We're The Millers: Americana Familia, Good Natured and Vulgar

We're The Millers is an odd little film starring Jennifer Anniston and Jason Sudeikis which kind posits the idea of a local pot peddler as being the most responsible and savvy member of a group of people with nothing to lose and nothing better to do, so they assemble as a fake family to cover a pot smuggling operation.   How did they get roped into this little sojourn?  Not to spoil, but here is the setup, lords and ladies...

Sudeikis plays David Clark, a smart guy who seems to have a level head on his shoulders who pursues his daily bread selling pot.   He likes his lifestyle and loves his independence, shuddering at college mates who have gone onto stifling suburbanation.   But...they seem to be living, while watching them, he starts to feel he is just existing.  So, when he interferes when street thugs are harassing Casey, a homeless teen girl and Kenny, a dorky neighbor kid who went to rescue her, he ends up getting robbed and being in hock to his supplier.  So he is offered a chance to make good and make some cash...go to Mexico, pick up a load of pot, return it to him.  Easy money, right?  David, thinking that no one pays attention to families, recruits Casey, Kenny and Sarah, a neighbor who works as a stripper, who has found herself in economic double jeopardy, due to a scummy s-o who cleaned her out and an employer who wanted her to start turning tricks.  So...his weird and vulgar "family" assembled, off they go, renting a Winebago and making a run to the border.

From there, hijinks ensue, from scary Mexican gangsters to spiders biting people in inappropriate places, to Jennifer Anniston showing she does have stripping chops.  Oh, and encountering another family where all kinds of oddness and warmness in almost equal measures ensue.

This is fun flick.  Light comedy with a fair amount of vulgarity, ie, though it is about "family", it is NOT a family film.  Not even.  Don't bring the kids.  It kind of makes fun of families, but celebrates them at the same time.  And it also has the big heart for those on the outs.

I liked it.