August 30, 2013.
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Jason Sudeikis.
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Jason Sudeikis.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber.
There is a reason you get
so many Romcoms and comedies involving families from Hollywood. They all cost
less in production and rake in truckloads of money. If you provide a few laughs
and feel good moments you can rest assured the film is gonna be a hit.
The latest from Warner
Brothers, We’re the millers is one such movie. David (Sudeikis) who is a small
time drug dealer is forced to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States
after he gets robbed. He happens to see a policeman being very nice to a
tourist family and right away decides it will be easier for him to smuggle the
drugs into the United States if he has a family accompanying him. So he convinces
Rose (Aniston) who is a stripper by profession to be his wife, Kenny(Poulter)
who is his neighbour to be his son and the runaway Casey(Emma Roberts) to be
his daughter.
There are some really funny
scenes and some which are not so funny but what makes all the scenes appear a
notch above what they actually should be is the exceptional performance by the
Miller family especially Will Poulter and Jason Sudeikis. Aniston and Roberts
play their part pretty well to make up the Miller family one of the weirdest
yet adorable that you would come across.
It is very clear that
Poulter has grown out of his Narnia days and has become an actor to be reckoned
with. He plays the naive (read dumb) Kenny amazingly well that you would be in
complete awe seeing him perform. The spider scene is one that needs special
mention; but even in other scenes he gives such a stunning performance with
those little nuances of his. Sudeikis is equally good with his performance and
it would not be too much to tell that We’re the millers mainly belongs to these
two.
Story wise there is nothing
new as far as the film is concerned and there are few areas where the writing
lets you down like the Millers being chased by Pablo Chacon for example. You
get to see a lotta such familiar set ups throughout.
But then it cannot be held
against the film owing to the performances that we get to watch. The ending of
the film is quite predictable yet enjoyable considering the liking you would
have taken to the Miller family.
I
am giving a 3 for We’re the Millers. Go in not expecting
too much and you will enjoy the film.
Rating Scale (Out
of 5)
Less than 2
-
Unwatchable.
2 to 2.25
-
Below average.
2.5 to 2.75
-
Average.
3 to
3.25
-
Good.
3.5 to
3.75 -
Really Good.
4 to 4.25
-
Great.
4.5 and
above
- Extraordinary.
