{"id":5341,"date":"2013-08-10T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2013-08-10T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T14:30:55","slug":"were-the-millers-is-passable-but-far-from-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"‘RE THE MILLERS is Passable but far from Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLet\u2019s get all the film critic-y crap out of the way, shall we?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the Millers\u201d has terrible character development and sticks to a textbook template for the Standard R-Rated Comedy. The plot is outlandish to a fault. It is very predictable. The laughs rely too heavily on Jennifer Aniston saying words like \u201cdick\u201d and \u201cballs\u201d and \u201cblack cock down\u201d (which is an actual title to porno of course). At one hour and fifty minutes, the movie could use a trim as it rambles on to its inevitable ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that we got through the warts and the problems I have to say that \u201cWe\u2019re the Millers\u201d did succeed where it matters: This movie made me laugh. Plenty of times. And while it is a flawed and fleeting sort of entertainment, \u201cWe\u2019re the Millers\u201d delivers enough of the funny stuff to make it worth a look.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story is of the High Concept variety which shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise since the script comes from the writers- and there are four of them (!)- who brought you other far-reaching comedies as \u201cWedding Crashers,\u201d Mr. Popper\u2019s Penguins\u201d and (the Highest of the High Concept Comedies) \u201cHot Tub Time Machine\u201d.<\/strong>
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\n Here we have David Clark (Jason Sudeikis), a middle aged man going nowhere, sharing his life with no one. A loner, Dottie. A rebel\u2026 David makes his living slinging grams of Marijuana, an occupation he\u2019s endured since college. After all of his supply and money is stolen from him, he is in terrible danger with his supplier, Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms who plays Mr. Gurdlinger as a one-note madman you might find on an Adult Swim show). To repay his debt, David is forced to go to Mexico and smuggle back a huge shipment of weed. It\u2019s a fool\u2019s endeavor but David comes up with the idea of having a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), an abandoned teenage kid that lives in his apartment building (Will Poulter) and a homeless girl (Emma Roberts) pose as his family vacationing south of the border. Chaos ensues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A comedy\u2019s success from one person\u2019s perspective to another\u2019s is a very subjective issue. More so than any other genre. Do you like Adam Sandler movies? Will Ferrell crack you up? You prefer fart jokes or do you enjoy your humor from the highbrow section of the spectrum? This makes it very difficult for me to make a suggestion either way as I am a victim to my own tastes and an objective view is not possible (cue the violins as I clear my throat for heartfelt rendition of my new song \u201cFirst World Problems\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fa\"A1\"<\/a>ns of Sudeikis will not be disappointed as the actor proves that he can headline a movie. There is not much stretching going on as his David Miller is much like every other character he\u2019s played to date. I\u2019m beginning to think that the word \u201cchameleon\u201d will never be used to describe a Jason Sudeikis performance. But I\u2019m ok with that. If we extend the same to Kevin James, I\u2019m all for letting Jason be Jason. Aniston is forced to perform an inexplicable striptease about midway through the movie that makes it apparent that with this role and her sexpot work in \u201cHorrible Bosses\u201d she has decided she is most successful as foul-mouthed characters that use her sex as a weapon. I guess it\u2019s a niche market that she has cornered and she seems very comfortable shaking her nether regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The breakout star-and the premier reason to see \u201cWe\u2019re the Millers\u201d- is Will Poulter and his lovable Kenny Rossmore. You cannot help but pull for the wide-eyed kid as he stumbles through life. He provides the most genuine laughter with some help from his testicles. You\u2019ll have to see the movie for explanation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a missed opportunity here as the film never establishes any real emotional connection. Putting these lost people together and giving them a sense of belonging and family is never really developed. If the filmmakers had capitalized on this theme we could have had a great movie instead of a passable one that will be gone from the memory by the time it comes out on DVD.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s get all the film critic-y crap out of the way, shall we? \u201cWe\u2019re the Millers\u201d has terrible character development and sticks to a textbook template for the Standard R-Rated Comedy. The plot is outlandish to a fault. It is very predictable. The laughs rely too heavily on Jennifer Aniston saying words like \u201cdick\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6681,10441,10562,24053,24292],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-ed-helms","tag-jason-sudeikis","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-were-the-millers","tag-will-poulter"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}