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Are We There Yet?

EMAILPRINTColumbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment

Are We There Yet? reviews
27
2.9 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 40 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Family/Kids

Written by: Steven Gary Banks (also story)
Claudia Grazioso (also story)
J. David Stem
David N. Weiss

Directed by: Brian Levant

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 21, 2005
DVD: May 24, 2005

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Won't make your day, but it won't kill it either.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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40

The New York Times Dana Stevens

The always charismatic Ice Cube makes Are We There Yet? watchable.

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40

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Ice Cube tries his hand at family comedy in this phony story.

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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.

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40

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

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

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38

USA Today Claudia Puig

Not worth the ride.

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30

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Have we such short memories that we have already forgotten last year's feeble "Johnson Family Vacation?"

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30

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Gets nowhere. Its star Ice Cube remains characteristically amiable, but this thuddingly miscalculated comedy is way beneath him.

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30

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Runs 96 minutes but feels like so much more. There is only one gag.

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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.

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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.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Leah McLaren

Uh oh, pull over, I think I'm gonna be carsick.

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25

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Will have most audiences asking, "Can we leave now?"

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25

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

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

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25

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Sour slapstick assault with a tin heart and counterfeit sentimentality.

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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.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A vulgar, grating alleged "family" comedy.

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20

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Repetitive, predictable comedy.

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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.

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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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 2.9 (out of 10) based on 40 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Brian G. gave it a6:
Yo.. the movie was aight....in the movie ice cube had alittle diffculty with the children you know what mean that part was funny... then around the middle ice cube had alittle trouble wit the kids that was kinda boring... but i really enjoyed it.

G gave it an8:
No complex storylines to suck the enjoyment out of it. Plain and simple entertainment.

Marco M. gave it a3:
Boring, typical, same old same old! I didn’t think people still mad films like these! Really bad!

Miriam M gave it a0:
Absoloutley TERRIBLE!!!!! Not funny at all. It was the childrens fault!!!!!! they were such brats...idiots...UGH!!! I don't see how he came to like them!!

nevin gave it a0:
Really bad.

d t gave it a0:
Incredibly poor, annoying.

Jazz gave it a7:
Fun family film.

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