Enjoyable fare for the whole family . . .

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2013)

. . . as WE'RE THE MILLERS is a movie with its heart in the right place. MILLERS teaches many valuable lessons. One is not to get tattoos on a whim in your youth. It might be fine for a stripper to have the words "Boner Garage" tatted on her belly above a big arrow pointing "down there," but how will it look when she's 93 and is being prepped for an incontinence procedure? Second, MILLERS shows that as long as you work hard or are blessed to have some money, you can always buy a pretty good family when you need it. Just as most jobs in America allow you to be fired "without cause," the "bought and paid for" family probably can be reconstituted or released just as easily as Big Business does it. Finally, MLLERS gives outsiders a pretty good idea of how many ways there are to die in the Southwest: spider bites, car rollovers, industrial accidents, thirst, snakes, Border crossing, rock-slides, law enforcement, sexual identity misunderstandings, trespassing, drug deals gone wrong--and, of course, my favorite: stray bullets.