We're The Millers Reviews
Top CriticWith jokes cloned from bad taste movies and off-kids-telly villains, it doesn't even qualify for dumb fun.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Stays mean and maintains a bit of an edge even when it threatens to go all soft and gooey.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
'We're the Millers' clicks on just enough cylinders to warrant a recommendation.
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| Original Score: 3/5
a movie written by a committee, too long, but the cast carries it a long way, these mild virtues don't quite add up to a recommendation, but if you said you wanted to see it I wouldn't block the door.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions, falling back on moments of egregiously false sentimentality whenever the material threatens to turn dark.
Even tastelessness needs to have some taste. The blue humor in We're the Millers is just bland.
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| Original Score: C-
The laughs may come in fits and starts, usually by way of sight gags and set pieces, but they do come. And then they go.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
"We're the Millers" plays like a "Saturday Night Live" skit that goes on too long.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
A laugh-out-loud comic trek that avoids being either too crude or too docile. If a summer of high-impact blockbusters has left you worn out, join the Millers for a laugh.
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| Original Score: B
We're The Millers asks you to believe that somewhere in this world there's a pot dealer who prides himself on not selling to kids and a stripper who never takes her bra off.
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| Original Score: 2/4
An innocuously smutty road comedy starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
For a movie about a group of drug smugglers pretending to be an all-American clan, "We're the Millers" hogs the middle of the road like the big, farty RV at its center.
When the end-credit bloopers roll, Sudeikis and Aniston, free of the contrived plot, look like they're finally having fun.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
In the end, Sudeikis is a little too smarmy and Aniston a little too clean-cut to really sell these characters ...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
One could make a great movie out of this set-up, though sadly "We're the Millers" doesn't.
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| Original Score: 5/10
A smarter, more thoughtful comedy could have made something interesting out of this material, but "We're the Millers" takes the easy route.
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| Original Score: 2/4
While Aniston shows that she's as deft on a stripper pole as she is with her sitcom-honed timing, Sudeikis wields his smart-ass sarcasm like a barbed weapon. And more often than not, it kills.
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| Original Score: B
What really drives the movie is its own search for something to make fun of, and for a comic style that can feel credibly naughty while remaining ultimately safe and affirmative.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The Millers script -- it took four writers to cobble together something that seems so slight -- hits too many obvious notes between the moments when Aniston can strut her stuff.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Do you find insults revolving around the words Marky Mark, churros and/or #YOLO hilarious? How about the notion of a dorky white kid flawlessly rapping TLC's "Waterfalls"?
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| Original Score: 2/5
We'd have to be stoned to be interested in these characters or to be surprised when they form a surrogate family just in time for the blooper reel.
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| Original Score: 2/4
"We're the Millers" is full of moments that feel as forced as the marriage of convenience - and contrivance - in the movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Jason Sudeikis in the lead? As a drug dealer who could never hope to pass for a picket-fence type? Please, the man looks like he was born in a Lands' End catalog.
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| Original Score: 1/4
"We're the Filler" might have been a more apt title ...
We're the Millers is vulgar vanilla, a "family" comedy about a bunch of would-be golly-gee squares who talk dirty and get involved with Mexican drug dealers because it's 2013 instead of 1953.
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.
