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Critics Consensus: In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity.
Critic Consensus: In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity.
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Levy directs what amounts to an almost plotless - and entirely pointless - slice of controlled chaos as if it were an expensive pilot for a TV sitcom.
It's not just a feel-good holiday movie, though audiences, especially youngsters, will certainly walk out of it feeling good.
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.
Martin and Hunt give the production a mellow warmth. And Levy has cast an appealingly diverse bunch of kids to play the young Bakers.
So calculatedly cast with popular kid stars that it seems a focus group was guiding all the choices.
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.
Remake bears no resemblance to the 1950 original.
What a lovely surprise: beyond the gloss of this formulaic Hollywood comedy about the importance of family, lies a heart-felt and hilarious treasure chest filled with home truths.
The children (including creepy Hilary Duff) are 12 shades of dreadful.
Good comedy is derived from the characters, but this film doesn't establish its characters well enough to be effective on that level.
It's not that Cheaper by the Dozen is awful. Worse than that, it's just plain dull.
Life in the Baker house is as chaotic as life in the original 1950 Cheaper Gilbreth house was well-ordered and organized. I think I like the in-name-only remake better.
It looks so fun to have a huge family! It was predictable but not bad. Hilary looked good as usual.
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Kind of stupid.
Feel good film. A definite comedy classic that will have you laughing your pants off.
Yes okay a simplistic and enjoyable movie that is vaguely amusing. No idea why anyone on earth would want that amount of children but okay.
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