By Bob Gibbons
There is hope for Jennifer Aniston after all. After a string of just awful movies (remember The Bounty Hunter?) following her long-term TV success, she made the outrageously funny Horrible Bosses and now this – her second entertaining movie in which she plays a girl of questionable morals with a potty mouth. Again, she’s smirking her way all through this film because she’s having fun and is definitely in on the joke. And, once again, pairing with Jason Sudeikis works; he was in Horrible Bosses also. He has the boyish charm and likeability of a Steve Carell and so we’re on his side from the beginning, even though we know that nothing serious will happen to him. In fact, this is a film where once you know the plot, you will know the ending because, yeah, movies that start like this always end like that. But this is a journey – literally – and so the entertainment comes from enjoying the trip – figuratively and emotionally – as the characters work their way to their final destination. If you’re offended by frank (and often very funny) talk about sex – or frequent use of the F word – you will be very offended by this movie. But, at its heart, it’s really not an offensive film; and if it reminds you of the “happy to be crude” humor of Dodgeball, there’s a reason: both movies were directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. It’s not great, but it is entertaining if only because you will like the Millers as a family. And the outtakes at the end – and especially the last one – are well-worth staying for.