My review: We're the Millers
"We're the Millers" has a very interesting premise that has full potential for rib-tickling situations that goes unexploited by the makers of this movie. In the end what we get to watch is an offensive, loud, formulaic, over-the-top movie, but where are the laughs..?! Touted to be a comedy "We're the Millers" is anything but it. Not even a single moment the movie makes you laugh. Only point where one gets to smile is right in the last frame of the movie which is one of the candid shots of the filming when The Rembrandts' "I'll be there for you" (from "Freinds") blare out from the music system of the RV and Jennifer Aniston's reactions to it when she is caught unawares.
The idea of four unfamiliar people from diverse background coming together to pose as a family in order to smuggle marijuana across the Mexican border so that they can escape suspicion of the authorities is fodder for loads of comedy and fun. But lazy writing and lousy execution leaves the movie high and dry as the result the viewers exasperated. Bob Fisher and his co-writers could have used a bit of imagination to instill levity and humour into their screenplay. Not being offensive or unabashedly stereotypical would bring in the laughs, the writer should realize.
Jason Sudeikis has done his part well, trying his might to keep it lively and going but in "Horrible Bosses" he was more successful because he was backed by a good script. Jennifer Aniston tries her level best to rekindle her "hawtness" but she looks jaded and fails to create the same kind of awe once she was known for during her television days. Emma Roberts is energetic while Will Poulter tries hard. Ed Helms somehow is totally a different actor when he is in the "Hangover" series but when it comes to his other roles he fails to recreate the same aura. Here too Ed is wasted in a poorly etched out role and he makes it worse by his banal performance.
On the technical side movie is good. Rawson Marshall Thurber could have spruced up the presentation so that the pace could have been a bit faster which might have camouflaged some of the trivialities and triteness.
"We're the Millers" is "Adult", yes, but "Comedy", a BIG NO.
Bottomline: No laughs.
2/5
The idea of four unfamiliar people from diverse background coming together to pose as a family in order to smuggle marijuana across the Mexican border so that they can escape suspicion of the authorities is fodder for loads of comedy and fun. But lazy writing and lousy execution leaves the movie high and dry as the result the viewers exasperated. Bob Fisher and his co-writers could have used a bit of imagination to instill levity and humour into their screenplay. Not being offensive or unabashedly stereotypical would bring in the laughs, the writer should realize.
Jason Sudeikis has done his part well, trying his might to keep it lively and going but in "Horrible Bosses" he was more successful because he was backed by a good script. Jennifer Aniston tries her level best to rekindle her "hawtness" but she looks jaded and fails to create the same kind of awe once she was known for during her television days. Emma Roberts is energetic while Will Poulter tries hard. Ed Helms somehow is totally a different actor when he is in the "Hangover" series but when it comes to his other roles he fails to recreate the same aura. Here too Ed is wasted in a poorly etched out role and he makes it worse by his banal performance.
On the technical side movie is good. Rawson Marshall Thurber could have spruced up the presentation so that the pace could have been a bit faster which might have camouflaged some of the trivialities and triteness.
"We're the Millers" is "Adult", yes, but "Comedy", a BIG NO.
Bottomline: No laughs.
2/5
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