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Actors: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Are We There Yet? |
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Ice Cube plays Nick, an owner of a sports memorabilia store in Portland, Oregon. Jay Mohr plays his partner. One day, Nick sees a beautiful woman leaving the store across the street. She runs the business there. Nick wants to date her, but she isn't interested at the moment. However, he does worm his way into her good graces by giving her rides to and from work when her car breaks down. Eventually, she trusts him to bring her kids to her work location in Vancouver, British Columbia, when her ex can't take them. But these kids aren't too willing to cooperate. They are still hoping their mother will get back together with their father. So they have become huge brats. The girl is about nine, the boy about six. They start off flying, but due to one catastrophe after another, they miss the plane. Nick hopes to catch the train instead, but just as he gets on the train, the kids jump off in order to retrieve the cape from the boy's superhero doll. The train leaves without them and then Nick has to jump off it, leaving their bags behind. So they drive in Nick's brand new Lincoln Navigator, which the kids will totally destroy by the time they reach Vancouver. Though I thought the kids needed to be smacked a time or too, it was still an entertaining movie.
--BethG, Resident Scholar
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Rapper and actor Ice Cube shows off his softer side in this family-friendly comedy. Nick Persons (Ice Cube) is a dealer in sports collectibles who has fallen for beautiful executive Suzanne Kingston (Nia Long). However, Nick discovers he has a bigger task than just winning her over -- Suzanne is a divorced mother with two children, Lindsey (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Philip Daniel Bolden), and the kids don't believe any man besides their father is fit for their mother to date. Even though Nick doesn't care much for kids, he's eager to win Lindsey and Kevin over to score points with Suzanne, and so when business commitments threaten to strand Suzanne in Vancouver without her children for New Year's Eve, Nick volunteers to escort them. But when Nick is bumped from an airline flight due to a corkscrew in his pocket, he's forced to drive the kids to Canada, and Lindsey and Kevin see this as a golden opportunity to make life very difficult for Nick.
--Wendy Hubbard, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Kind of comedy
- taking care of zany kids
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
- Lot of humor, but significant serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
- trader
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average
- (man) muscular
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 80%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
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