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Are We Done Yet? (2007)

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Reviews Counted:91

Fresh:7

Rotten:84

Average Rating:3.3/10

Consensus: Are We Done Yet? plays it way too safe with generic slapstick and uninspired domestic foibles.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for some innuendos and brief language

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Childrens

Theatrical Release:08-06-2007

Synopsis: Rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube reprises his role as the Everyman-sports-fanatic Nick Persons of the road-trip slapstick comedy ARE WE THERE YET? (2005), evolving from bachelorhood to domesticated... Rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube reprises his role as the Everyman-sports-fanatic Nick Persons of the road-trip slapstick comedy ARE WE THERE YET? (2005), evolving from bachelorhood to domesticated family-man in the hilarious home-improvement farce ARE WE DONE YET? Now married to Suzanne (Nia Long) and stepfather to her kids, Lindsey (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Phillip Bolden), Nick decides to change careers, selling his half of a sports memorabilia store to launch a sports magazine. Just as he is about to get things started he finds out that Suzanne is pregnant with twins! Already cramped in his small city apartment, he decides its time to move to the country, where he can raise his new family in more wide open spaces. They are charmed, and duped, by local realtor Chuck Mitchell Jr. (John C. McGinley), who also turns out to be the local inspector and general contractor, to purchase a beautiful mid-1800's house, a "fixer-upper" on sprawling property, complete with pond and guest house. But their dream home becomes a never-ending nightmarish endeavor, and between Suzanne's pregnancy, Nick's magazine launch, and adapting to the country life, it's not clear who will implode first, the house or the family. Based on another RKO Radio Pictures film, MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948), starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, ARE WE DONE YET? provides an entertaining look at how families cope, and eventually bond, through adversity, and the unexpected. Ice Cube (FRIDAY, BARBERSHOP) and McGinley (SCRUBS, OFFICE SPACE) have tremendous on-screen chemistry, even though their comedic styles are quite different, Cube with his pessimistic and grimacing double-take responses and McGinley with his overbearing energy and game-show-host grin. Despite all the tension, and some adult themes, ARE WE DONE YET? is a good, clean, fun-for-the-whole-family film. [More]

Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden

Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden, John C. McGinley

Director: Steve Carr

Director: Steve Carr
Screenwriter: Hank Nelken
Producer: Matt Alvarez, Ice Cube, Ted Hartley
Composer: Teddy Castellucci
Screenwriter: Eric Wald
Producer: Todd Garner
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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McGinley, as it happens, is the film's only trump card, his madcap multi-tasker stealing every scene he's in and leaving the movie's nominal star for dead.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/08/07
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
BBC
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Dull at best, painfully unfunny at worst, let's hope the answer to Are We Done Yet? is in the affirmative.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/08/07
Tristan Burke
Tristan Burke
Channel 4 Film
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Even John C McGinley (Dr. Cox from Scrubs) can't save this lamest of comedies.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
06/08/07
Tony Horkins
Tony Horkins
Empire Magazine
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As unfortunate titles for cynically commercial sequels go, this one's a doozy

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
06/09/07
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Oh, I do hope so. Why Ice Cube thought his wretched family outing Are We There Yet? deserved a sequel is baffling, since all it revealed was his complete ineptitude as a light comedian.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
06/08/07
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Avoid at all costs.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
06/08/07
Johnny Vaughan
Johnny Vaughan
Sun Online

Let’s just hope the kids find burping raccoons and crumbling ceilings hilarious.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
07/12/07
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Time Out
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The only thing in Steve Carr’s fatuous movie that earns a few giggles is John C McGinley’s silliness as a new-age builder.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
06/09/07
Edward Porter
Edward Porter
Times [UK]
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US audiences ate it up and there are just enough laughs to appease those whose tastes run to utterly undemanding kiddie slapstick and life lessons.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
06/08/07
Total Film

Basically, the title says it all and if you're unlucky enough to end up seeing this, you'll be repeating that title for the entire 96 minutes. Avoid.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment 2 Comments
06/19/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Call it habitat for stupidity.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
04/04/07
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

This is the kind of movie that gives family films a bad name.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
04/03/07
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic

Nothing is very funny in this movie, and everything is predictable.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
04/21/07
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

It isn't gangsta, but it's winning all the same.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
04/07/07
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

We're finished.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
08/02/07
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

The problem with the new film is that Ice Cube is too cool for the plot's nonsense. The faulty house and McGinley's behavior never inspire him to blow his top.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
04/04/07
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

There's lots of falling down, sloppy food messes and animals taunting the heroes. Cube does a good job mugging it up in his pratfalls. He shows he doesn't have to take himself seriously but can commit to the ridiculous with joy.

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment Comment
04/07/07
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine

Director Steve Carr continues his streak of numbingly mediocre family comedies.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/05/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

'I can fix that,' Nick says each time a new problem arises in the house. How are we supposed to believe that when the filmmakers couldn't fix this poorly constructed sequel from its prefab origins?

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
04/04/07
Teresa Budasi
Teresa Budasi
Chicago Sun-Times
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Calling a sequel Are We Done Yet? is like calling it Enough Already.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
04/03/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
 
 
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