We're the Millers 2013

Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: Stays mean and maintains a bit of an edge even when it threatens to go all soft and gooey. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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 more

Justin Chang, Variety: "We're the Filler" might have been a more apt title ... Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, AV Club: Loud and annoying? Occasionally. Funny? Sometimes. Likely to be noticed by filmgoers six months from now? Not really. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "We're the Millers" plays like a "Saturday Night Live" skit that goes on too long. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: For a movie about a group of drug smugglers pretending to be an all-American clan, "We're the Millers" hogs the middle of the road like the big, farty RV at its center. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: When the end-credit bloopers roll, Sudeikis and Aniston, free of the contrived plot, look like they're finally having fun. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: The filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions, falling back on moments of egregiously false sentimentality whenever the material threatens to turn dark. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The crux of the humor depends on the Sudeikis and Aniston characters bickering in a way that spells l-o-v-e, but the screenplay spells it a-g-g-r-a-v-a-t-i-o-n instead. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Even tastelessness needs to have some taste. The blue humor in We're the Millers is just bland. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: A laugh-out-loud comic trek that avoids being either too crude or too docile. If a summer of high-impact blockbusters has left you worn out, join the Millers for a laugh. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: 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 more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: One could make a great movie out of this set-up, though sadly "We're the Millers" doesn't. Read more

Wesley Morris, Grantland: The movie's lingering close-ups on yearning faces and heart-to-heart conversations force the fake Millers into real familial longing that's more bogus than the family itself. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: We're the Millers is vulgar vanilla, a "family" comedy about a bunch of would-be golly-gee squares who talk dirty and get involved with Mexican drug dealers because it's 2013 instead of 1953. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: "We're the Millers" is full of moments that feel as forced as the marriage of convenience - and contrivance - in the movie. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: A smarter, more thoughtful comedy could have made something interesting out of this material, but "We're the Millers" takes the easy route. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: In the end, Sudeikis is a little too smarmy and Aniston a little too clean-cut to really sell these characters ... Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: 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 more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Jason Sudeikis in the lead? As a drug dealer who could never hope to pass for a picket-fence type? Please, the man looks like he was born in a Lands' End catalog. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: The baseline for American movie humor sinks once again in this sentimentally cynical and cynically sentimental farce. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: An innocuously smutty road comedy starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Some of the jokes are funny. If one was to compile all the good snippets and scenes into a highlight reel, it might run about six minutes. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: 'We're the Millers' clicks on just enough cylinders to warrant a recommendation. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It boils down to the idea that men and women alike yearn for what they don't have, and that making your way through life is about seizing the bizarre opportunities it thrusts at you. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A movie written by a committee, too long, but the cast carries it a long way, these mild virtues don't quite add up to a recommendation, but if you said you wanted to see it I wouldn't block the door. Read more

Kara Nesvig, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Though incredibly predictable from start to finish, "We're the Millers" did make me laugh. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: We'd have to be stoned to be interested in these characters or to be surprised when they form a surrogate family just in time for the blooper reel. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: We're The Millers asks you to believe that somewhere in this world there's a pot dealer who prides himself on not selling to kids and a stripper who never takes her bra off. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: By ending with outtakes that wind up being the funniest part of the film, "We're the Millers" basically confesses that its talented cast would have been much better off untethered from the pedestrian screenplay. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: With jokes cloned from bad taste movies and off-kids-telly villains, it doesn't even qualify for dumb fun. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Do you find insults revolving around the words Marky Mark, churros and/or #YOLO hilarious? How about the notion of a dorky white kid flawlessly rapping TLC's "Waterfalls"? Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Not only is it not funny, it's offensive. Read more

Inkoo Kang, Village Voice: 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 more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: 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 more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: 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 more