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Are We Done Yet? (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 90 Fresh: 7  Rotten:83 Average Rating: 3.3/10
 
Consensus: Are We Done Yet? plays it way too safe with generic slapstick and uninspired domestic foibles.
 

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

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

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 family-man in the hilarious home-improvement farce ARE WE DONE YET? Now married to Suzanne... 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]

Genre: Childrens

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

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

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 8, 2007

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
  • PCM 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind the Scenes - 1. Kidding Around on the Set: Making of
  • Blooper Reel
  • Featurettes - 1. "Chuck Mitchell. Jr.: Jack of All Trades"

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Trivia - ARE WE DONE YET Film Quiz

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

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07/12/07
Anna Smith
Time Out
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1/5

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.

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06/19/07
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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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.

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06/09/07
Edward Porter
Times [UK]
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1/5

As unfortunate titles for cynically commercial sequels go, this one's a doozy

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06/09/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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1/5

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.

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06/08/07
Anthony Quinn
Independent
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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.

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06/08/07
Tristan Burke
Channel 4 Film
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1/5

Avoid at all costs.

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06/08/07
Johnny Vaughan
Sun Online
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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.

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06/08/07
Neil Smith
BBC
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2/5

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.

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06/08/07
Total Film
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Even John C McGinley (Dr. Cox from Scrubs) can't save this lamest of comedies.

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06/08/07
Tony Horkins
Empire Magazine
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We're finished.

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08/02/07
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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2/5

passable but far from inspired

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07/15/07
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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An acknowledged remake of the old Cary Grant movie Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. As far as I could tell, that's because everyone involved was inspired by the syllable "Bland" in the title.

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05/28/07
Bob Strauss
Dallas Morning News
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The slapstick isn't sadistic. But that doesn't make this sequel's propensity of scenes where animals attack Nick, and moments where he learns the difference between a house and a home, more than inoffensive.

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04/25/07
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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There's no attempt at even a plot, short of the all too predictable ending where it all turns out fine

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04/24/07
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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1/5

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

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04/21/07
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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Well, it's not as mean-spirited as its predecessor.

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04/18/07
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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Director Steve Carr is apparently the go-to guy for African-American comedy actors looking to destroy any last vestiges of already waning credibility.

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04/12/07
Brent Simon
FilmStew.com
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1/5

The real question is whether or not Ice Cube's career is done yet.

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04/11/07
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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4/10

Dull and forgettable, relentlessly extending this family comedy franchise.

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04/10/07
Susan Granger
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