Are We Done Yet? (2007)

Director:

Steve Carr

Writers (WGA):

Hank Nelken (screenplay)
Hank Nelken (screen story)

Release Date:

4 April 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Family

Tagline:

New house. New family. What could possibly go wrong?

Plot:

Newlyweds Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Long) decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor (McGinley) with a bizarre approach to business. |

Plot Keywords:

Contractor | Giving Birth | Tattoo | Childbirth | Male Midwife

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ice Cube	...	Nick Persons
Nia Long	...	Suzanne Persons
John C. McGinley	...	Chuck Mitchell, Jr.
Aleisha Allen	...	Lindsey Persons
Philip Bolden	...	Kevin Persons (as Philip Daniel Bolden)
Jonathan Katz	...	Mr. Rooney
Linda Kash	...	Mrs. Rooney
Alexander Kalugin	...	Russian Contractor
Dan Joffre	...	Billy Pulu
Pedro Miguel Arce	...	Georgie Pulu
Tahj Mowry	...	Danny Pulu
Jacob Vargas	...	Mike the Plumber
Brenda Prieur	...	Grandma Pulu
Hayes MacArthur	...	Jimmy the Bartender
Colin Strange	...	Persons' Twins

Also Known As:

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (USA) (working title)
No Place Like Home (USA) (working title)
Quand est-ce qu'on arrête? (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for some innuendos and brief language.

Runtime:

USA:92 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | USA:PG (certificate #42760) | Ireland:PG | UK:PG | Germany:6 | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:6 | Canada:G (Alberta/British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Ontario/Quebec) | Argentina:Atp | Portugal:M/6 | Finland:K-7 | South Korea:12

Filming Locations:

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Revolution Studios

Trivia:

A quote from Nick, "I don't know karate, but I know ka-razay!" when he's confronting Chuck, is actually lyrics from James Brown's 1974 single "The Payback" from the album of the same name.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the Pearsons new neighbor talks to Nick about Chuck's wife he had glasses on, when they focus on Nick and back at him his glasses are gone, they don't show him taking them off, and so quickly, not possible.

Quotes:

Nick Persons: You're the local real estate guy.
Chuck Mitchell, Jr.: I'm also the local contractor.

Movie Connections:

References "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" (1969)

Soundtrack:

Shake You Down

Nothing Special, But Decent Enough To Keep Watching

The first one ARE WE THERE YET, wasn't a great movie so I didn't expect this one to be either.

I always like ICE CUBE though, even when he's in a crappy movie (which he's usually not).

The first one was better, it was more of a road-movie which was a different kind of movie for ICE CUBE, while this one of course is not a road-movie since it's about moving in to their dream-home.

So there aren't to many surprises in the movie, it includes a lot of scenes where people fall and hurts themselves or gets stuff thrown at them.

I'm not really in to that type of slap-stick comedy so those parts for the most parts didn't amuse me to much, I liked though how ICE CUBE played his character often with a sarcastic tone to it and it seems like he improvised a lot, which was good.

JOHN MCGUINLY (from TV's SCRUBS) is at first incredibly annoying BUT he grows on you and after a while he's a pleasant drop-in in the movie.

I didn't like Cube's daughter to much so the scenes where only she was included of the family was a snoozer, but thankfully those scenes were very few. TAHJ MAWRY from TV's SISTER SISTER and SMART GUY turns up as Cube's daughter's love-interest, and I sure liked him on those TV-shows but I sure found him annoying in this movie.

Anyhow, the best performance of all comes from JACOB VARGAS he's infinitely hilarious in this movie!

The story is very simple and it usually goes for very cheap laughs, but off and on it goes it's way and delivers but it will never be a Comedy classic or anything like that.

Sometimes you wish that it wasn't a family-comedy so that ICE CUBE can go straight gully, but of course you can wish as much as you want it's not gonna happen.

5 out of 10 , Nothing Special but Decent Enough To Keep Watching.