From Austin Chronicle...
I do not own this picture/poster. We're the Millers and/or Imp Awards owns it all.
The R-rated comedy gets a little harder with
We’re the Millers,
pun intended. Among other things, it features an 18-year-old’s swollen,
grapefruit-sized testicle on prominent display not once, not twice, but
three times. (A pesky tarantula bite causes the gonad’s temporary
elephantiasis.) Not since another 18-year-old boinked an apple pie has a
movie played teenage male anatomy for such raunchy laughs. It’s only a
matter of time until someone crosses the Rubicon with a pants-down,
full-on (well, maybe only half-mast) boner that takes good-natured
vulgarity to the next graphic level. The question is: Will anyone be
shocked? At this rate, it’s unlikely. But if
We’re the Millers is any indication, rest assured it will be outrageously funny in the right hands, so to speak.
With its tongue firmly in cheek – as well as in someone’s mouth most of the time –
We’re the Millers
celebrates family values in a most nontraditional way. It exaggerates
the contempt that familiarity can breed between spouses and siblings –
the middle finger is the typical means of communication for the members
of the faux Miller clan – while depicting the affection and loyalty that
develops from the same intimacy. In its own twisted way, it’s a comedic
take on the love/hate dynamic that Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee
mined so powerfully in their best work. If you’ve seen the movie’s
trailer, you know the storyline. A small-time Denver drug dealer
(Sudeikis), who’s deeply in debt to his source, recruits a stripper
(Aniston), a geek (Poulter), and a runaway (Roberts) to pose as his wife
and kids as part of a plan to smuggle a huge shipment of marijuana from
Mexico to the States. His thinking? No one will suspect the
gee-willikers foursome of any criminal activity as they cross the
international border in a mammoth recreational vehicle packed with
enough pot to impress even Willie Nelson. While its plot points are
pedestrian at best, the genius – at least, the definite charm – of
We’re the Millers is its notion of family as something beyond a simple blood connection,
particularly when exigent circumstances create the ties that.
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