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4 April 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Are We Done Yet? is ostensibly a sequel to 2004's Are We There Yet? But in fact it's a remake of the 1948 comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, which starred Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. In this one, Ice Cube plays the Grant role, and critics warn that he's far from an improvement. "That a glowering sourpuss like Ice Cube should take a part once performed by the most engaging and mischievous of comedic players (Grant) is in itself depressing," writes Stephen Cole in the Toronto Globe & Mail. Moreover, Michael Phillips observes in the Chicago Tribune that Blandings had "a machine-tooled efficiency, and it didn't strain to please. Are We Done Yet? strains." But Bob Strauss of the Los Angeles Daily News suggests that the movie didn't strain hard enough: "There is only one fart joke and just a single butt-crack shot, so I guess you could say that the movie has a certain degree of class. But that just makes this kind of thing duller, too."

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