Vacation (2015)

I remember seeing the trailer to Vacation like it was yesterday. To be honest, I only remember Chris Hemsworth's huge bulge which is the reason the movie ended up on my watchlist. Three years later, I finally watched this, and it was glorious. I'm still talking about Hemsworth's (prosthetic) penis though. 

Fifth instalment of the Vacation series, the film follows Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) as he takes his wife, Debbie (Christina Applegate), and their two sons, James (Skyler Gisondo) and Kevin (Steele Stebbins), on a road trip to Walley World, an amusement park, just like he did with his parents and sister when he was a kid. And everything goes wrong, of course. 

Tag (2018)

Something I like to do is go on IMDb and look for movie suggestions --as if having 1,000+ movies on my list wasn't enough. That's how I stumbled across Tag and, convinced it either had Amy Adams or Charlize Theron, I decided to check it out.

The film tells the story of a group of friends, Hogan "Hoagie" Malloy (Ed Helms), Bob Callahan (Jon Hamm), Randy "Chilli" Cilliano (Jake Johnson), Kevin Sable (Hannibal Buress) and Jerry Pierce (Jeremy Renner), who has been playing the same game of tag for 30 years. When Jerry who has never been tagged plans to retire from the game after his upcoming wedding, the four remaining friends team together to finally tag him.

We're the Millers (2013)

Genre

Comedy

Director

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Country

United States

Cast

Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Ed Helms, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Molly Quinn, Tomer Sisley, Matthew Willig, Luis Guzmán, Thomas Lennon, Mark L. Young, Ken Marino, Laura-Leigh

Plot

Forced to smuggle marijuana from Mexico, David Clark (Jason Sudeikis), a low-level drug dealer, he hires a stripper named Rose (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway and petty thief named Casey (Emma Roberts), and his 18-year-old neighbour Kenny (Will Poulter) to pose as a family: the Millers. 

Opinion

Nowadays, most American comedies are fuelled by sex or money. Well, this film has both. 

We're the Millers is a vulgar road movie, that at first mocks family movies, but then ends up doing an advertisement about family and its importance.

The cast is mostly awful: Jennifer Aniston still can't act, Jason Sudeikis is annoying as usual and Will Poulter is awkward in his role. Good choice Emma Roberts: avoiding attempts at comedy was brilliant. 

Quotes

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Rating

6.0/10