The Millers are like the anti-Griswolds...and, for them, it works.

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2013)

First off, I will confess that I've never heard of Jason Sudeikis before. I recognized Emma Roberts from HOTEL FOR DOGS, Will Poulter from CON: VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, and even Jennifer Aniston from that NBC sit-com she used to do ("Pals" was it?).
But, that being said, I reluctantly have to confess that I absolutely _loved_ this movie!
Sudeikis was totally believable as a small-time pot dealer who's well-earned cynicism is balanced by a frequently obvious yearning for a real-life family a la "The Brady Bunch." While Aniston and Roberts are equally believable as a stripper who knows she can't give lap dances forever, and a street-smart tomboy who's fifteen-going-on-fifty, respectively.
Poulter, however, steals half the show as an adolescent virgin abandoned by his alcoholic mother. And, yet, he's still as chipper as Peter and Bobby Brady, put together, in the optimistic way that he looks at the world.
The way that these four come together as a real family, while on the run from both the Mexican Mafia _and_ the somewhat kinky Fitzgerald family, is what provided most of the belly laughs for me. And, if those of you reading this can suspend your disbelief for the film's full running time, it will do the same for you. Especially, because of the gag reel, at the end!
The only reason I didn't score this a perfect ten, however? The spider bite scene. The full frontal male nudity should have made this NC-17. I would still have gone to see it! But, at least I wouldn't have been taken unpleasantly by surprise during that one particular scene.