We're the Millers
Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 7, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
21
Negative:
10
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75
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaAug 7, 2013
Needless to say, the shapely Aniston pulls it off without a hitch — even if she never actually appears without a stitch. If this gutsy performance leads to better opportunities—a remake of Demi Moore's ill-conceived "Striptease," perhaps — I might sleep better at night. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 6, 2013
We’re the Millers is just good enough to keep you entertained, but not good enough to keep your mind from wandering from time to time. This is an aggressively funny comedy that takes a lot of chances, and connects just often enough. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 6, 2013
While Aniston shows that she's as deft on a stripper pole as she is with her sitcom-honed timing, Sudeikis wields his smart-ass sarcasm like a barbed weapon. And more often than not, it kills. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 9, 2013
We’re the Millers has just the right stupid, humane vulgarity for the dog days of August. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAug 7, 2013
With the exception of Roberts, who blends into the background in every scene in which she appears, the cast comprising the Millers keeps this sweetly crude comedy afloat. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAug 7, 2013
The fun of watching We're the Millers is guessing how raunchily low it will go, and realizing you've sorely underestimated these writers and actors. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 7, 2013
An innocuously smutty road comedy. Read full review
60
Total FilmPaul BradshawAug 28, 2013
It’s predictable, politically incorrect and too long – but a handful of really big chuckles excuse most of the cop-outs. There’s a much edgier film in here somewhere, but this one will definitely do. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 24, 2013
Hang on for the outtake bloopers over the credits and you'll see Aniston momentarily unsure how to take a joke at her expense. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 22, 2013
The key to the film’s success, and the reason it often left me hooting with laughter, is Aniston, and her character’s struggle in vain to maintain her sweetheart persona. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly RichardsAug 19, 2013
A likeable comedy that uses its greatest asset, its talented, funny cast, to good effect. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChris CabinAug 7, 2013
Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little more than a rowdy endorsement of the status quo. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 7, 2013
It’s an August dog-day special, in other words: a few easy laughs, one or two flashes of inspiration, and enough sentimentality to ensure that no one actually gets hurt. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergAug 7, 2013
Loud and annoying? Occasionally. Funny? Sometimes. Likely to be noticed by filmgoers six months from now? Not really. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 6, 2013
What really drives the movie is its own search for something to make fun of, and for a comic style that can feel credibly naughty while remaining ultimately safe and affirmative. Read full review
50
Film.comLaremy LegelAug 6, 2013
It’s half of a good movie, and another half that no one asked for or wanted. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 6, 2013
We’re the Millers plays like a “Saturday Night Live” skit that goes on too long. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 6, 2013
We're the Millers is nothing but stems and seeds, with less buzz than a bag of oregano. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 6, 2013
Get past the comedy and there's something almost weird at the movie's core - a deep cynicism about family and a longing for family, both at the same time. Read full review
50
The DissolveGenevieve KoskiAug 6, 2013
While the setups are often laughably forced—two words: “weed baby”—the script navigates its way out of them relatively gracefully, and sometimes hilariously. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 7, 2013
The blue humor in We’re the Millers is just bland. And yes, Aniston performs a (modified) striptease. That’s pretty bland, too. Read full review
42
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthAug 6, 2013
We're The Millers isn't really a bad movie, so much as its inoffensively and instantly forgettable. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeAug 21, 2013
It doesn’t even qualify for dumb fun. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 7, 2013
The result is a loose conglomeration of jokes that never really holds together: Funny in parts, but overwhelmed by the bland emptiness where its protagonist should be. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 6, 2013
The rest of us will just be left to puzzle over Aniston’s exhibitionism obsession and pray that Sudeikis’s smirking-douche leading-man shtick won’t constitute his entire post-SNL career. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 6, 2013
The “Millers” script — it took four writers to cobble together something that seems so slight — hits too many obvious notes between the moments when Aniston can strut her stuff. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAug 6, 2013
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber adequately manages the mechanics demanded here but adds no finesse or grace notes. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyAug 6, 2013
We're the Millers is full of moments that feel as forced as the marriage of convenience — and contrivance — in the movie. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 7, 2013
A "Jennifer Aniston movie" has become synonymous with "derivative, lackluster mediocrity," and it's a shame. We know she has both talent and charisma but nothing on her recent resume has allowed her to display those qualities. So we're stuck with films that are at best forgettable and at worst painful. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 6, 2013
We're the Millers is a twisted road trip worth avoiding. Not only is it not funny, it's offensive. Read full review
38
ObserverDrew GrantAug 6, 2013
If there is a breakout role in Millers, it is that of Will Poulter, the 20-year-old English actor who played Lee Carter in 2007’s "Son of Rambow." As Kenny Rossmore, the hapless neighbor who ends up playing the teenage son of Ms. Aniston and Mr. Sudeikis during their version of National Lampoon’s Mexican Vacation, Mr. Poulter strikes a perfect comedic balance between sweet savant and pop-culture lech. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 6, 2013
When Jason Sudeikis and Ed Helms appear in the same movie there's a significant threat of clean-cut sameness. Mediocre material makes them like two halves of the same comic actor: Ed Jason Helms-Sudeikis. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 6, 2013
It aims for that “Hangover” blend of the sick and the sentimental. And it doesn’t work. Read full review
37
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 6, 2013
It would be dishonest to claim it isn’t funny. The laughs may come in fits and starts, usually by way of sight gags and set pieces, but they do come. And then they go. Read full review
30
Village VoiceInkoo KangAug 6, 2013
This film's eagerness to please functions as a slow poison, draining The Millers of its vitality by rendering its characterization uneven, its potential undeveloped, and its plot predictable and stupid. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianJamie S. RichAug 7, 2013
Sudeikis has always been a charming comedic actor. He usually doesn't have to work this hard for laughs. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithAug 6, 2013
The movie, directed by the formerly promising Rawson Marshall Thurber (the hilarious “Dodgeball” and the awful “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”), thinks it’s subverting the conventions of the sitcom with a revolutionary new idea, which is: Do everything exactly the way a sitcom would, plus lots of swearing and dirty jokes. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangAug 6, 2013
Even a premise this stupidly contrived stands a fair chance of working if there are a few decent yuks to be had, but absent any such inspiration, We’re the Millers falls back on the sort of lazy but desperate, sexually fixated non sequiturs that have become de rigueur in studio comedies, jabbing repeatedly at the human groin in hopes of eventually hitting something funny. Read full review
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