We Are The Millers - review

‘We Are The Millers’ - this has to be the most predictable story of the year. A drug dealer, who needs to smuggle his stuff across the border, realizes it will work better if he has a family with him & puts together a pretend family, consisting of a stripper, a dorky teenager and a homeless rebel. Yawn … no prizes here, for guessing what happens next! Yep, post many misunderstandings, fights, awkwardness … they all fall in love with each other and actually live happily, well if not ever after, at least till we leave the theater!

But picture abhi baaki hai, mere dost! Strangely, despite all this, the movie works, as a pleasant, slightly raunchy, definitely not brain-stimulating, but still fun & feel-good comedy, only because the star cast, led by SNL veteran, Jason Sudeikis & our favorite Friend, Jennifer Aniston, rise above the mediocre script!

Va-va-voom Jenny heats up the screen & sizzles as a stripper, who desperately needs the money, which Jason tempts her with, to take up his bizarre proposition. She may be separated from Brad Pitt, but she certainly has mastered the ‘Benjamin Button’ trick, because this babe is looking younger & more dangerous, every time you see her! Yet, she switches to playing ‘mommy of the year’ with ease, if you are not too shocked watching her & her fake daughter, played neatly by Emma Roberts, give her false son, some steamy kissing lessons!!!

Jason Sudeikis has perfect timing, manages to make you smile, laugh and believe in happy endings – glad that his film career has had a decent take-off, justifying his exit from Saturday Night Live!
The two young guns, Poulter, as the nerdy son & the fierce Emma Roberts, as the daughter, manage to hold their own against Aniston & Jason Sudeikis.

No Oscar winner, this one, nor will you remember it, a while after you have left the cinema hall, but still, immensely watchable, worth it, just for Jennifer’s strip act, to prove to the baddies, that she is a stripper & not Mrs. Miller, great Time-Pass & won’t be a bad idea to sit through the credits which roll at the end of the movie, against the backdrop of bloopers, just to watch Jennifer Aniston grin uncontrollably, as the Miller Family suddenly belt out the “Friends” theme song – ‘I’ll be there for you’ – you may find yourself humming along with them!