MYST POST #1:  WE'RE THE MILLERS

I saw this movie last week with my friend, Julie, and I can honestly say I have never laughed harder.  Just from the trailer, I expected "We're the Millers" to be just a regular comedy where I'd get in a phew laughs.  However, I was consistently dying of laughter along with the rest of the audience throughout the whole movie.  Without giving too much away, I believe a brief summary of the movie is needed.  The movie is basically about this drug dealer named David (Jason Sudeikis) who is assigned to travel down to Mexico to bring back a big drug shipment in order to please his supplier.  However, David realizes the difficulty in crossing the border undetected, and therefore hires three random people to play his wife (Jennifer Aniston) and kids in order to seem less suspicious.  The majority of the movie describes their journey and the challenges they have to overcome along the way.  

The director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, uses multiple techniques and camerawork throughout the movie.  Whenever the bad guys (drug dealers in Mexico) are in scenes, the camera is pointed upward to show the suspense and superiority of the big bad drug dealers.  Also, often during scenes where Thurber wants to show each character's emotions, he will have the camera flash from character to character very suddenly and quickly.  This way, the audience gets to see and compare the different feelings and reactions of the characters.  Thurber will use a slow motion technique during certain scenes to emphasize the comedic aspect in the scene.  Overall, I think the director did a great job filming the movie.

There is one specific scene that definitely left a memory in my head.  While on the trip, one of the "kids" is explaining how he has never kissed a girl before.  To help him out, Aniston and other kid (Emma Roberts) demonstrate how to give a good kiss.  The two are going back and forth switching off kissing the boy to give him experience in kissing.  This whole scene was hilarious on many different levels.  First off, the fact that the characters are supposed to be a family and yet are kissing each other is crazy.  Also, the director does a nice job of quickly filming the dad, David, to show is casual reaction to the whole idea.  And to top it off, at the end of the scene a girl that they met on the trip walks up appalled and witnesses the whole thing.  Everyone burst out laughing during this scene, including me. 

This movie definitely is comparable to the movie Horrible Bosses.  Not only are Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis characters in that movie as well, but the comedy and humor is very similar.  Also, Thurber directed the movie Dodgeball, which I feel can fit under the same category of comedy.  All three movies use modern jokes and references to make the audience laugh.  It isn't so much like comedies back in the day, where characters would fall off trains and get stupidly injured.  However, I think that the type of humor used in We're the Millers is more relative to the audience.  Anyone who enjoys comedies would like this movie.  I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.  This is a must-see movie, so make sure to add it to your list!

Check out this trailer if you are interested...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vsy5KzsieQ