It's not just a feel-good holiday movie, though audiences, especially youngsters, will certainly walk out of it feeling good.
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12/26/03
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:10
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity.
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $138,507,634
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... [More]
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Steve Martin, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo
Director: Shawn Levy
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Reviews for Cheaper by the Dozen
Top CriticThis 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.
12/25/03
Top CriticMartin and Hunt give the production a mellow warmth. And Levy has cast an appealingly diverse bunch of kids to play the young Bakers.
12/25/03
Top CriticSo calculatedly cast with popular kid stars that it seems a focus group was guiding all the choices.
12/25/03
Top CriticWe 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.
12/25/03
Top CriticIndistinguishable from an Afterschool Special.
12/25/03
Top CriticThe cartoonish chaos will engage little ones, while Tom's struggle to balance career and home time should keep parents' eyes on the screen.
12/25/03
Top CriticThis 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.
12/25/03
Top CriticAll 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.
12/25/03
Top CriticThere is not a frame of Cheaper that doesn't feel contrived. It fails the most fundamental test of movie logic.
12/25/03
Top CriticYou don't so much watch this witless, charmless, pointless fiasco as sit hostage, waiting for it to end.
12/25/03
Top CriticRemember when we used to look forward to Steve Martin movies? Those days may be gone with Martin now relegated to messy slapstick comedies that strain to see whether they can be as sentimental as they are predictable.
12/25/03
Top CriticHollywood has tried too hard, attempting to re-create organic family life through excessive artificiality.
12/25/03
Top CriticMost of Tom and Kate Baker's 12 children seem to have been flown in from a casting office in Burbank.
12/25/03
Top CriticFrom playful mugging to tender affection, Martin exudes a strong star persona, and he and Hunt share romantic warmth despite a dearth of alone time.
12/25/03
Top CriticFifty-three years of progress later, and this typifies the stuff that families have come to expect in the good name of entertainment -- the laughs are way down, but the decibel level has gone through the roof.
12/25/03
Top CriticSilly, noisy, comforting fun.
12/25/03
Top CriticA bad sitcom expanded to 98 excruciatingly unfunny minutes of family chaos, with Martin suffering every possible indignity and stain that can be inflicted on a good-guy daddy.
12/25/03
Top CriticFormulas are essential for any family of 12 children. Cheaper by the Dozen follows an abundance of formulas, all used before.
12/25/03
Top CriticLighthearted fun, providing little character bits for all of the family members.
12/24/03
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