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Are We There Yet?
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for language and rude humor
Starring
Ice Cube,
Nia Long,
Aleisha Allen,
Philip Bolden,
Jay Mohr,
M.C. Gainey,
C. Ernst Harth, Nichelle Nichols,
and
Henry Simmons
In this family comedy, Nick (Ice Cube), a smooth operator, is trying to land a date with a young, attractive divorcee, Suzanne (Long). He gallantly offers to drive her children from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver to be reunited with their mom. What Nick doesn't know is that Suzanne's children think that no man is good enough for their mom and will do everything they can to make the trip a nightmare for him. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride. (Sony)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Family/Kids
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Steven Gary Banks (also story)
Claudia Grazioso (also story)
J. David Stem
David N. Weiss
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Brian Levant
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 24, 2005
Theatrical: January 21, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Won't make your day, but it won't kill it either.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Cube is cute and Long is lovely, but the youngsters are too brash and smug to bear. At least there's a heartwarming end to the excursion.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
This is not the plot of your typical Ice Cube movie. It does, however, combine the plots of at least three John Hughes movies.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's been a while since we saw a bad John Hughes comedy, and Are We There Yet? more than fits the bill (even though Hughes had absolutely nothing to do with it).

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I would have loved to see a genuine love story involving Ice Cube, Nia Long, and the challenge of a lifelong bachelor dating a woman with children. Sad that a story like that couldn't get made, but this shrill "comedy" could.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
I can't recall ever having seen a single bad Ice Cube performance, and his utter charm even in flimsy material like this only reaffirms his gifts.

40
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
All the excessive slapstick and juvenile antics keep the audience from making any kind of connection with the characters and prevents Are We There Yet? from being anything more than another disposable January release.

40
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
It's all a big, boring failure of slapstick and degradation. Of course, that's not to say your kids won't like it.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Surely the only thing more excruciating than being trapped in a car with a bratty child is having to sit through a road-trip movie that features two of them.

40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The always charismatic Ice Cube makes Are We There Yet? watchable.

40
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Ice Cube tries his hand at family comedy in this phony story.

40
Variety
Scott Foundas
Are We There Yet? traps the affable Ice Cube in a dismal kiddy slapstick saga that even his considerable charisma can do little to enhance.

40
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Levant and his screenwriting posse attempt to wring maximum hilarity from this setup, but it's just too schizoid.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Not worth the ride.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Have we such short memories that we have already forgotten last year's feeble "Johnson Family Vacation?"

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Gets nowhere. Its star Ice Cube remains characteristically amiable, but this thuddingly miscalculated comedy is way beneath him.

30
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Runs 96 minutes but feels like so much more. There is only one gag.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
I started out this journey actually liking children. By the end of the movie, I wasn't so sure.

30
Washington Post
Teresa Wiltz
The humor's a tad too raunchy for the kids, and the predictable plot won't win over any of the parents.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Leah McLaren
Uh oh, pull over, I think I'm gonna be carsick.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Will have most audiences asking, "Can we leave now?"

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This gnarly and illogical little sitcom is bound to make any adult reconsider that next outing with the kids.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Sour slapstick assault with a tin heart and counterfeit sentimentality.

25
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The affable Ice Cube is all that makes this forced, unfunny film watchable, and, frankly, it's hard watching him waste his efforts on a movie so woefully cynical.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A vulgar, grating alleged "family" comedy.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Repetitive, predictable comedy.

0
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
All too effectively conveys the claustrophobic horror of being shackled in a small space with two whiny, hateful children.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Four screenwriters are credited with this sloppy piece of work. Divide the embarrassment into quarters.


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