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Cheaper by the Dozen

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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

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Reviews Counted:109

Fresh:25

Rotten:84

Average Rating:4.5/10

Consensus: In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for language and some thematic elements

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:13-02-2004

Synopsis: College sweethearts Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) both dreamed of having both fulfilling careers and a huge family. But after they had a few kids, Kate gave up her career as a... College sweethearts Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) both dreamed of having both fulfilling careers and a huge family. But after they had a few kids, Kate gave up her career as a sportswriter, Tom abandoned his hope of becoming the coach of their alma mater's football team, and they moved their brood from the city to the country. Now, after 12 children and a happy life in rural Illinois, Tom has been offered the chance to live his dream and coach the Stallions. No sooner does the family pack up and move to Chicago to pursue Tom's dream job than Kate's ship comes in as well: a publisher has picked up her manuscript based on her experiences raising 12 children. Of course, there's a hitch. Kate has to go to New York for a few days, leaving Tom as the primary caregiver for his clan. Can Tom hold it together with his kids--who didn't want to move in the first place--pulling him one way and the university pulling him the other? Shawn Levy directs this likable update of the 1950 film of the same title, which was based on a true (and very different) story. [More]

Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Steve Martin, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo

Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Steve Martin, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff, Kevin Schmidt, Jacob Smith, Alyson Stoner, Morgan York, Liliana Mumy, Forrest Landis, Blake Woodruff, Brent Kinsman, Shane Kinsman, Ashton Kutcher

Director: Shawn Levy

Director: Shawn Levy
Screenwriter: Sam Harper, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Story: Craig Titley
Producer: Robert Simonds, Michael Barnathan, Ben Myron
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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This is a movie that knows its audience and realizes it doesn't need much of a story to hit that audience, literally, where it lives.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
12/25/03
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Martin and Hunt give the production a mellow warmth. And Levy has cast an appealingly diverse bunch of kids to play the young Bakers.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
12/25/03
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

So calculatedly cast with popular kid stars that it seems a focus group was guiding all the choices.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
12/25/03
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

Though Tom Welling, Hilary Duff ... and Perabo are supposed to be the film's young stars, their thinly written characters leave Kutcher free to make more of his screen time than the three of them put together.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
12/25/03
Angel Cohn
Angel Cohn
TV Guide's Movie Guide

We are not only asked to find the barbarian Baker brood a model of familial loyalty and unconditional devotion, we're also asked to regard with contempt everyone else who does not share the Bakers' unbridled consumerist anarchy.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
12/25/03
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star

The warmth, messiness and gentle humor Cheaper offers is nothing to sneeze at.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
12/25/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Less a movie than a testament to marketing.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
12/25/03
Erik Lundegaard
Erik Lundegaard
Seattle Times
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
12/25/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Wait to rent this mixed-bag family film -- it's much cheaper.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
12/25/03
Tyler Hanley
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly

Martin may excel at playing buttoned-down, neurotic men coming apart at the seams, but he is wholly unconvincing playing dad to a lot of cute, precocious tykes from central casting.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
12/25/03
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

A cringe-inducing mixture of tired slapstick and gooey sentimentality.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
12/25/03
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Indistinguishable from an Afterschool Special.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
12/25/03
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer

You want to like any movie that pairs Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, but Cheaper by the Dozen just keeps getting Lamer by the Minute.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
12/25/03
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

It's ostensibly a remake of the 1950 Walter Lang comedy, though latter-day audiences will detect a far greater kinship to an early episode of The Brady Bunch with twice the brats.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
12/25/03
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

It wastes Hunt's whiplash-quick timing and further reduces the once-wild, once-crazy Martin to the generic father figure he has collected checks for in too many recent movies.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
12/25/03
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

The cartoonish chaos will engage little ones, while Tom's struggle to balance career and home time should keep parents' eyes on the screen.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
12/25/03
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger

This remake of the 1950 movie is a bubbling crockpot of farcical mush to warm the tummies of anyone who really and truly misses The Brady Bunch.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
12/25/03
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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All you need to know about the slapdash, bogus kiddie flick Cheaper by the Dozen can be summed up by the fact that Ashton Kutcher, making a glorified cameo as a narcissistic model-slash- actor, is the best thing in it.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
12/25/03
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post

There is not a frame of Cheaper that doesn't feel contrived. It fails the most fundamental test of movie logic.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
12/25/03
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

You don't so much watch this witless, charmless, pointless fiasco as sit hostage, waiting for it to end.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
12/25/03
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
 
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