Are We Done Yet? (2007)
Directed by Steve Carr
No — Are We Done Yet? is not woke, scoring 6 out of 100 on our wokeness meter.
The sequel to Are We There Yet?
Consciousness Markers
A mainstream 2007 family comedy headlined by a Black lead (Ice Cube) and Black co-lead (Nia Long), but the casting is presented as unremarkable and carries no commentary on representation.
No LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or subtext of any kind.
Suzanne functions as a conventional wife and expectant mother; the domestic conflict is played for slapstick, not gender critique.
The film is entirely colorblind in its storytelling and engages no racial themes or commentary.
No environmental or climate content whatsoever.
Real estate and contractor foibles are mined for comedy, not for any critique of wealth or capitalism.
No body-image or body-positivity themes present.
No neurodivergent characters or themes; Chuck's eccentricity is broad comic quirk, not a depiction of neurodivergence.
No historical subject matter to revise.
A broad slapstick family comedy that preaches nothing; it plays it safe rather than delivering any message.
Why it received this score
The sequel to Are We There Yet? arrives with the confidence of a film that knows exactly how little it intends to say. Steve Carr directs Ice Cube through a suburban fixer-upper comedy that doubles as a loose remake of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and the borrowing is generous, since the 1948 original already supplied the mold, the contractor, and the collapsing foundation. The new version adds a Cadillac Escalade, a Berger Picard, and a great deal of shouting.
The Persons family is Black, and the film treats this as a fact of no consequence, which is its own quiet achievement. Ice Cube and Nia Long anchor the proceedings with the easy chemistry of people who have done this before, and the script never asks them to explain themselves, to educate anyone, or to carry the weight of a demographic. Representation here is a matter of payroll, not of argument. Suzanne is a wife and an expectant mother who scolds her husband about yoga and insists he rehire the contractor. The domestic friction is staged for pratfalls, not for any reckoning with gender roles.
Chuck Mitchell Jr., played by John C. McGinley with a manic energy the rest of the film cannot match, is eccentric in the manner of a cartoon, and the movie never mistakes his oddity for a condition to be diagnosed or celebrated. The house gets fixed. The twins arrive. The magazine launches. Nothing is preached, nothing is interrogated, and the real estate market escapes without a scratch. Critics were unkind, audiences shrugged, and the whole enterprise now sits on the shelf as a document of a moment when a family comedy could simply be a family comedy. It is not a failure of conscience. It is an absence of one.
Analysis generated by our Consciousness Algorithm
Synopsis
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
Questions about Are We Done Yet?
Is Are We Done Yet? woke?
No — Are We Done Yet? is not woke, scoring 6 out of 100 on our wokeness meter. That earns it a verdict of Ultra Based.
Does Are We Done Yet? have any woke elements?
Very few. None of the 10 markers reaches 30, the level where a marker counts as present; the highest is Representation Casting at 15.
How does Are We Done Yet? compare to other 2007 movies?
It ranks #115 of the 201 films from 2007 we've scored; their average is 12. The wokest is Like Stars on Earth (92).
How is the Woke Score calculated?
An AI-assisted process researches the film and its reception, scores it 0–100 on ten markers, then combines those into one 0–100 Woke Score. It measures a specific set of 2020s cultural themes, not film quality.