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The majority of comedy films tend to follow plot formulas involving a mild-mannered character stumbling across a problem that goes through a series of outlandish challenges to take care of the problem while discovering something new or life-changing about himself along the way. Broken down like that, it seems kind of plain, doesn’t it? What writers and directors have been doing is elevating the absurdity surrounding these characters and their obstacles. Sometimes, it works out; most of the time, it doesn’t.
We’re the Millers, based on the first trailer below, seems like it could go either way. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball), the film is about a drug dealer named David (Jason Sudeikis) who’s in huge debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order to pay it off, Brad sends David on a job to smuggle weed into the country from Mexico. However, to successfully do so, he needs to create a fake family to not raise suspicion from the border agents… the problem is that he doesn’t have a family. Instead, he hires a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway (Emma Roberts), and one of his potential customers (Will Poulter) to pose as his family. And, as always, hilarity ensues.
The trailer gives good exposition on the film and shares the comedic tone of the film, which seems to be going for over-the-top hilarity involving dick jokes and Jennifer Aniston as a stripper. Wonderful. We’re the Millers is scheduled to release in theaters August 9th.