- 64 Pages
- Includes journal for trip tracking
- Answer key included
Ice Cube portrays a successful bachelor whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to take the children of the single mother he is wooing (Nia Long) from Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver on New Year's Eve. Extras include making-of featurette, games, guIce Cube has turned his frown upside down with the family-friendly screwball road movie
Are We There Yet? We know the actor/rapper can use his trademark scowl to be funny (the
Friday and
Barbershop series), or to be mean (
Boyz in the Hood)--but can he use it to melt kids' hearts? That's the question
Are We There Yet? answers with a resounding yes for youngsters in the audience (which will be the lions' share), but it'll probably be an emphatic shrug for the grownups. The contrived plot has Cube playing a wannabe-player (as in lad! ies' man) and ex-player (as in washed-up minor league baseball star) who now owns a sports memorabilia business. His partner, played by Jay Mohr is just a throwaway, as is the talented Nia Long, the single mom that Cube sets his blinged-out sights on. To try to get in her good graces, he offers to transport her two bratty kids in his pride-and-joy Lincoln Navigator for a joy ride to a distant city where she's attending an emergency business meeting so they can have a New Year's Eve celebration together. This kiddies version of
Road Trip and
Planes, Trains and Automobiles has its cute moments, but plenty more gross-out moments which will please the kids no end, especially as the Navigator gets more and more trashed. Suffice it to say they all learn about each others' good sides and hearts are suitably melted all around--until after the credits roll, then you'll probably forget about the whole thing.
--Ted FryLighthearted comedy with Ice Cube as a man whos! e plan to romance beautiful divorced mother-of-two Nia Long is! stalled by his aversion to children. With Long stuck in Vancouver on business, Cube volunteers to drive the kids there so they can spend New Year's Eve together. But he gets more than he bargained for as the road trip is wrought with the brats' hilariously relentless attempts to scare him off and keep their mom single. Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden co-star. 95 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Thai; "making of" documentary; storyboards; audio commentary; deleted scene.Ice Cube has turned his frown upside down with the family-friendly screwball road movie
Are We There Yet? We know the actor/rapper can use his trademark scowl to be funny (the
Friday and
Barbershop series), or to be mean (
Boyz in the Hood)--but can he use it to melt kids' hearts? That's the question
Are We There Yet? answers with a resounding yes for youngsters in the audience! (which will be the lions' share), but it'll probably be an emphatic shrug for the grownups. The contrived plot has Cube playing a wannabe-player (as in ladies' man) and ex-player (as in washed-up minor league baseball star) who now owns a sports memorabilia business. His partner, played by Jay Mohr is just a throwaway, as is the talented Nia Long, the single mom that Cube sets his blinged-out sights on. To try to get in her good graces, he offers to transport her two bratty kids in his pride-and-joy Lincoln Navigator for a joy ride to a distant city where she's attending an emergency business meeting so they can have a New Year's Eve celebration together. This kiddies version of
Road Trip and
Planes, Trains and Automobiles has its cute moments, but plenty more gross-out moments which will please the kids no end, especially as the Navigator gets more and more trashed. Suffice it to say they all learn about each others' good sides and hearts are suitably melted! all around--until after the credits roll, then you'll probabl! y forget about the whole thing.
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Author: Karen^Rand McNally Richards
Illustrator: Steven Mach
Publisher:Rand McNally & Company
Published Date:04/01/2003
Format:Paperback
ISBN:0528965433
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