History Film / AreWeThereYet

** Despite her sassiness and occasional picking on her younger brother, Lindsey wasn't actually wrong when she called Nick out for giving Kevin a corkscrew as a "gift", not only because it's an object dangerous for children to use but also because it is illegal to bring on planes. Since Kevin brought it along on their way to the airport [[DirtyCoward and chose to hide it inside Nick's pocket]], this resulted in them being forced out of the building.

** When Suzanne asks Nick if he knows what her kids names are, he replies "[[Series/TheCosbyShow Rudy and Theo?]]"

* ShoutOut: Kevin plays the videogame ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'' at one point.

* JerkassRealization: Kevin and Lindsey take back their attitude towards Nick (and Suzanne's other exes they chased away) upon realizing [[spoiler:their father had actually left them on purpose to start a new life of his own]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: While Nick couldn't stand Kevin and Lindsey, even he feels bad for them when [[spoiler:they find out their dad abandoned them]].

* HarmfulToMinors: Discussed between Nick and Lindsay when Kevin is heard playing the videogame ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem''.
-->'''Lindsay''': That game doesn't sound G-Rated.\\
'''Nick''': Yeah, but it's keeping him occupied.\\
'''Lindsay''': The boy played Lady Pac-Man at the mall and had nightmares for a week! ''(grabs the controller)''.

* TookALevelInKindness: Kevin and Lindsay, although they still engage in some shenanigans, are considerably more sympathetic in the sequel.

* WhamShot: When Kevin and Lindsay finally make it to where their absentee father lives. [[spoiler: He is not only not sick and bedridden as he led them to believe, he is also remarried with a new baby, much to their dismay]]. Even Nick felt sorry for them.

* RageBreakingPoint: In the sequel, Nick finally loses his patience with Chuck when the latter tells him that their house is still on the foundation, chasing him with a wooden stick and firing him on the spot.

* RageBreakingPoint: In the sequel, Nick eventually loses his patience with Chuck when the latter tells him that their house is still on the foundation, chasing him with a wooden stick and firing him on the spot.

* TemptingFate: Nick to a nauseated Kevin: "Hey, man, don't even worry about it. There's nothing more that you could do to this car". Cue ''vomit''.

* TookALevelInKindness: Kevin and Lindsay, although they still engage in some shenanigans, are considerably nicer and more sympathetic in the sequel.

* TookALevelInKindness: Kevin and Lindsay, though they still engage in some shenanigans, are considerably nicer and more sympathetic in the sequel.

* KidsPlayMatchBreaker: Lindsey and Kevin scare away all of their mother’s dates so she can get back together with their dad. At the beginning of the movie, they set up a trap for one unlucky suitor that ends in him covered in glue and trapped in a Santa blow-up. When Nick is left with them, they terrorize him to nip any potential romance he might have with their mom in the bud. They lie that he’s kidnapped them to strangers, lock him out of his car, and even hop a train to get away from him.

** Kevin, for ditching the corkscrew Nick gave to him inside his pocket. For this, [[NotWhatItLooksLike Nick is mistaken for a murderer]] and tackled to the ground by security guards, leading to the trio being forced out of the airport and forced to travel to Vancouver by land. Later, he throws up on the windshield of Nick's car, nearly causing an accident and forcing Nick to stop in the woods for another few hours.

* PacManFever: Kevin is shown playing ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'' in Nick's minivan, and he's mashing the controller while the game makes sounds similar to collecting coins in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Chuck's constant sense of humour becomes the final straw for Nick to fire him, accusing him of not taking the new house's fixings seriously and calling it "a mess". In response, Chuck sadly leaves, though not before telling Nick that if he can't appreciate the difference between a house and a home, then maybe he wasn't "his guy" (more accurately, ''his contractor''). The rest of the building crew quit as well out of loyalty to Chuck. A blind member lampshades this to an appalled Nick when he notices this.

* WhamLine: When it seems like Suzanne wouldn't forgive Nick for what's happened to her kids in his custody and he turns to leave, she says this line:
-->'''Suzanne''': Nick? We can't be friends.... Because I want to be more than just a friend.\\

* CompanionCube: Kevin's Galaktico figure to the point where he refuses to leave the ignited car without finding it. [[spoiler: It's because he keeps his asthma inhaler in the figure's leg.]] Nick also has his bobble head Satch but the bobblehead is (to him) alive and acts as a conscience.

* FirstFatherWins: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. 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. However, it's evident that their mother has no interest in reconnecting with their father; when Suzanne is talking on the phone with Frank, who claimed he was sick so he could not pick up their children, she protests he has not spent time with them since Labor Day, and while they're arguing, he just hangs up on her. This implies that Frank has not stayed in contact with his ex-wife and children after the divorce. Lindsey and Kevin run away from Nick Persons, their mother's friend, when they learn he is interested in Suzanne and decide to go to their father's house, believing they can get their parents to fall in love again. [[spoiler:When they arrive, however, they see through a window that Frank is not sick, but in fact with a new family. Lindsey and Kevin finally realize that their father was lying to them so he could cut them out from his life. Even Nick, who was understandably angry with their antics, is sympathetic when he learns this and assures them that it was not their fault because their father is losing out on having his children in his life. Though painful, Lindsey and Kevin accept that their father does not want them around anymore and bond with Nick as their new father figure.]]

* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[PlayingWithATrope Downplayed]]. Mr. Rooney, who was passing by at the Persons household, asks Nick how Chuck is doing. Nick replies that he doesn't know and doesn't care. Of course, Rooney is kept in the dark about Chuck's firing by Nick, who immediately takes back this statement when he is told that Ellie, Chuck's wife and a famous singer, died a few years ago, inspiring Nick into personally apologizing to him and hiring him back.

** Despite her sassiness and occasional picking on her younger brother, Lindsey wasn't actually wrong when she called Nick out for giving Kevin a corkscrew as a "gift", not only because it's an object dangerous for children to use, but also because they are illegal to bring on planes. Since Kevin brought it along on their way to the airport [[DirtyCoward and chose to hide it inside Nick's pocket]], this resulted in them being forced out of the building.
** Although firing Danny and his brothers because of a party they threw with Lindsey in attendance was a petty whim on his part, Nick was totally on point in scolding both Lindsey, whom he still treats as a kid, and Danny for not asking him permission in the first place. Even Danny knows Nick is right when he comes back to apologize and begs him to hire them back into fixing his house.

* LivingToys: The wisecracking Satchel Paige bobblehead (often referred to as simply “Satch”), voiced by Tracy Morgan, in the first film. Satch is not featured in the sequel.

* AllForNothing: 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. 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. They finally ditch him and arrive at their father's house, [[spoiler: 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. 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.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: In the first film, Nick is at first against playing "Hamster Dance" on his car stereo (as he likes to "keep it gangsta") but he soon finds himself getting into the song as well.

* PushoverParents: Subverted. Suzanne stands up to her kids, but she doesn't give effective punishment for their actions.
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Happens in the second movie, between Nick and a ''frigging FISH''.

* TemptingFate: My God, this movie is full of them.
** Nick to a nauseated Kevin: "Hey, man, don't even worry about it. There's nothing more that you could do to this car". Cue ''vomit''.

* GroinAttack: Kevin kicks Nick, when he offers to teach him some “Chinese.”

--->'''Lindsay''': That game doesn't sound G-Rated.
--->'''Nick''': Yeah, but it's keeping him occupied.
--->'''Lindsay''': The boy played Lady Pac-Man at the mall and had nightmares for a week! ''(grabs the controller)''.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite her sassiness and occasional picking on her younger brother, Lindsey wasn't actually wrong when she called Nick out for giving Kevin a corkscrew as a "gift", not only because it's an object dangerous for children to use, but also because they are illegal to bring on planes. Since Kevin brought it along on their way to the airport [[DirtyCoward and chose to hide it inside Nick's pocket]], this resulted in them being forced out of the building.

--->'''Suzanne''': Nick? We can't be friends.... Because I want to be more than just a friend.
--->'''Nick''': ''(happily)'' What?

* PottyEemergency: Kevin has one and Nick ends up rushing him into a gas station's bathroom. The other stalls in the bathroom are being used and the one remaining stall is a Main/DisgustingPublicToilet, so Kevin has no choice but to use the bathroom sink.

** Lindsey, for pretending to be kidnapped and causing the truckers to attack Nick, and later, taking a picture of the deer that Nick and Kevin feed, causing it to attack Nick and make him drop his keys, which leads to him accidentally setting his car on fire.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: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 as to cut them and their mother out of his new life.]]

* AllForNothing: 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. 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. They finally ditch him and arrive at their father's house, [[spoiler: 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. 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 mothers' boyfriends for an impossible goal.]]

* AsthmaPeril: Kevin has asthma and keeps his inhaler inside a large superhero action figure. After they reach Vancouver, Kevin has an asthma attack while at the ice rink and Nick saves him by administering his inhaler, proving to Suzanne that Nick really cares for her kids.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:It's safe to say that Lindsey and Kevin don't hold their father in such high esteem anymore after seeing he abandoned them to start a new family with another woman and just made a flimsy excuse of being sick as to cut them and their mother out of his new life.]]

* GroinAttack: Kevin kicks Nick, when he offers to teach him some “Chinese.” Later when the kids steal the car from Nick, he ends up hangs no upside in the open car too down with his legs open and the car is driven into a statue of a lumber jack complete with an axe, the axe connects with his testicles . He grunts moans and coughs and cries

--->'''Nick''': Yeah but it's keeping him occupied.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Despiter her sassiness and ocassional picking on her baby brother, Lindsey wasn't actually wrong when she called Nick out for giving Kevin a corkscrew as a "gift", not only because it's an object dangerous for children to use, but also because they are illegal to bring on planes. Since Kevin brought it along on their way to the airport [[DirtyCoward and chose to hide it inside Nick's pocket]], this resulted in them being forced out of the building.

* GroinAttack: Kevin kicks Nick, when he offers to teach him some “Chinese.” Later when the kids steal the car from Nick, he ends up hangs no upside in the open car too down with his legs open and the car is driven into a statue of a lumber jack complete with an axe, the axe connects with his testicles . He moans and coughs.

* AllForNothing: 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. 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. They finally ditch him and arrive at their father's house, [[spoiler: where they see 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. 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 mothers' boyfriends for an impossible goal.]]

* FirstFatherWins: {{Deconstruction}}. 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. However, it's evident that their mother has no interest in reconnecting with their father; when Suzanne is talking on the phone with Frank, who claimed he was sick so he could not pick up their children, she protests he has not spent time with them since Labor Day, and while they're arguing, he just hangs up on her. This implies that Frank has not stayed in contact with his ex-wife and children after the divorce. Lindsey and Kevin run away from Nick Persons, their mother's friend, when they learn he is interested in Suzanne and decide to go to their father's house, believing they can get their parents to fall in love again. [[spoiler:When they arrive, however, they see through a window that Frank is not sick, but in fact with a new family. Lindsey and Kevin finally realize that their father was lying to them so he could cut them out from his life. Even Nick, who was understandably angry with their antics, is sympathetic when he learns this and assures them that it was not their fault because their father is losing out on having his children in his life. Though painful, Lindsey and Kevin accept that their father does not want them around anymore and bond with Nick as their new father figure.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Kevin, for ditching the corkscrew Nick gave to him inside his pocket. For this, [[NotWhatItLooksLike Nick is mistaken for a murderer]] and tackled to the ground by security guards, then the trio being forced out of the airport.

* AreWeThereYet: The title of the film.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Despiter her sassiness and ocassional picking on her baby brother, Lindsey wasn't actually wrong when she called Nick out for giving Kevin a corkscrew as a "gift", not only because it's an object dangerous for children to use, but also because they are illegal to bring on planes. Since Kevin brought it along on their way to the airport and chose to hide it inside Nick's pocket, this resulted in them being forced out of the building.

* ParentalAbandonment: Lindsey and Keven's father was deemed sick. However, after getting to where he lives, they learned the hard way as to why he was really gone.