Uhura, doing here as a lusty old babysitter who farts in her sleep and promises Nick “a guided tour of Sin City”!?)īut it isn’t all innuendo, slapstick humor and physical abuse. (For that matter, what is Nichelle Nichols, aka Star Trek’s Lt. And sometimes the gags just seem inappropriate for a “family film”, particularly when both Nick and his talking Satchel Paige bobblehead doll (voice of Tracy Morgan) - don’t ask - make admiring remarks about Suzanne’s breasts. Sometimes it’s just painful as Home Alone proved so many years ago, children like nothing more than to see a man get hit in the groin, and this film does aim to please.
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Sometimes the lowbrow approach works, as when Lindsey and Kevin set up a series of elaborate booby traps to ward off the men who would dare to come knocking on their mother’s door. Still, personality only goes so far, and Are We There Yet? is more interested in crass humor than in creating remotely believable characters that we might actually care about. Likewise, Aleisha Allen and Philip Bolden are amusing as Lindsey and Kevin, the children who bedevil Nick and drive him to distraction while he drives them to Vancouver to meet their mother.
His character, Nick Persons, still has a bit of gangsta in him, and his attraction to Suzanne Kingston (Nia Long), the divorced mother he tries to impress, is primarily sexual, but Ice Cube has that easygoing movie-star quality that lets you know there is nothing to worry about Nick’s got a heart of gold. However R-rated the bulk of his films might be, Ice Cube has in recent years been moving towards the family-friendly mainstream, first with the PG-13 Barbershop movies - in which he plays a married father who is profoundly aware of the legacy he has inherited from his own old man - and now with this, his first solid PG effort. It helps, at least, that the stars have a fair bit of charisma. Perhaps this suggests a lack of confidence on the studio’s part? Second, the film is set, for the most part, on New Year’s Eve, and may have been intended for the holidays - but the studio didn’t release it until three weeks later, when box–office competition is pretty soft. In other words, the movie - which now stars rapper-turned-filmmaker Ice Cube as a playboy bachelor who hates kids but gives two precocious little tykes a ride just to impress their mother - is a hand-me-down, a film that failed to meet Sandler’s own not-so-high standards. First, the film was originally developed as a vehicle, so to speak, for Adam Sandler, who ultimately passed on the project. There are two things potential audience members need to know about Are We There Yet?.
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