We're The Millers Reviews

Sudeikis has always been a charming comedic actor. He usually doesn't have to work this hard for laughs; he's just naturally funny. The giggles that eventually materialize here are entirely a result of his dogged efforts.

Full Review | Original Score: D

We're The Millers certainly doesn't push any boundaries or break new ground, but it's just funny enough to garner a tepid "meh."

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

A bland and expected comedy wearing the skin of something dark and naughty.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

This film's eagerness to please functions as a slow poison, draining The Millers of its vitality by rendering its characterization uneven, its potential undeveloped, and its plot predictable and stupid.

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It never shifts into third gear as a great comedy but there are worse places to be stuck than in second with this family.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

This has a script that initially manages a surprise or two and nearly makes you like the characters until the ideas (or the dope) run out, and everyone's forced to ham it up, swear their heads off and drop their pants for serious scrotum jokes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Like a long road trip with the family, this one speeds along without any bumps.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.9/10

The filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions, falling back on moments of egregiously false sentimentality whenever the material threatens to turn dark.

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After an irreverent first act that seems determined to give the finger to family-bonding clichés, the movie then proceeds to embrace every single one of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

More proof that Jason Sudeikis is doomed to be a second banana and never a leading man.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Some of the jokes are funny. If one was to compile all the good snippets and scenes into a highlight reel, it might run about six minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Everyone on screen is slumming a little in this silly comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: C

By ending with outtakes that wind up being the funniest part of the film, "We're the Millers" basically confesses that its talented cast would have been much better off untethered from the pedestrian screenplay.

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The crux of the humor depends on the Sudeikis and Aniston characters bickering in a way that spells l-o-v-e, but the screenplay spells it a-g-g-r-a-v-a-t-i-o-n instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Pretty much no one will buy Jennifer Aniston as a veteran stripper, and the film veers from funny-stupid into the merely stupid.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

For every laugh there's something that will make you want to hurl an object at the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

I'm baffled how you can throw this many relatively funny people at an idea this blatantly down-the-middle and end up with something like this.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Truth is, I laughed at "We're the Millers," more than once.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Great premise. Lousy execution.

Full Review | Original Score: 4