Friday 13 September 2013

Miller Lite


It’s fitting that We’re The Millers begins with some YouTube clips because the whole film feels lazy and plays out exactly like a teenager showing you all the stuff they think is really cool. In this case ‘really cool’ translates as pot dealers, strippers, sex jokes, spiders and giant testicles. We learn that crime pays if you’re a  deadpan snarker and ‘basically a good guy’ and that Jennifer Aniston can resuscitate her career by taking her clothes off, having her breasts felt and snogging a teen. All the best jokes were in the trailer and the gag reel. In between the clips at the beginning and the outtakes at the end it’s join the dots plotting in which the dysfunctional ‘family’ learns to be a proper family. It makes a show of being subversive but delivers so-so laughs in a very conservative bundle. It will be a massive hit and spawn many sequels but it’s reduced in content and lacks flavour. It’s piss poor lager. It’s Miller Lite

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