圓滑的經營者尼克正準備追求一位年輕而有魅力的離異女性蘇珊娜。然而問題在於蘇珊娜由於工作無法抽身,獨自待在溫哥華,她非常想念家中的兩個孩子以至於整日眉頭不展。為了能與蘇珊娜有更進一步的發展,Nick殷勤地提出願意為她達成願望——前往遠在美國奧勒岡的波特蘭將7歲的凱文以及11歲的琳賽接來與他們的母親團聚。
英文名:Are We There Yet?
別名:我們到了沒?
時間:2005年01月21日
類型:浪漫 喜劇
片長:95 Min
導演:布賴恩•萊溫特Brian Levant
演員:艾斯•庫柏 Ice Cube
尼婭•朗 Nia Long
艾裏莎•艾倫 Aleisha Allen
菲力浦•鮑登 Philip Bolden
傑伊•摩爾 Jay Mohr
M•C•金內 M.C. Gainey 地區:美國,語言:英語,字幕:英文
劇情簡介:
圓滑的經營者尼克正準備追求一位年輕而有魅力的離異女性蘇珊娜。然而問題在於蘇珊娜由於工作無法抽身,獨自待在溫哥華,她非常想念家中的兩個孩子以至於整日眉頭不展。為了能與蘇珊娜有更進一步的發展,Nick殷勤地提出願意為她達成願望——前往遠在美國奧勒岡的波特蘭將7歲的凱文以及11歲的琳賽接來與他們的母親團聚。
但讓尼克始料不及的是,蘇珊娜的兩個孩子認為沒有一個男人配得上自己的母親,於是一路上想盡各種辦法整治尼克。 一段噩夢般的旅程即將開始,讓我們系好安全帶,跟隨Nick上路吧。
女人真是麻煩,有孩子的單身女人更是煩上加煩……不過尼克(艾斯•庫伯飾)可不在乎這些,對於他來說,女人只是附屬品,追到手就算大功告成,根本無需費心去經營什麼感情,如今,尼克的最新目標是單身媽媽蘇珊娜(尼爾•朗飾)。可能因為經歷過一次失敗的婚姻,蘇珊娜對男人小心翼翼、步步為營,惟恐行差踏錯–尼克使盡了渾身解數,也無法除她心底的那道防線。新年將至,尼克卻發現蘇珊娜的臉上絲毫沒有過節的喜悅,反而日漸愁苦,原來蘇珊娜的一對兒女都在紐約,可是為了工作,新年期間她必須留在溫哥華加班,分居兩地的生活讓她備受相思之苦。腦筋靈活的尼克馬上察覺這是自己大獻殷勤的好機會,便自告奮勇開車將她的兩個孩子–11歲的琳賽(艾麗莎•艾倫飾)和7歲的凱文(菲力浦•丹尼爾•波頓飾)接到溫哥華來過新年。然而,令尼克想像不到的是,蘇珊娜的兩個孩子不但古靈精怪,還有少許偏執,痛恨所有和媽媽約會的男人,他們決定在去溫哥華的路上想盡一切辦法讓尼克別再打媽媽的主意。
有色人種在美國社區裏一直受到或公開或隱蔽歧視,其中又以黑色人種為最,即使是像哈莉•貝瑞這樣的美女級人物,在她捧得小金人之時也坦言,在現今這種人人平等的社會風氣下,自己仍然會受到或多或少的不公平待遇,所以能夠得到奧斯卡影后,她一定要付出比別人更多的努力才行。前兩天金球獎上傑米•福克斯的加冕,更加驗證了美國黑人社區已經壯大的事實,他們所代表的文化也已經在好萊塢佔有越來越大的比重,近期層出不窮以黑人為主角的影片就是再明白不過的事實證明,《我們到了沒?》也是其中之一。
說實話,“唱而優則演”的黑人饒舌歌手艾斯•庫伯當初是下了很大的決心才接下“尼克”這個角色的,因為他要展現以前從未涉足過的感情層面–父愛,而且他還必須“作踐”自己以獲得更多的笑料,片場中最有意思的部分就是編劇們總是聚在一起想盡一切辦法“羞辱”庫伯作為男人的尊嚴,而庫伯還要在旁邊出謀劃策幫助他們想出更好的辦法……為了拍攝一組嘔吐的場景,庫伯要吃完東西再強迫自己吐出來,如果一遍不成,還要重複,這簡直就是在挑戰身體的極限。雖然影片被定位在“家庭公路喜劇”,但導演布賴恩•萊溫特出於“惡搞”的考量,加入了一些動作元素–當然,相較於那些以動作為主的大製作,這不過是毛毛雨,但如果要演員親身上陣,似乎就沒那麼有趣了。在一組“飛身上馬”的鏡頭裏,需要庫伯像一名真正的運動員一樣跑啊跑,跳起跨騎在馬背上,然後摔下來……雖然工作人員在庫伯的胯部綁了一個加厚的墊子,但對於他來說,這仍然是一項苦差。布賴恩•萊溫特特別高度表揚了庫伯的敬業:“本來我是想找替身完成這部分場景的,是庫伯堅持說自己要試試,沒想到他頂著一身肥油還能跑得這麼快,估計戲拍完了,他完全有資格去做一名特技演員。”
The film opens up on Christmas night in Portland, Oregon, where a man appears outside of a decorated house with flowers. On his way to the door, however, he falls into several traps and is left a mess. The culprit of these traps are revealed to be a girl and boy named Lindsey and Kevin Kingston (Aleisha Allen and Philip Daniel Bolden), whose mother has divorced their father. The two are determined to keep her single until the two reconcile.
The film then introduces, Nick Persons (Ice Cube), a 37-year-old child-hating bachelor/businessman, as he purchases an expensive SUV (a 2005 Lincoln Navigator) and boasts with his beloved bobble-head of Satchel Paige (voiced by Tracy Morgan), who comes to life at its own will – though only Nick can see/hear him. When he reaches his Fine Sports Collectibles shop, he witnesses the woman of his dreams, Suzanne Kingston (Nia Long). On his way to talk with her, however, he is disgusted to find that she has two kids, Lindsey and Kevin. Later that night, he runs into her on his way home, asking for a jump start as her car had broken down. After suffering an electrocution, he agrees to take her home, and once there, agrees to transport her wherever she needs to go. On New Year’s Eve, he brings her to an airport to go to Vancouver for a business meeting, but her ex-husband calls to say he’s sick and cannot bring the children to the airport, leaving her to put her trust in Nick.
Once at her house, he meets Kevin and Lindsey for the second time and gives them “gifts” (a pizza coupon for Lindsey and a corkscrew for Kevin). They go to the airport, when Kevin accidentally damages Nick’s car door, where Nick is beaten after Kevin learns that corkscrews are illegal to bring on planes and ditches the item in Nick’s jacket pocket. They then decide to use a train, where the two kids jump off the train to collect a missing item from Kevin’s doll just as Nick boards. This results in them losing their luggage. They then reluctantly decide to drive. Believing Nick is only a friend to their mother, the kids are tamed, but still misbehave and show Nick little respect. At a truck stop, the two learn from one of Nick’s friends that he not only hates the two, but lied about not having feelings about their mother. They then show much less restraint and cause mayhem throughout the trip; hijacking Nick’s car, injuring Nick, signaling to truck driver Al Buck (M. C. Gainey) that they have been kidnapped by Nick (resulting in heavy damage to his car startling Nick), and ultimately running away to visit their father….