Are We There Yet?
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Movie Reviews of Are We There Yet?
Movie Review: Are We There Yet.
Summary: 5 Stars
Saw this movie on starz and loved it.Rated PG for language and rude humor.Canada:PG.Good for anyone.Movie Review: Great Family Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great to sit down as a family and watch. It is rare a movie like that comes around.Movie Review: Are We Thwere Yet
Summary: 5 Stars
Good fu and a great vehicle for Ice Cube to use his considerable acting skills.Movie Review: "Do you have any Justin Timberlake or Clay Aiken?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Are We There Yet? is a fun road movie replete with cute jokes and juvenile slapstick humor. It's somewhat reminiscent of Home Alone, in terms of its over the top, tailored-for-kids sensibilities and its holiday setting. It offers two precocious kids Lindsey (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Philip Bolden), both of whom still harbor a hope of reconciliation between their divorced parents. They don't want any new guy to come in between, and, thus, they gleefully put Ice Cube thru his paces. You know what you're in for when you see urine and vomit spewage incorporated into the picture. But in the end, like all movies of this ilk, it's all sweetness and light and good family tidings.
It's the Christmas season and Nick Persons (Ice Cube), owner of a cute store (or, as he insists on calling it: "a fine sports collectible" store), had just purchased his dream ride, a tricked-out Lincoln Navigator (with way cool dubs). Jay Mohr's character calls it "6000 tons of respect." Now equipped with all the bling-age he needs, he is ready to play. But, on that same day, he sees and is instantly smitten with Suzanne Kingston (Nia Long), a single mother of two. But Suzanne doesn't want a romantic entanglement because Nick hasn't even bothered to ask about her kids and probably doesn't even know their names ("Theo and Rudy?" Nick ventures a guess). So Nick finds himself languishing in the "friend zone" and is ridiculed by his homies.
To make things worse, he gets stuck having to drive the bratty kids from Portland all the way to Vancouver to hook them up with their mom for New Year's. When his attempts to fly and then take the train go awry, he ends up driving the kids in his cherished Navigator, which starts out in pristine condition and ends up totally wrecked. In their travels, the three make pit stops to meet misguided good-samaritan truckers, a crazed deer and combative snowmen. But, no worries. Nick the Quick will somehow come thru for Suzanne with the kids intact, even if you can't say the same for his ride.
Ice Cube once again ventures into the wacky comedy genre and acquits himself very well. Over the years, Cube has been doing good film work and has snuck up on me as an actor. Nowadays, I think of him more in cinematic terms than from a music standpoint. Here he perfectly balances his wacky antics, good physical comedy work, and even some sensitive dramatic moments, while still remaining quinessentially Cube. This movie would've been better served with more screen time for Nia Long, who is cute but underused. The kids are pretty good, once they grew on me (I found them initially annoying and unlikable; Cube's character is a saint!). Jay Mohr's in there fleetingly and Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek's Uhura) cameos as the freaky Miss Mable.
All in all, everything works with the possible exception of Nick's advice-happy Satchel Page bobblehead doll, of which gimmick I feel is unnecessary. So if you're looking for a pretty decent family flick the kids will like, this is the one. The humor here is definitely more up the kids' alley, with the adults perhaps rolling their eyes at all the crazy shenanigans. Three and a half stars, and a big YAY-YAY for Cube!
Movie Review: ...cute and tolerable
Summary: 4 Stars
Ice Cube has really evolved from being the most brutal member of gangsta rap group NWA, to a brutal actor and, now, to a light and funny man. Who knew?
Since his rise to fame as an actor with Boys N The Hood in 1989, Cube has been in hit movies like Friday and The Barbershop and duds like Torque and XXX 2: The Next Level.
Are We There Yet is his latest lightfare road comedy about a man named Nick who wants to prove to the woman, played by Nia Long, he's interested in that he can handle responsibilities by taking her two snot-nosed kids from Oregon to Toronto where she is conducting business just in time to celebrate New Year's with her in his brand new Navigator. The kids do almost everything annoying and disgusting that you can think of: throwing up in the car, locking Nick out and taking the car for a wild spin, and setting Nick's pride and joy on fire!
The film is cute and tolerable considering that it borrows its ideas from past road comedies like Vacation, Planes Trains And Automobiles, and Road Trip. However, kids and even grown ups will laugh at how silly Ice Cube can really be!
Recommended
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