![]() ![]() AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, the opportunity to mutter, “You should know not to mess with a man’s nuts.” I can’t tell you how painful it is. A showdown with a raccoon who steals his Corn Nuts grants Ice Cube, Mr. Promising Suzanne that he can “do the fixing,” he proceeds to run into walls, break windows, fall off ladders, and get electrocuted. ![]() Moved to joyful tears on finding that the master bathroom features a private room for the toilet, Nick ignores the faulty weather-vane and doorknobs, as well as the facts that the house is “a little high-priced” and Chuck is “A little weird,” and plunks down his money. McGinley), the place offers up all kinds of clues about its disrepair (or, as Chuck puts it, its need for “just a scooterino of work”). Shown by the excessively smiley real estate agent and part-time midwife Chuck (John C. Here, as soon as Lindsay complains about the lack of cell phone reception, they buy the first house they see. Instead, Nick and Suzanne haul the kids and their dog out of town with a trailer hitched to his Escalade. The Magic interview is crucial, as it’s generated start-up money from a plot device of a company, so Nick needs to focus. For another thing, Nick’s on a deadline to interview Magic Johnson for his latest business venture, a sports magazine (thoughtfully titled All About Sports), which he apparently plans to edit and publish from home. Hard to believe, but this may be the film’s comic highlight, cribbed almost play for play from Blandings (though their crowdedness occurs in the bathroom, while brushing teeth).įor one thing, Suzanne is pregnant with twins. Thus you are treated to the requisite fight over the bathroom (14-year-old Lindsay needs extra time to put on her makeup, though she’s apparently able to change from nightclothes to school outfit in about five seconds), foodstuffs falling out of cupboards, and Kevin’s bumping into Nick, resulting in spilled cereal all over his sports jersey. Picking up after Nick Persons’ (Cube) marriage to Suzanne (Nia Long), Are We Done Yet? shows the wannabe happy unit, including her kids Lindsay (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Philip Bolden), crowded into his one-bedroom apartment. In the case of Ice Cube, the gags - outsized, tedious, and almost always predictable - miss their marks, if, indeed, they have any. In the case of Cary Grant, such shenanigans turned on the contrast between his and costar Myrna Loy’s elegant affects and the oppressively practical house-making details in which they become mired. On the surface, the films show plot similarities: a citified husband buys a “fixer-upper” out in the country, whereupon all his efforts turn upside down. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseĪre We Done Yet? is “too blue.” A clunky, wrongheaded movie in every way, this sequel to the dreary kids-on-a-road-trip flick, Are We There Yet?, proclaims a (remote) connection to Mr. But don’t let whoever does it get it too blue. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow. But not as yellow-green as daffodil buds.
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