” with some scenes, just having little relevance to what's going on. That said though, these said scenes are rather hilarious, and as pointless as they are, they will make you laugh.
If theres one reason to see this movie, its for Jennifer Aniston. She steals scene after scene after scene, with punchy one liners and a sexiness that will have you digging out old Friends box sets. The strip tease she performs will definitely get numerous replays on the home release. Everything that comes out of her mouth has a real dirty, sexiness to it. Christ shes hot! As mentioned above, everybody else is really likable and Will Poulter looks like he’s having the time of his life. Ed Helms also looks like he’s having the time of his life as drug kingpin, complete with an Orca.
Like most family holidays, especially in a slow coasting RV, things can get boring. And that’s the biggest downfall of We’re The Millers. If it had a tighter script and was less predictable (everybody falls into their adopted roles of mommy, daddy, brother and sister rather too obviously) We’re The Millers could have been really something. However, it does provide the laughs and Aniston is worthy of the admission price alone. Certainly worth a punt!
