Nick Persons, a player who owns a sporting goods store in Portland, Oregon, may have a completely quiet life. After a while, Nick meets Susan Kingston, a successful businesswoman, where Nick and Susan are friends. Susan asks Nick to lead her children, Kevin and Lindsay, to Vancouver, so Nick's quiet life turns into something of an unusual inconvenience, as Susan's request seems to change the course of events.
This somewhat schizophrenic comedy may be expressing Cube's own ambivalence about parting ways with his NWA inner bad boy and embracing fatherhood and all of its virtuous authority figure dimensions.
Denver Post
January 21, 2005
How much sweeter Nick's heart-to-heart with Lindsey and Kevin would be if the movie was more than a clichéd journey.
ColeSmithey.com
April 19, 2009
With one of the most hackneyed expressions in children-based comedy movies "Are We There Yet?" fulfills every low expectation that its urban target audience will bring to their cinema chairs.