Bob Fisher and Steve Faber co-wrote the successful but charmless Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn romp Wedding Crashers in 2005. This is better: a genial broad comedy directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (who gave us Dodgeball) about a small-time drug dealer who must appease a crime kingpin by bringing a vast amount of marijuana into the US from Mexico. He figures he won't get stopped at the border if he rents an RV and hires three dysfunctional misfits so they can all pose as a squeaky-clean family. Jason Sudeikis is the bogus drug-dealing "dad"; Jennifer Aniston is the broke lapdancer Rose who agrees to be his beaming, wholesome wife, and mom to their two fake kids. It's a goofy road movie with some nice gags. Hang on for the outtake bloopers over the credits and you'll see Aniston momentarily unsure how to take a joke at her expense.
a slacker forced through debts to smuggle a major drug consignment across the border from Mexico on a Fourth of July weekend.As cover he recruits a foul-mouthed, streetwise stripper (Jennifer Aniston) living in the same run-down Denver apartment block and two dodgy teenage neighbours to pose as his family, and the result is often funny but not extravagantly or consistently so. A typical joke is signalled by the appearance early on of a giant spider in a basket of fruit in Mexico. As Chekhov would have said, if you introduce a deadly spider in the first act, it must bite someone's testicles in the third act. Jennifer Aniston is, as she always was in Friends, a delight.