| 75 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
It isn't gangsta, but it's winning all the same.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The unchecked enthusiasm of McGinley as the touchy-feely renovation guru gives slow-burn Cube the perfect foil and mellows the malicious comic tone. The rest is pure slapstick.
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| 58 |
Baltimore Sun
There's a funny premise at the core of Are We Done Yet? Too bad the movie doesn't do much with it.
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| 50 |
New York Post
While the latest installment avoids the nonstop parade of potty jokes, it never rises much past the level of mediocrity.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Obvious, but at least it's clean.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
After allowing sadistic violence and whining children to invade his movie like a horde of termites, Carr tries to put one over on us by tacking on a sentimental ending. But as any homeowner could have told him, you can't disguise a weak foundation with a cheap finish.
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| 50 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Tpicture delivers the requisite number of pratfalls, and the genial Ice Cube makes for a credibly hapless everyman, but the comedy still feels a little too safely soft around the edges.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Sam Adams
Although Ice Cube is still happy to haul out his old snarl when it serves his purposes, he's clearly trying to reinvent himself as a family entertainer. But the milder he gets, the less confident he seems. What's a reformed gangsta rapper to do?
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| 40 |
The New York Times
An ill-advised sequel to "Are We There Yet?" and a feeble fable of better parenting through home improvement.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Fans of the first film can rest assured that a change in the director's chair has done little to curb the overall tone of slapstick desperation.
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| 40 |
Variety
John Anderson
Supposedly based on "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," but has about as much to do with that frothy Cary Grant confection as a Yugo has to do with a 1948 Buick Roadster.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Been-there-seen-that wannabe laughfest.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Calling a sequel Are We Done Yet? is like calling it "Enough Already."
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| 38 |
TV Guide
The film desperately needs a stronger script; one with a few funny jokes would be nice.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
The movie needs Richard Dreyfuss .
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| 30 |
Washington Post
John C. McGinley from "Scrubs" gets to strut some of his comic stuff as the deranged builder, but he's the only passable feature in a property that should be condemned.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Director Steve Carr continues his streak of numbingly mediocre family comedies.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
Atrocious sequel.
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| 25 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
If all this sounds familiar, it should. Fathers seldom fare very well in family comedies.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Nothing is very funny in this movie, and everything is predictable.
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| 20 |
Empire
Staff (Not credited)
Even John C McGinley (Dr. Cox from Scrubs) can't save this lamest of comedies.
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