Feb 10 2006Are We Done Yet?
Ice Cube was set to play the lead in a remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and though the picture is still being made, it's now the sequel to Are We There Yet?, titled Are We Done Yet? In some of the most brilliant decision making I've ever witnessed, Revolution Studios realized the film would probably make more money as a sequel to the successful Ice Cube comedy. The story is essentially unchanged, except now the characters are from Are We There Yet? So all of you assholes who bet me that the Ice Cube remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House wouldn't have the characters changed to make it a sequel to Are We There Yet?-- you owe me five dollars.
Honestly, I just look at it like the line from Romeo and Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." Except replace the rose parts with "horrible Ice Cube movie."
Reader Comments
1. Burbanked - February 10, 2006 11:45 AM
I suppose these kinds of news items - where it feels like Hollywood's taking four creative steps backwards - shouldn't be surprising anymore.
But don't we, more than a little, miss the energy, the danger of the Boyz n the Hood Ice Cube? Should we now just give into the idea that every exciting person of creative talents will go the way-too-broad family comedy route? I blame you, Chevy Chase!
2. Sdvora - February 10, 2006 11:57 AM
Well, at least we know (for sure) now that it will be a piece of shit, and it's one step further removed from "Mr Blandings," a good movie that doesn't deserve the ignominy of an Ice Cube remake.
3. xAgonyxScenex - February 10, 2006 12:19 PM
This is why I hate Hollywood. Put a bunch of money int oa movie that is destiend to fail. Instead of giving money to small film makers and new projects.
4. jic - February 10, 2006 8:04 PM
Don't you mean it's a remake of the 1986 Tom Hanks comedy *The Money Pit*?