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A pot dealer (Jason Sudekis), a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a nerdy kid (Will Poulter) and a teenage runaway (Emma Roberts) team up to pretend to be an all-American family in order to transport a huge quantity of weed north across the U.S.-Mexican border. (This plot device put me in mind of the 1978 weed-transport classic Up in Smoke, and the realization that after a couple decades of anti-drug hysteria, we’re back to rooting for the success of drug-smugglers.) Rawson Marshall Thurber’s comedy doesn’t break much new ground, providing all the “hits” of an R-rated comedy: awkward sexual encounters, prosthetic genitals, profanity in place of wit, and a tacked-on, family-positive ending marginally designed to mitigate the preceding vulgarity. (There’s also a strip-tease from Aniston, which is either a new low or high for the actress, depending whether your appreciation skews toward her acting or her abs.) Best reason to see it: Parks and Rec vets Nick Offerman and Kathryn Hahn, as a clean-cut couple who bring the funny without the f-bombs.
This article appears in Aug 14-20, 2013.
Just saw “We’re the Millers.” Easily the funniest comedy since “Superbad.” The main thing of note is, despite what every review that I’ve read has said, it’s not all that “extreme” or “vulgar.” I went with a friend rather than Mom because of how “over-the-top” it was supposed to be. If you read the ratings factor under the “R” it goes on for 4 or 5 lines. That gives a TOTAL misconception. I think that what got censors so up-in-arms was that it was MALE nudity, so let’s scare off as many prospective moviegoers as possible. It’s just a funny scene that, if taken out, would kill one of the best jokes of the movie. Easily 5/5.