The trailer and some extra bits

Rating: 7/10 (13 September 2013)

I admit I mostly wanted to see the film because of the striptease bit in the trailer. And, while at her age Jennifer Aniston is pretty hot, the scene was singular and short. The rest of the film does have some merits, but also few and far between.
The plot is that of a rather benign drug dealer (ahem!) who needs to do a crazy thing in order to stay alive, basically. He recruits a stripper, a juvenile delinquent and a hapless kid as a cover family. During the eventful trip, they come together as, well, a family. Now, you can imagine this script a thousand ways, one of them at least showing real people with real problems coming together when pressed by the outside world. This could have been a phenomenal dramedy, in my mind. Instead, it went for the brainless laughs, the cheap shots, the as predictable as completely unbelievable story and the lame ha-has to situations that are nothing to laugh about, like being mugged and almost killed, being asked by your employer to have sex with customers, being a socially isolated kid or a homeless adolescent girl with no adult supervision. Am I the crazy one or is it completely insane to know what is going to happen, even while being completely certain it would never ever happen in real life? Exactly what are we buying here?
As a result, I could not empathize to any of the cartoonish characters and felt completely disconnected from any of the several amusing scenes in the film. As if being aware of this, the makers of the movie added a bit of bloopers at the end of the film, only those too felt staged and artificial.
Rarely I try watching a comedy, hoping that I would be entertained, or trust a trailer to be a significant sample of a movie. Alas, most of the times I meet only disappointment. We're the Millers is clearly one of those times.