Lindsey and Kevin Kingston greatly adore their divorced father, Frank, and made it their mission to chase away their mother, Suzanne's, boyfriends until their parents reunite. Dirty Old Woman: Miss Mable, who tries to make moves on Nick when Suzanne isn't around.Cool Car: Nick had it going since the beginning, but it went through so much trauma.Nick also has his bobble head Satch but the bobblehead is (to him) alive and acts as a conscience. It's because he keeps his asthma inhaler in the figure's leg. Companion Cube: Kevin's Galaktico figure to the point where he refuses to leave the ignited car without finding it.Child Hater: Basically Nick's defining character trait, and for good reasons too!.Butt-Monkey: The series, particularly the sequel, refuses to go one minute without tormenting Nick.Broken Pedestal: It's safe to say that Lindsey and Kevin don't hold their father in such high esteem anymore after discovering he abandoned them to start a new family with another woman and just made a flimsy excuse of being sick so as to cut them and their mother out of his new life.This trope applies as the first movie was centered around his original car being destroyed by the kids. Brick Joke: At the end of the second movie, a ladder falls on to the front of Nick's car, smashing the windscreen to bits.Break the Haughty: While they didn't deserve the heartbreak they got when they found out their father is remarried with another child, Lindsey and Kevin learn to stop behaving like brats towards Nick.Bratty Half-Pint: Lindsey and Kevin, especially in the first movie.Lindsey and Kevin eventually come to terms with the fact that their father does not want them in his life and learn to accept Nick as their new father figure. When Nick finds out, he reveals how his own father abandoned him while comforting the two. Bonding over Missing Parents: When Lindsey and Kevin see through a window that their father is not sick, and with a woman and infant implied to be his new wife and child, they realize that he was lying so he does not have to see them.Big Damn Kiss: Between Nick and Suzanne at the end of the first film.Bait-and-Switch: Oh, no! Nick's getting run over! Oh, wait, just the twin motorcycle fakeout.Babies Ever After: Nick and Suzanne have twins in the sequel.After they reach Vancouver, Kevin has an asthma attack while at the ice rink and Nick saves him by administering his inhaler, eventually proving to Suzanne that Nick really cares for her kids. Asthma Peril: Kevin has asthma and keeps his inhaler inside a large superhero action figure.Ascended Extra: Suzanne has a lot more screen time in the sequel.By the next scene, they've finally given up on him and their hopes of their parents reconciling, and realized that they wasted all their time driving away their mother's boyfriends for an impossible goal. They finally ditch him and arrive at their father's house, where they discover he was lying about being sick and is in fact remarried with a new baby, not even noticing the two outside his window watching in. Despite it being clear she doesn't want anything to do with him anymore, they're determined to make their goal a reality and give Nick nothing but trouble even when he's trying his best to get along with them. All for Nothing: Lindsey and Kevin's bratty, troublemaking behavior is because the two want to keep all men away from their mother in the hopes that she and their father can reconcile.It eventually ends with the car exploding completely. The Alleged Car: Nick's Navigator takes so much abuse throughout the entirety of the first film.Cube is a producer to the series, and has a role as Suzanne's brother. His wife Suzanne's (played by Essence Atkins) bossiness and stubborn manner provides the greatest source of conflict within the show. The show has Nick (now played by Terry Crews) as a successful sports talk show host with the kids' bad behavior significantly toned down. The film was followed up by a sequel Are We Done Yet?, where he and the family move to a new house in desperate need of repair, and spun-off a TV series also named Are We There Yet?, set in a different continuity and with different actors. Throughout the trip, Nick and the kids clash repeatedly, but end up bonding. But her two kids do not like Nick and purposefully sabotage their trip in order to split Nick and Suzanne apart. Suzanne has to go to a business meeting in Vancouver and asks Nick to bring her kids. What could possibly go wrong?Īre We There Yet? is a 2005 comedy film about Nick Persons ( Ice Cube), a swinging bachelor who falls for Suzanne ( Nia Long), a beautiful businesswoman and divorced mother with 2 bratty kids, Lindsey and Kevin.
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