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Reviews Counted:91
Fresh:7
Rotten:84
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Are We Done Yet? plays it way too safe with generic slapstick and uninspired domestic foibles.
Theatrical Release:Apr 4, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $49,631,958
Synopsis: Rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube reprises his role as the Everyman-sports-fanatic Nick Persons of the road-trip slapstick comedy ARE WE THERE YET? (2005), evolving from bachelorhood to domesticated... [More]
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?
Top CriticThe kids come off like little spokesmodels, or aliens, and if not for Long's implausibly patient but good-natured Suzanne, there wouldn't be a recognizably human character in the film.
Top CriticDespite his trademark scowl, Cube can't keep himself from looking sheepish. That's where the title comes in.
Ice Cube's do-it-yourself sequel is too formulaic.
The plot follows an inevitable path of life lessons and forgiving hugs...
Like its predecessor, Are We Done Yet? is amiable enough, but not enough to make it compelling.
Nothing is very funny in this movie, and everything is predictable.
Are We Done Yet? isn't much more than a middling middle-class fantasy, but it has a few sweet admonitions nestled amid the tomfoolery.
Top CriticAs unfortunate titles for cynically commercial sequels go, this one's a doozy
'I can fix that,' Nick says each time a new problem arises in the house. How are we supposed to believe that when the filmmakers couldn't fix this poorly constructed sequel from its prefab origins?
Top CriticDull at best, painfully unfunny at worst, let's hope the answer to Are We Done Yet? is in the affirmative.
Ostensibly, the message...is the difference between an expensive house and a priceless home, but since the message is taught by a greedy psychopath, it rings a bit hollow.
The rapper Ice Cube returns to the multiplex with Are We Done Yet? a feeble fable of better parenting through home improvement.
Top CriticCareers are funny, unpredictable things, and Ice Cube wouldn't be the first charismatic, threatening entertainer to don a chastity belt for a safe ride in Hollywood. Think Elvis Presley or Eddie Murphy.
Top CriticWell, it's not as mean-spirited as its predecessor.
This is the kind of movie that gives family films a bad name.
Top CriticMediocre from foundation to roof, this sequel to 2005's tepid road trip farce Are We There Yet? is the movie equivalent of a tear-down.
Top CriticAn excuse for indifferently executed slapstick involving Ice Cube, who contributes little more than a series of snarls and scowls to the proceedings.
Puerile prop gags slapped in without development, an inane score, dud reactions, Steve Carr's dismal direction, a Magic Johnson phone-in cameo -- it adds up to the question that keeps arising, which is (yep) the title.
Fans of the first film can rest assured that a change in the director’s chair -- Dr. Dolittle 2 auteur Steve Carr taking over for the presumably indisposed Brian Levant -- has done little to curb the overall tone of slapstick desperation.
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