Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Talent: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter
Release Date: 23rd August 2013
With We’re The Millers, the family road trip movie gets a make-over when, get this, they’re not a real family! Instead they’re a ragtag group assembled by drug dealer David (Jason Sudeikis) to give him an air of anonymity as he smuggles drugs across Mexico’s border.
The problem starts with the basic duality of the plot. On one hand, the comedy is almost exclusively based on the idea that this is a group who don’t fit into the traditional American middle-class set. On the other hand, we know that the plot is going to hurtle them towards a scenario where they will aspire towards, and then be accepted into, the very culture that they antagonise. This means that even some of its funniest observations on the American bourgeoisie ring completely hollow. Still, as a throw-away comedy there are genuine laughs here and there, and even though Aniston’s world-weary stripper is about as consistent as an Irish summer, the cast is strong, including those outside the Miller R.V.
