Are We There Yet?

Nick Persons (Ice Cube) owns a sports memorabilia shop in Portland, Oregon. He has also taken delivery of a customised Lincoln Navigator. Nick is a player who likes beautiful women but hates kids.

When Nick meets the Suzanne (Nia Long) a business executive separated from her husband. He has to deal with her two young kids who wreck any new relationship their mother gets involved in hoping she will get back with their father.

When business commitments leaves Suzanne stranded in Vancouver. Nick Volunteers to bring the children to her. However after lots of shenanigans, Nick has to drive them to Vancouver.

Are We There Yet? is a mildly amusing film with Home Alone lite slapstick. The kids are annoying as hell, no wonder their dad shacked up with a new family of his own.

It is a shame the director never realised how awful the kids were with their pranks. It makes the film look mean spirited.

(38%) A borderline acceptable family comedy that follows a small business owner "ice cube", a man who must deal drugs or something on the side because he never wears the same clothes twice, and his big ugly car is covered in more jewellery than than Mr T, but because this is a kids film that aspect of his life is never looked into. And I can only guess that he samples some of his product as he hallucinates quite badly from time to time with a nodding toy bursting into life, but yet again, we never see him shoot up. The plot is tried and tested, "Planes, trains and automobiles" type of thing, and everything goes along at a decent pace, just don't expect any of cube's explicit raps on the soundtrack, or to laugh too much, and this might just pass the time better than expected.

This may not be an Academy Award winning movie, but it was entertaining the whole way through. It was light hearted, funny (with some slap-stick and occasional rude humor) and moving at times. I thought it was cleaver how Nick's conscience was portrayed through a Satchel Paige bobble-head. This movie appealed to all ages. There were some surprise guest appearances, namely Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura from Star Trek) and Tracy Morgan as the voice of Satchel Paige. This movie was similar in style to Christmas With The Kranks only this one was actually funny and you care about the characters. If you are looking to be entertained and fun for the whole family ...then this movie is for you.

"Are We There Yet?" is a cheesy, well-intentioned family comedy. The film will almost certainly wreck it in a minute or two with some stupid notion gone wrong. The lengthy use of a bobblehead is a fairly realistic representation of how the film fails.

I've been made fun of for enjoying Are We There Yet which is unfortunate! Despite the flaws this movie has it warms my heart. Ice Cube is great through out and so are the kids. Not for everyone but I love this movie the way it is! Adventure stories are great to me even the unorthodox ones at least occasionally.