Dir: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Release: 23 August 2013
Cert: 15
Sometimes, you’ll go see a film and have the lowest of expectations. There’s going to be one or two outcomes – it’s everything you thought it would be, and you shuffle out of the cinema moaning about having just wasted £8, or you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
We’re the Millers is one of those films – and, I’ll admit it, it surprised me.
It’s the story of drug dealer David Clark (Jason Sudeikis), who finds himself in a spot of bother after a group of teenagers rob his apartment, taking his stash and his cash. To repay his debt, he’s forced to cross the border to Mexico and pick up a drug order for his boss. So how’s a guy to get in and out of Mexico without getting stopped by customs?
David hatches a plan – he’ll need a fake family to go with him. Who’s going to suspect an all-American family of drug trafficking? He enlists the help of geeky neighbour kid Kenny (Will Poulter), a homeless girl called Casey (Emma Roberts) and his stripper neighbour Rose (Jennifer Aniston) to carry out his disastrous plot.
Slapstick humour, gross jokes and predictable plotlines keep this crude road-trip movie going. From the director of Dodgeball and the writers behind Wedding Crashers, you know from the get-go what to expect. The jokes are juvenile, but that’s not to say it isn’t funny. It is predictable, and the plot is insane, but you actually find yourself rooting for this band of dysfunctional misfits as they race to make their deadline with an RV packed with two tonnes of pot.
And Oscar winner, it isn’t. But it’s fun – doesn’t require much thinking and there are some laughs in there. For a movie of this kind, it’s actually pretty good. Stick it out until the blooper reel at the end too – Friends favourite Jennifer Aniston has a brilliant moment…
[rating=4]
Image: (C) 2013 WARNER BROS
