Review: We're The Millers

So I went to see "We're The Millers" yesterday and figured a review was in order. It's about a middle aged drug dealer (played by Jason Sudeikis) who's forced to smuggled marijuana into the US from Mexico. He decides that the best way to go about this is to have his neighbour, who is a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway teenager girl (Emma Roberts), and a weird guy who lives in his building (Will Poulter) pose as his wife and kids, and pretend that they're simply going on holiday to Mexico.

The simplest way I reckon to describe this movie, would be to basically say it's the exact same as that movie "R.V" that Robin Williams did a few years ago (actually good movie, just saying), with just a lot more drugs, and sexual references, and the jokes are cruder.

I personally like crude humor, it's just the type of comedy I find funny, and everybody in the cinema with me seemed to find it pretty funny too. It was the first movie I've ever seen in the cinema where people laughed so much. That saying, it isn't for everyone, like seriously maybe don't bring your grandmother.

I feel the actors did a pretty good job at making the characters come to life. Emma Roberts even managed to seem convincing as an angst ridden teenage girl. Jennifer Aniston was great as Rose, but the best actor had to be Will Poulter. He was perfect as the weird guy Kenny, who has never kissed a girl. Most of the movie's funny moments came from this guy and he pulled off the character perfectly, right down to the eyebrows.

The movie was 110 minutes in total, and one of the bad points I'll give it is it did slightly drag on, and then I feel that it was wrapped up a little too fast. It got slightly soppy towards the end and I can't really cope with soppiness so that was a bit of a bad point.

Also another bad point would be that the characters aren't very well fleshed out. You never find out things like why did Rose Miller become a stripper (in the movie it's made clear she hates it) or why Casey Miller ran away from home and was living on the street. Some of these topics get brought up throughout the movie but the subject is quickly changed by the character in question who gets angry and upset about it, which makes you think there'll eventually be a big confession scene that never comes.

"We're The Millers" is good, it's not amazing or anything, but it's not supposed to be. It's not supposed to break grounds in film making, it's just supposed to be funny, and it's very funny just as long as you like the type of humor that is portrayed. I'd give it four out of five stars because it did what it was supposed to do, make me laugh, and I thought the story was pretty original, even though it was slightly unrealistic and I would have liked to know more about the characters.