MOVIE REVIEW: "THEY'RE THE MILLERS...AND THEY SUCK!"

Before I start being pissy about this movie, i got three questions and I don't need answers cos I bet you may ask the same after you watch the movie "We're the Millers."

1. Why... I mean why do they still make this kind of movies, They are so like... yesterday! The film looks like a cheap knock off of Robin William's comedy film 'RV', and Chevy Chase's National Lampoon's Vacation ( which was a lovely movie by the way...Chevy Chase rocks)!

2. Why do we have to watch the movie! I mean are we the audience so dumb to drop the good ones and watch this one?! Was that what the producers were thinking?!

3. Jennifer...a stripper?! Are these guys high on cheap glue or something? Don't get me wrong, I love Jennifer Aniston. Actually she was one the reasons I watched the 'Friends' sitcom season 1-10 in 1 week. But you gotta agree, she is kind of a stiffo!!! Making her a stripper was wrong. Making her to strip dance for the bad guy in one of the scenes in the movie...was wrong, that was so wrong (hard to get the disturbing image off my head...bluuuaaaahhhh)!

Oh.. there it is!!!

The movie features Jason Sudeikis who takes main character, as a small-time drug dealer named David Clark, who hires three misfits to pose as a squeaky-clean family so that he can smuggle an enormous stash of pot across the Mexican border.

Low level marijuana drug dealer David Clark is robbed of his money and stash, some of which he owes to his supplier. His boss, wealthy drug lord Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms) forces David to smuggle marijuana from Mexico in order to clear his debt. Realizing that one man attempting to get through customs is too suspicious, he hires a stripper named Rose (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway teenage girl named Casey (Emma Roberts), and his virgin 18 year-old neighbor Kenny (Will Poulter) to pose as a bogus family called the "Millers" to avoid the attentions of police and border guards.

The Millers make the drive across the border in an enormous RV in order to hide the drugs. David picks up the marijuana using the name 'Pablo Chacon', the name given to him by Gurdlinger. 

After successfully crossing the border back to the U.S.A, one of the radiator hoses breaks while going up a steep incline because of the extra load of the marijuana on the RV. A family they had encountered at the border called the Fitzgeralds, catch up to them and tow the Millers' RV to a repair shop. On the trip to the shop, David learns that Don Fitzgerald is a DEA agent after finding his badge and gun in the glove compartment. Excuse me, does that seem like a coincidence or just a lazy way of creating a comic thrill by the film makers?!

The rest of the movie shows David and his potse in a race against time to deliver the huge stash of marijuana while trying so hard to maintain their disguise as a real family, escaping the clutches of death launched by the real 'Pablo Chacon' who is a powerful Mexican drug lord, and 'henchman One eye', because David unintentionally used the drug kingpin's name to collect the drugs in the first place.

A major disappointment with this movie is how the screenplay rely far too much on sexual crudeness. for example, Mrs Fitzegerald grabbing Aniston's boobs, the horrible strip tease, the yelling of 'a black dick' by Aniston while playing what was supposed to be a family game, the scene where disguised mother, daughter are giving kissing lessons to son, and David watches, ...should I go on?! In short, this film fails to convince the audience that the characters who express themselves with such unnecessary explicitness, would ever do so in real life, least of all in front of strangers. And Aniston given too much center of attention is way too obvious even though she is not given the major role, "like dah...we know she took one of the major roles in Friends and she was formerly married to Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt!"

Although the film is not a memorable comedy by any means, and fails to live up to the expectation of the director, Rawson Marshall Thurber’s who is known for his first movie 'Dodgeball' which was unexpectedly hilarious, it's worth seeing for pure mindless fun if you want a fun comedy that is a bit underrated! 

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 47% based on reviews from 135 critics, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The site's consensus states "Blandly offensive (or perhaps merely offensively bland), We're the Millers squanders its potential—and its cast—with an uneven, lazily assembled comedy." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1 to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a 43 based on 33 critics indicating "mixed or average reviews".
According audience polls conducted by CinemaScore, viewers gave the film an average grade of A-.

We're the Millers is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. It stars Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, and Will Poulter. It was released in the U.S. on August 7, 2013 by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.