Are We Done Yet? 2007

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: It's enjoyable for what it is, but without McGinley, it would've needed major remodeling. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Calling a sequel Are We Done Yet? is like calling it Enough Already. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Director Steve Carr continues his streak of numbingly mediocre family comedies. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It isn't gangsta, but it's winning all the same. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The problem with the new film is that Ice Cube is too cool for the plot's nonsense. The faulty house and McGinley's behavior never inspire him to blow his top. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: 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? Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: 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. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: Atrocious. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The new movie is good-natured and sometimes funny. It also doesn't make a lick of sense. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Careers 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. Read more

Bob Strauss, Dallas Morning News: An acknowledged remake of the old Cary Grant movie Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. As far as I could tell, that's because everyone involved was inspired by the syllable "Bland" in the title. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: For all his scowling bluster, Ice Cube long ago turned into a bit of a teddy bear. (Is this really the guy who rapped on N.W.A.'s 'Straight Outta Compton'?) Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Carr tries to put one over on us by tacking on a sentimental ending. But as any homeowner could have told him, you can't disguise a weak foundation with a cheap finish. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: If you've seen the brilliantly edited trailer, you've seen just about every single laugh in the movie. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Are We Done Yet? isn't funny or original enough to recommend. But it's amusing to watch Ice play straight-man to McGinley's perky, needy, too-helpful Chuck. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: The actors are all likable, the film moves at a brisk pace and there are even one or two jokes that appear to be original. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Teresa Budasi, Chicago Sun-Times: '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? Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Are We Done Yet? may be remarkable only for the fact that its star was ever once actually considered a threat to civic stability. If movies came any safer than this, they'd be given honourary police citations for keeping the peace. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: Let's just hope the kids find burping raccoons and crumbling ceilings hilarious. Read more

Stephen Garrett, Time Out: Even though the cinematic foundation of this cheap prefab fluff is a message of family togetherness, the building materials -- boneheaded behavior, overwrought conflict, treacly sentiment -- have classic dry rot. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: If only someone had thought to fix the script. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: The 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. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Following up on his execrable 2005 semi-hit Are We There Yet?, Ice Cube once again turns the world off with a scowl in Are We Done Yet? Read more