We're The Millers (2013)
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Critics Consensus: We're the Millers squanders its potential with an uneven, lazily assembled story..
Critics Consensus: We're the Millers squanders its potential with an uneven, lazily assembled story..
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David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids-after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order to … More- Rating:
- R (for crude sexual content, pervasive language, drug material and brief graphic nudity)
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Directed By:
- Rawson Marshall Thurber
- Written By:
- Dan Fybel , Sean Anders , John Morris , Bob Fisher , Steve Faber
- In Theaters:
- Aug 7, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Nov 19, 2013
- US Box Office:
- $150.4M
Cast
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Jennifer Aniston
as Rose O'Reilly -
Jason Sudeikis
as David Clark -
Emma Roberts
as Casey Mathis -
Will Poulter
as Kenny Rossmore -
Ed Helms
as Brad Gurdlinger -
Kathryn Hahn
as Edie Fitzgerald
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Critic Reviews for We're The Millers
All Critics (147) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (78) | DVD (2)
The movie's lingering close-ups on yearning faces and heart-to-heart conversations force the fake Millers into real familial longing that's more bogus than the family itself.
With jokes cloned from bad taste movies and off-kids-telly villains, it doesn't even qualify for dumb fun.
Stays mean and maintains a bit of an edge even when it threatens to go all soft and gooey.
The baseline for American movie humor sinks once again in this sentimentally cynical and cynically sentimental farce.
It boils down to the idea that men and women alike yearn for what they don't have, and that making your way through life is about seizing the bizarre opportunities it thrusts at you.
Though incredibly predictable from start to finish, "We're the Millers" did make me laugh.
One of the more bearable comedies to arrive in 2013...
A great movie it isn't, but it's one hell of a funny excursion.
At one point Aniston does a strip tease to create a diversion, presumably from her own heart of gold.
Lazily agreeable, harmlessly vulgar...
More like We're the Fillers. Despite having a half-decent premise, this generic American comedy squanders every single one of its comedic opportunities.
Naturally, there are roadblocks galore -- but the breezy film stays one mile ahead in terms of plot and punch lines
...a promising comedy that ultimately succumbs to the worst and most needless conventions that Hollywood has to offer.
Then there's the idea of the primped and plastic Aniston playing a stripper, perhaps the least realistic portrayal of a sex worker since Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman."
It's worth pondering whether the target audience will be able to grasp that the moral here - that crime does pay, as long as you're funny - isn't meant to be taken seriously.
It's predictable, politically incorrect and too long - but a handful of really big chuckles excuse most of the cop-outs.
Often funny but not extravagantly or consistently so.
A movie with a solid comedic concept at its core but one that is forced to go through the necessary motions until it rolls to a stop.
A very rude road movie prone to too many second-gear kangaroo jumps ( ... ) but [Will Poulter] is sure to be dining out on the fun of his kissing education for years.
Consistently amusing but never uproariously funny, this comedy plays it relatively safely by gently subverting our expectations of Aniston and Roberts, while making rising-star Poulter the butt of most jokes.
The central conceit is well established, the comedy is often impressively sour and the four leads complement one another beautifully.
It's consistently funny, the characters are a hoot and the anticipated family "bonding" is quite touching and doesn't interrupt the flow of big laughs.
The script development is funnier and more ingenious than you might expect, and the actors have the comic timing to pull off most of it.
It's a goofy road movie with some nice gags.
This is a fine collection of cheap and sleazy jokes, well-told ...
Audience Reviews for We're The Millers
An often funny if preposterous comedy concerning a drug dealer (Jason Sudeikis) who is tasked by his boss (Ed Helms) to do an international trade and bring marijuana across the border. The dealer decides to put together a fake family to give off the appearance of an everyday family man as to not raise any suspicion. There is a lot of predictability and crassness involved but I did find myself laughing more often than not. The ending feels a little forced and fake but for the most part it is not a bad movie and pretty enjoyable. Probably not worth many re-watches or entirely memorable, but not terrible either.
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To say We're The Millers was better than I expected isn't much of compliment, seeing as I didn't expect much at all. It is better than your average comedy of this ilk, mainly due to one or two very funny scenes and also because it has a new set of actors rather than the usual actors you'd expect. Well done Will Poulter was my first thought after the film, Jennifer Aniston seems to have been unfairly cast for one obvious scene and for once I thought it was Ed Helms who stole the show, rather than spoil it. Hit and miss in equal measure.
MoreSuper Reviewer
Raunchy comedies just don't seem to do it for me. This was ok, but I just don't get the humor set around raunchiness. Maybe I am getting old.
MoreSuper Reviewer
An outrageously funny and wickedly entertaining comedy road trip. It's filled with big laughs and some bigger heart. Its simply one of the funniest movies since The Hangover. One of the years funniest and most surprising movies. The cast is truly wonderful. Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston are hilarious. Will Poulter and Emma Roberts are terrific. Kathryn Hahn and Nick Offerman give every funny performances. One hell of an enjoyable comedy.
MoreSuper Reviewer
We're The Millers Quotes
- David Clark:
- Yeah, or send one of those damn text messages you're always sending out there, "Hey, it's me Casey, I'm not dead in a ditch, L-O-L, little picture of a fucking whale, hashtag yolo."
- Kymberly:
- Did you hear the good news? Now we get to fuck the customers for money!
- David Clark:
- Go buy some new clothes. You look like Eminem from 8 Mile.
- Rose O'Reilly:
- I've got a bingo!
- Rose O'Reilly:
- Love to play bingo.
- David Clark:
- Fuck off, real life Flanders.
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