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+ Best Comedy of the Year + Best Road Movie of the Year
Four game stars pose for Rawson Marshall Thurber's We're the Millers |
When a pot dealer loses his drugs and his money, he is tasked with smuggling in dope from Mexico by his douche-bag boss to make up for it. To do so successfully, he enlists three other destitute people and heads south with them as the 'Miller family'.
We're the Millers, written by Bob Fisher, Steve Faber (Wedding Crashers (2005), both), John Morris and Sean Anders (Dumb and Dumber To (2014), both), is the second film by great San Franciscan director Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball (2004)). It is a surprisingly hilarious, well-paced road movie comedy.
We're the Millers is a real performers' movie: Lluis Guzmán (Rise of the Damned (2011)) has a funny cameo; Ed Helms (The Hangover Part III (2013)) is funny as super-douche bag Brad Gurdlinger; Kathryn Hahn (Wanderlust (2012)) and Nick Offerman (A Walk in the Woods (2015)) in particular are a riot as a camping enthusiast couple who the 'Millers' meet.
Will Poulter (The Revenant (2015)) enjoys a minor breakthrough being very funny as innocent 'son' Kenny. Jason Sudeikis (Drinking Buddies (2013)) has the part that would have gone to Chevy Chase if the film had been made in the 1980s, I assume, and he does okay, - although he is no Chase. Jennifer Aniston (The Switch (2010)), lastly, is in her ace as a comedienne (and still wildly enticing woman) here, and it is only adding to the all-around amusement that it's clear that everyone is having a ball doing the film.
We're the Millers breaks a few taboos in a funny way, and although it probably has a plot point too many, it is mostly unimportant, since the film hits its tone so well and is as funny as it is.
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