Are we finally done?
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| German title | Are we finally done? |
| Original title | Are We Done Yet? |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Steve Carr |
| script | Hank Carnations |
| production | Matt Alvarez Todd Garner Ted Hartley Ice Cube |
| music | Teddy Castellucci |
| camera | Jack Green |
| cut | Craig P. Herring |
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Are we finally done? (Original title: Are We Done Yet? ) Is an American comedy film from 2007. It is the sequel to the film Are we there yet ? and is loosely based on Just For My Wife's Sake from 1948.
action
Suzanne and Nick got married and she moved in with Nick with her two children. His small apartment is just enough for all four. However, additional tenants are no longer allowed in. And just as fate would have it, Suzanne von Nick is pregnant with twins. Fortunately, Nick put some money aside when he sold his sports shop to run his own sports magazine. He's already found a publisher that wants to publish it, as long as the Magic Johnson cover story is finally up. Unfortunately, he doesn't really get to work at home, because the stepchildren are constantly bothering him. So the quick decision is made that a new place to stay is needed.
Fortunately, real estate agent Chuck Mitchell can offer a large property in the country. And since this house fulfills almost every wish at first glance, Nick buys it despite his wife's concerns. When the move is due, his two stepchildren in particular do not want to move and let themselves be torn from their familiar surroundings. If he had listened to his children, he might have been spared a lot of trouble, but he asserts his thick head and everyone moves. When the first damage to the house was already visible in the first few days, Nick called the only tradesman in town whose card he had received from Chuck and was surprised that it was Chuck himself who was apparently not just selling him a demolished house has, but is the only one who wants to take over the repair at horrendous prices. But Nick's thick skull refuses this deal and he sends Chuck from his country.
Nick then hires an unlicensed handyman to work for a fraction of the money and do the repairs. But the next day is Chuck, this time in the capacity of Baubeauftragten , before Nick's door and he just wants this land with a penalty. But Nick just manages to persuade Chuck not to punish him and hire him to renovate the house. And this is where the problems really start, because it is not only poor electrics, poor floors, outdated pipes, doors, windows and a dry rot that bother him, but above all Chuck himself and his sometimes really blind craftsmen. And that leads to a stress that doesn’t allow Nick in the slightest to write the cover story he needs for his own magazine, so that he runs the risk of not only losing his preliminary contract with the publisher, but also having to repay the advance payment.
In addition to the construction stress, Nick is also upset that Chuck can and knows almost everything. So this is not only a midwife , yoga teacher , couple therapist , animal trainer , building contractor , real estate agent , walker at the Goodwill Games , but also a former basketball player at the Los Angeles Lakers , who personally knows Magic Johnson, which annoys Nick particularly, because after all, Magic should be his Be the cover story. These and many other talents make Chuck appear particularly sympathetic with Nick's family, which is not particularly good for stressed Nick, which is why he decides with his thick head to fire everyone and to renovate the house himself. But then he did the math without his family, who stuck with Chuck and demonstratively also moved out of the house.
Only after Nick learns that Chuck lost his beloved wife a few years ago and is no longer the same, does he understand his over-the-top manner and apologize to him, with the request that he can finish the work. Chuck also apologizes to Nick and says that he asked his good friend Magic Johnson to make himself available for an interview for him. But before all of this can happen, Suzanne goes into labor and has to give birth to the twins at home . Unfortunately, everything happens so quickly that she cannot be brought to the hospital or a doctor can be fetched and only Chuck, as a trained midwife, can give birth to the two sons. All of this then leads Nick to make his peace with Chuck and his craftsmen and decide against another sports magazine and instead a new building renovation magazine with Magic Johnson and his twins as the cover story.
Reviews
The film received some devastating reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted only 7 positive out of 93 reviews, which corresponds to a value of 6%. However, the film was received with mixed to partially benevolent reactions, because at the same time 60% of 200,327 users rated the film positively. This in turn is refuted by the online film archive IMDb , another platform on which normal users can submit their film reviews, because there 7904 users agreed with the professional critics and gave the film a miserable 3.3 out of 10 possible points (as of May 15 2011).
Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times found the film to be an unwise sequel, which alludes as a weak parable to the fact that renovating one's own house can make better parents (“ill-advised sequel [...] and a feeble fable of better parenting through home improvement. "). She also cynically noted that she feared that Ice Cube's transformation from tough rapper to family-friendly entertainer, alluding to the title of the film, was far from complete. ("As for Ice Cube, his transformation from tough-talking rapper to family-friendly entertainer continues. Tempting as it is to inquire, 'Are we done yet?' I suspect the answer is no.")
Neil Smith sums up the criticism on bbc.co.uk as being an unnecessary sequel (“A wholly unncessary sequel”) that would definitely win a fictional prize for the most self-destructive title (“If they gave out awards for the year's most self-defeating title, Are We Done Yet? would be hard to beat. "). However, he also praised McGinley, who was the film's only trump card and saved him from total ruin ("McGinley [...] 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. ").
"Harmless family comedy based on a film from the 1940s with underdeveloped characters, a moderate level of humor and a single parade role: that of the bustling realtor and building contractor who drives the stressed house father to white heat."
“While at the beginning the arc of the supposedly comical is insistently overstretched, Carr and author Hank Nelken, whose contribution to“ Zickenterror ”belongs to the higher humor class compared to this film, gradually shift the accent and switch to the thick sentimentalities and moral lessons. (...) The " American way of life ", which often seems so attractive and seductive to us, not least because of the Hollywood films, is portrayed half-baked and exaggerated, as it is here unintentionally as a nightmare. "
“So it's amazing how such a vehicle was created from the really entertaining predecessor. If it weren't for the great (admittedly on the verge of overacting) John McGinley, are we finished? have to book a low rating for themselves. So he at least pulls the cart out of the mud, but that doesn't change much about the overall impression of this lousy film. "
production
- According to his own statement, the hardest part of the shoot for Ice Cube was the scene with the kayak, because he just couldn't control it and accordingly often fell over.
- Since John C. McGinley was still starring in the series Scrubs while the film was being shot, he was permanently traveling between Los Angeles and Vancouver , where the film was shot. By his own admission, he literally lived at Hollywood Burbank Airport .
- In contrast to the original by Myrna Loy, Nia Long's role was designed to be far less grumpy and quarrelsome, but deliberately designed as an optimistic, friendly and relaxed woman.
- To the criticism that he was now making family films as a former gangster rapper, Ice Cube replied that he didn't know any rapper who was inherently evil and wanted to rule the world. It's just frustration that often resonates in hip-hop. He himself doesn't know anyone who doesn't want a house, a wife and a few children.
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Awards
- Nomination as worst remake or cheapest copy of the Golden Raspberry in 2008
- Nominations for both Best Picture and Best Male Movie Star at the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards
publication
The film was released on April 4, 2007 in 2,877 theaters in the USA and grossed $ 14.2 million. A total of 58.3 million US dollars were raised, 49.6 of which in the United States alone. In Germany, the film opened on August 23, 2007 and attracted 23,632 people to the cinemas, which corresponds to box office earnings of approximately 116,000 US dollars. After the DVD was sold in Germany on January 10, 2008, the free TV premiere was on February 20, 2010 on ProSieben .
Web links
- Are we finally done? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Are we finally done? at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Are we finally done? in the German dubbing index
- Official English website
- Interview with Ice Cube
- Interview (English) with Nia Long
Individual evidence
- ↑ Are we finally done? from rottentomatoes.com , accessed May 15, 2011
- ↑ Jeannete Catsoulis: Hammer, Nails, Dry Rot and Do-It-Yourself Trouble on nytimes.com from April 4, 2007 ( English ), accessed on May 15, 2011
- ↑ Neil Smith: Are We Done Yet? (2007) on bbc.co.uk dated ( English ), accessed on May 15, 2011
- ↑ Are we finally done? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ filmstarts.de
- ↑ moviemaze.de
- ↑ a b Rebecca Murray: Ice Cube Discusses the Family Comedy Movie "Are We Done Yet?" ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on movies.about.com ( English ), accessed 15 May 2011
- ↑ Steven Bryan: Interview with actor, John C. McGinley, on the movie Are We Done Yet ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on helium.com (April 10, 2007 English ), accessed 15 May 2011
- ↑ Fred Topel: Nia Long Talks Are We Done Yet? on canmag.com (from April 9, 2007 English ), accessed April 15, 2011
- ↑ a b Are we finally done? from boxofficemojo.com , accessed May 15, 2011
- ↑ a b Are we finally done? at media-naunhof.de , accessed on May 15, 2011
- ↑ Are we finally done? from ofdb.de , accessed on May 15, 2011
