Are We Done Yet? (2007)

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I don't what y'all say about these two movies. I love them and so does my brother.

We all know their problems of DIY, the new foundations, the leaking pipes, the collapsing roof. I'm sure we've all experienced to one degree or another in our life. This is what Ice Cube's sequel to Are We There Yet? sets out to display, with fun and slapstick PG comedy packed in to it. However, I don't think I've seen a film so frequently unfunny.Are We Done Yet? (AWDY?)tells the story of Ice Cube as he buys a new house for his family, who are expecting another member soon. So, he buys a house, and guess what? Unknowing to Mr. Cube their dream house is a mess, falling apart and has termites scuttling around in every room. The following 90 minutes consist of Ice Cube running around and falling in holes in floorboards. I'm afraid to say that I didn't laugh once, and I was in a mood for comedy. AWDY was so relentlessly laugh-less that I was despairing as the film barely crawls along, tediously moving from one predictable slapstick moment to the next. Ice Cube is so bland and wet he has no screen presence or power, he is an annoying fly moaning and shouting in your ear. As for the talented comic John Christopher McGinley from Scrubs, he consistently fails to hold the screen for barely an hour, and is more annoying than quirky, a sad and badly misted reflection of his Scrubs character.I judge comedy on whether I laugh. The Wikipedia definition of comedy reads: 'Comedy has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy).' I'm afraid I was never at any point entertained, and I forgot the existence of my funny bone. A successfully direction-less and unhilarious slapstick joke stretched out to 90 minutes.

Holy crap, I hope so, because I can't stand to watch another one of these horrible films. Let me start off with my grisly story of how I watched this film. I got it as a Christmas present from a family member. She said I knew I liked the first one, which she was wrong, so she went ahead and got me the sequel. I made a fake smile, and before I put it away for life, she suggested we watched it. My heart was pounding out of my chest, for I knew I could not escape! I hated the first one and even though I am willing to give any film a chance, I was not anywhere near excited.Well, we started it up, and pretty soon we were all sitting down watching it. Here's a clue as to what my families thoughts on it were: The family member apologized for buying it for me, my brother fell asleep, and my mom sat there with a disgusted look on her face. Even my eight year old cousin and five year old nephew did not laugh! I still can not believe that this is the filth that caused the wonderful movie Grindhouse to bomb, and I will hate this film until the very day I die for that, and I feel tremendously sorry for anyone who decides to watch it. It's just as poor as everything is in the first. Lame jokes, lame acting and lame plot.If another film is made I assume it will be titled, "We're Not Done Yet, Sorry".

When will the entertainment industry learn to stop remaking successful (or even unsuccessful) classics? Can't anyone come up with something new or original, or even a decent twist to an already existing storyline? I think the whole Fish Out of Water concept did not work at all with this movie, what with the City Folks moving to the country and all the horrible things, like bats, there for some slapstick comedy to add some action to the movie. Note to whoever paid to have this movie made: It did not work. And the entire premise that a "smart" business person who obviously is spending a lot of money to buy a house on a large parcel of land would choose to not pay to have the house inspected, well, what can one say about this concept, other that it tells the audience that the rest of the movie is going to just get worse? Not that this movie was all that close to the original it was trying to copy, since the house was already built. The house just needed a lot of work to make it habitable, and thus our plot of the hapless and idiotic father who slams his thumb with a hammer, falls through roofs, has a run-in with electricity, and of course, the weird, but has a heart of gold, contractor. And then there is the scene where our main character is out showing his step-kids nature and they come across a deer. Everyone, including the deer, are scared and go running off, screaming the entire time. Same as the audience would be my guess.