WE'RE THE MILLERS

Warner Bros.

Rated R

Running time: 110 Minutes



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In Warner Bros. We're the Millers, pot dealer Jason Sudeikis gets his drug money and stash stolen and is forced by his drug lord Ed Helms to bring a "smidgen" of marijuana across the border from Mexico - by using a fake family in an RV.

In this raunchy comedy, Sudeikis realizes the only way that he can get through border customs is to pose as a family. The dysfunctional group of people that he hires, stripper neighbor Jennifer Aniston, teen aged runaway girl Emma Roberts, along with his virgin neighbor Will Poulter to become the All-American Family the "Millers" in order to sneak past the border. The road trip back and forth from Mexico becomes even more raunchy when they meet up and make camp with their RV counterparts, the "Fitzgerald's" - Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, and Molly Quinn. In the meantime, the "Millers" get chased by Mexican drug lord Tomer Sisley and his henchman, former NFL player Matthew Willig, because Sisley wants his marijuana back from Sudeikis.

I thought Jennifer Aniston was pretty hot as a stripper. I liked the fact that - despite the fact that they're not being a real family and rather hate each other - the "Millers" pull together and do become a family. Sudeikis reluctantly becomes a father to Poulter and Roberts, with Aniston being a natural mother. I actually thought that henchman Willig had more of a presence in the movie than his boss drug lord Sisley. Helms is decidedly sleazy as Sudeikis businessman drug lord.

At the end of the movie are bloopers, including a classic blooper concerning the Millers and Aniston.

Rated R for drug material, language, sexual situations, violence, nudity. Running time: 110 Minutes.

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THE WOLVERINE

Twentieth Century Fox

Rated PG-13

Running time: 126 Minutes



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In Twentieth-Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment's The Wolverine, mutant hermit Wolverine - Hugh Jackman - is brought out of isolation by Rila Fukushima to have her industrialist employer dying from cancer Hal Yamanouchi reward Jackman for saving Yamanouchi's life years ago during WWII.

In a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand - featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, and based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller - Producer and Star Jackman/Wolverine is being tormented by hallucinations and has secluded himself in the woods as a result. When Fukushima locates him, Jackman reluctantly goes with her to Japan and gets immersed into the Japanese samurai/ronin culture as he gets involved in protecting Yamanouchi's granddaughter Tao Okamoto from deadly Yakuza samurai.

I liked that they covered the Japanese culture in this X-Men Origins movie like they have had covered in the comic book and that the wild man Jackman struggles to be a part of the Japanese culture. Jackman is also a fan of the comic book and the Japanese saga and you can see this fandom of the book being used in the movie. You see Jackman in action as The Wolverine which was pretty awesome with his admantium claws and mutant healing ability, even if he does get his ass kicked sometimes. Having four strong women in the film, including Svetlana Khodchenkova, and Wolverine/Jackman's relationships with them in the movie is great.

Comic book creator and Executive Producer Stan Lee does not have his typical cameo in this movie, but there is a bottle of whiskey named Stanley's Whiskey. This is the first X-Men film to be released in 3D and IMAX. The film was scheduled to be released in Japan in mid-September out of respect for the August anniversaries of the nuclear attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of which Nagasaki has prominent scenes in the movie. I would have preferred the Silver Samurai to be of human size than of giant robot size.

At the end of the movie during the end credits, there is a scene which refers to the next movie X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, sexual situations. Running time: 126 Minutes.

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RED 2

Summit Entertainment

Rated PG-13

Running time: 116 Minutes



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In Summit Entertainment's Red 2, in association with DC Entertainment, ex-CIA agent Bruce Willis - who lives a nice domestic life by shopping at Costco - has been brought out of retirement by John Malkovich because a file of an operation that they were involved with back in the 70's in Moscow, Russia during the Cold War has been leaked onto the Internet - and now everyone wants them dead.

In this sequel to Red, based on the limited comic book series created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner published by the DC Comics imprint Homage, Willis has settled down to a nice homey life with his girl - bored Mary-Louise Parker. Due to it's comic book origins, there were several art graphics of the characters and scenes in the movie.

While Red was great in introducing the characters, I think I like Red 2 better as a movie more for the story and the characters in Red 2 had more characterization to me than in the original Red.

Helen Mirren is still great as a two-gun toting assassin. Mirren's scenes with contract killer Byung-hun Lee were delightful to see. It is rather touching that Lee's late father Jong Kun Lee is listed in the end credits as one of the main cast in the movie for the use of his pictures as Lee's father, especially when he had dreamed of being an actor himself. I liked the rivalness between Parker and Russian agent Catherine Zeta-Jones, both women of Willis relationships with women. Of course Willis was very uncomfortable when they got together. My favorite scenes were the juxtaposition of the action and Willis's and Parker's domestic scenes, or at least of Willis trying to domesticate Parker's action lust. Neal McDonough, Lt. Hawk in Star Trek: First Contact, was great as the bad guy. It is curious to me in that another Star Trek actor, Karl Urban, was the bad guy in the original Red movie. I hope for that the next Red movie that we will have another Star Trek actor as the bad guy. McDonough was practically psychopathic in his zealousness of getting Willis. David Thewlis initially seemed like a great character, but in actuality he did not have much characterization. Thewlis seemed more like a MacGuffin instead of a major character. Anthony Hopkins was quite appropriate as an eccentric scientist who appears to fit right in with all the other eccentric characters.

All of the characters were rather ambiguous as to which side they were on, which is especially distressing when you consider the stakes of what was happening. So it was rather distressing to me when MI6 and the CIA were after Willis and the other Red agents.

I am looking forward to the next installment of Red.

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Rated PG-13 for violence and language. Running time: 116 Minutes.

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