We're the Millers
2013 · Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Original language: English
- comedy
- crime
The story
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
What it’s like
Bright, sun-bleached suburban daylight and wide, flat Colorado and Mexican desert vistas give way to brightly lit motel rooms, RV interiors and a carnival midway strung with tacky fluorescent bulbs. The camera is mostly conventional and steady, with plenty of medium two-shots and punchline-friendly reaction cuts, and the palette leans warm and saturated, with sunburn-pink skin, cheap neon and sandy beige. The score is upbeat pop and classic-rock needle drops that keep the momentum bouncing from one crisis to the next. The vibe is raucous, sweaty and goofy, a road-trip caper that rewards a lazy weekend afternoon or a group watch with friends. Pacing is brisk, with broad slapstick, crude sexual humour, profanity and a handful of bloody but cartoonish scuffles and drug-related peril, so the intensity is moderate and never truly frightening. Its misfit characters, a stiff, reluctant pseudo-family, gradually soften toward one another as the bickering turns to loyalty. It suits viewers who want a crass, warm-hearted comedy with a bit of crime-movie chaos rather than anything gentle or quiet.
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