Kate (Jennifer Aniston) leads a generally happy life – there is just one problem. She has contributed over and over to her job, but she just can’t seem to get ahead. Most recently she saved the Gulden’s mustard account at the last minute with a creative approach, but now she’s not even on the team that will be handling their advertising.

When she confronts her boss, she is told to dress not for the job she has, but for the job she wants – which perhaps isn’t completely appropriate, since it has nothing to do with the way Kate dresses, and everything to do with the fact that she has no ties to the company.

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Who would expect a movie with Ice Cube to be a family movie? Is this the same guy? As it turns out, it is. And there is certainly some edge to his character, but he turns it out.

His character is a sports collector, with all sorts of memorabilia, including a bobblehead doll of Satchel Paige who tries to talk him out of one thing or another (and often seems to get him into more trouble). In order to get in good with a new girl, he agrees to bring her kids to meet her. Perhaps not the best idea.

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Put-upon Alan tries to help out his dad (played by Kevin Dunn, a somewhat absentee father) by picking up a small batch of toys from his truck driver pal, so that he can sell them and make some money for their toy store before his dad returns from a trip.

It’s only his luck that he gets this first batch out and activates them before they are supposed to be released – only to find out that over-achiever Larry (played by the great Jay Mohr) used the password of his buddy Irwin (David Cross) to order some defense department computer chips to bring the toys to life, give them a real kick. It looks like it may have been just a bit too much.

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