Are We Done Yet?
A confused man balanced at the top of a ladder, his wife and two children standing below. The film title in large red lettering at the bottom of the ladder.
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteve Carr
Screenplay byHank Nelken
Story byHank Nelken
Based onMr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
by Melvin Frank
Norman Panama
Characters
by Steven Gary Banks
Claudia Grazioso
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJack N. Green
Edited byCraig P. Herring
Music byTeddy Castellucci
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • April 4, 2007 (2007-04-04)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$28 million
Box office$58.4 million[1]

Are We Done Yet? is a 2007 American family comedy film directed by Steve Carr and starring Ice Cube.[2] The film is a remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, previously remade as the 1986 Tom Hanks comedy film The Money Pit, and a sequel to the 2005 film Are We There Yet? The screenplay is by Hank Nelken. It was produced by Revolution Studios and RKO Pictures and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The film was shot on location in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada, but is set in Newberg, Oregon, United States.

Plot

Two years after the events of the first film, Nick Persons has married Suzanne and moved her children, Kevin and Lindsey into his apartment and bought a Berger Picard pet dog and named it Coco. While getting ready for an interview with Magic Johnson to launch a sports magazine, Suzanne tries telling Nick that she is pregnant. Later, during breakfast, Suzanne tells Nick about buying a 3-bedroom apartment right from their neighbours. Suzanne then reveals her pregnancy and later finds out that they will be having twins.

Needing more space, they try to move to the country and meet Chuck Mitchell Jr., a charming but deceiving local real estate agent/contractor. After some persuasion Nick decides to buy the house & the family pack up their things and moves into the house. Lindsey is against the move because she is far away from her friends, has no cell phone reception, and because there are no cute boys. Unfortunately it turns out that Nick failed to get the house inspected first and everybody scolds him as they soon find a mould infestation. While trying to resolve the mould issue, Chuck discovers even more problems with the house, and Nick becomes angry with him as he almost destroys it trying to fix them all while also being scolded by Suzanne and the kids after Nick goes fishing.

Meanwhile, Lindsey, still wanting to be treated like an adult, falls in love with one of Chuck's employees, Danny Pulu, a young adult and the youngest of the Pulu family, who is as equally smitten with her. One night, Nick finds Lindsey's bedroom door wide open and suggests she's left the house, so he asks Kevin where she is and reveals that she went to a party at Danny's house. After finding her dancing with Danny, Nick grounds her while firing the Pulu brothers, causing her to be resentful enough that she ignores him the next day.

When Nick gets a voicemail about an executive trying to move on with his idea if he can't get Magic Nick finally decides to fire Chuck after he tells him that the house needs a whole new foundation during a yoga exercise where Suzanne scolds Nick for forgetting their practice from being busy working with the house. When Chuck reveals that he knew that there was more work to be done with the house, Nick tells Chuck to leave the house, which causes all those working on the house to quit out of loyalty to Chuck.

After everybody leaves Suzanne scolds Nick again and tells him that he'll need to hire Chuck back but Nick refuses and tries to sell the house again to move back to his Condo in the city. During their argument, Nick finally stands his ground and calls her out for her naivety while also yelling that he wouldn't be in this situation if it weren't for her and the kids. Needing some time to think, Suzanne then proclaims that she and the kids will be staying in the guest house until she cools down.

After taking some time to think, Nick decides to fix the house on his own after talking with Kevin while fishing. Lindsey apologises and promises to truly act mature from then on and also to apologize to Chuck, especially when he is told that his wife, a famous country singer, died a few years ago. Chuck responds by bringing his friends back to help including Kevin, Lindsey, and Danny, whose brothers force to apologise about the party.

After finishing the house Nick tries to apologise however Suzanne is in the middle of having contractions and starts going into labour. The family tries to go to the hospital but since the hospital is half an hour away and the babies are coming quickly, Nick, Kevin, and Lindsey have to deliver the babies. Chuck tries to get there, but his truck breaks down and he is forced to power walk down to the house. While she's still in labour, Nick gets a call from Magic Johnson. After Suzanne gives birth to identical twin boys, the movie ends six months later with a big BBQ in their backyard, at which Nick debuts his new magazine titled Are We Done Yet?, based on his experience building the house.

Cast

Production

The film is a remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and produced by Ted Hartley of RKO Pictures.[3]

Release

The film made $58.4 million worldwide.[1] The film was released in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2007, and opened on #3, behind Oceans Thirteen and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.[4]

Reception

Like its predecessor, Are We Done Yet? was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 8% based on 92 reviews, and has an average rating of 2.81/10. The site's consensus reads: "Are We Done Yet? plays it way too safe with generic slapstick and uninspired domestic foibles."[5] On Metacritic, the film has a higher score than its predecessor's, at 36 out of 100, based on 21 reviews, meaning "generally unfavorable reviews."[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[7]

Neil Smith for BBC.com gave the film 1 out of 5 stars and wrote: "McGinley, as it happens, is the film's only trump card, his madcap multi tasker stealing every scene he's in and leaving the movie's nominal star for dead."[8] In one of the few positive reviews, Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club gave the film a grade B, and praises McGinley and calls Ice Cube's performance "strangely charming". Rabin concludes: "It isn't gangsta, but it's winning all the same."[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Are We Done Yet? (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Schager, Nick (March 29, 2007). "Are We Done Yet?". Slant Magazine. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ Fleming, Michael (9 February 2006). "Cube's 'House' renovated". Variety.
  4. ↑ "Weekend box office 8th June 2007 - 10th June 2007". www.25thframe.co.uk. Archived from the original on January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Are We Done Yet? (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Are We Done Yet? Reviews". Metacritic. April 3, 2007. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  8. ↑ Neil Smith (Jun 6, 2007). "BBC - Movies - review - Are We Done Yet?". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on November 30, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ Rabin, Nathan (April 7, 2007). "Are We Done Yet?". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on August 25, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
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