We're the Millers

Small time drug dealer David is mugged by a group of neighborhood punks that take his weed and all his money. As he is now in the red with the Brad, who he deals for, he has to agree to go to Mexico to pick up a large amount of drugs for "Pablo Chacon". Brad leads him to believe that he uses that name with the Mexicans.

As a cover, David rents a family - his stripping neighbor Rose, his dorky 'friend' Kenny and a girl crashing on couches, Casey - the Millers. Together they go to Mexico in an RV and pick up a massive amount of weed and go on their merry way. Unfortunately, the real Pablo Chacon shows up right after and together with a huge honcho he goes hunting for the 'family' that he believes stole his drugs.

The Millers, unaware that they are being followed, have trouble with their RV (of course) and get help from fellow RV travelers, the Fitzgeralds. The father Don works for the DEA (of course), so the Millers cannot wait to get away from them. When they go to pick up their fixed vehicle, the baddies have caught up with them but the family manages to flee.

They hit another bump in the road, when Kenny gets bitten by a huge spider (courtesy of the honcho's mother) and they have to stop for medical help right next to an amusement park (uhm...), there they run into the Fitzgeralds and Pablo again (of course). In the confusion that follows, they take out the bad guys, Mr. Fitzgerald finds out that they have been smuggling drugs but lets them go anyway. In return, David helps the DEA take down Brad and he and the rest of the Millers go into witness protection together (of course).

And, yes, David and Rose (real name Sarah) do fall in love.

6/10

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

A struggling car dealership owner calls in salesman extraordinaire Don Ready to move some cars and avoid having to sell the lot and have it turned into a rehearsal space for the local boy band (man band). Their claim to fame is that they once opened for O-Town (remember them?).

Don has his demons pestering him because he falls for the car dealer's daughter Ivy. Something similar has happened once before in Albuquerque ("Querque") a while back, when he was more interested in getting laid than concentrating on his trade - something that cost his best friend his life.

To complicate matters further, he also thinks that one of the young salesmen may be his son.

Yeah it's ridiculous but it also features a lot of actors you would expect in a weird comedy.

4/10

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Slacker Jeff lives in his mother's basement, waiting for a sign. He imagines the signs to appear and tell him what to do, because he has watched the film Signs. Repeatedly.

So, on one particular day, when someone calls the house looking for a Kevin, Jeff believes that this is what he has been waiting for. He is supposed to get glue to fix his mother's shutters but gets distracted by a guy in a basketball jersey with the name Kevin on it. From there he follows the Kevins he sees (on a candy deliver truck, say) while at the same time, together with his brother Pat, trying to find out whether Pat's wife Linda is having an affair.

Their mother has her own awkward day in the office when a 'secret admirer' contacts her via instant message. After lots of confusion Jeff and Pat are in a cab following Linda's car and end up in the same traffic jam as the mother, who is about to go to New Orleans on a whim with the admirer. While they are all waiting for an accident to be cleared up, Jeff has an epiphany and runs to the sight of the accident and jumps in the water to help a family whose car has gone over the side of the bridge. He saves two little girls and their father named - wait for it - Kevin.

Nice little movie, even for someone (like myself) who does not get the infatuation with Jason Segel.

6/10

The Hangover Part III

The third part of the comedy series has something the second part didn't - a plot.

It starts with Alan's family and friends staging an intervention. The wolf pack sets out to take him to a treatment facility in Arizona. On the highway they get pushed off the road by a truck and then brought in front of one Marshall, who has some beef with the evil genius that is Mr. Chow. Chow recently escaped from a Thai prison and has disappeared before Marshall could get back the gold Chow had stolen from him earlier. The only one that has had contact with him, apparently, was Alan.

Doug gets taken (again) by Marshall, who threatens to kill him unless Alan, Phil and Stu bring him Chow. The search leads them first to Tihuana and, after unwittingly assisting Chow in stealing the remainder of Marshall's gold, once again in Las Vegas.

The wolf pack manages to return the villain to Marshall, but soft hearted Alan saves Chow's life, giving him 'a fighting chance'. Marshall and company bite bullets.

And Alan finds romance! Good for him!

6/10