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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Director:
Shawn Levy, rated PG
Growing
pains? They've got twelve of them!
  Starring:
Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo, Tom
Welling, Kevin G. Schmidt, Alyson Stoner, Jacob Smith, Liliana
Mumy, Morgan York, Forrest Landis, Blake Woodruff, Brent
Kinsman, Shane Kinsman, Paula Marshall, Steven Anthony Lawrence,
Alan Ruck, Richard Jenkins
DML Rating:
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆
- above average
"You soaked his
underwear in meat. That is so wrong. Funny, but wrong." -
Tom
Why watch this? This
family comedy has some really funny moments.
Plot Summary:
Tom Baker accepts a dream job coaching a college football team,
prompting him, his wife Kate, and their twelve children to move
their large family from a quiet rural town to a bustling Chicago
suburb. The transition proves difficult as the children struggle
to adapt and the family attempts to manage their chaotic
household while both parents pursue new career opportunities.
Facing a looming book tour for Kate and escalating conflicts at
home, Tom must find a way to keep his family together amidst the
ensuing comedic turmoil.
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Dad's Preview:
Tom and Kate Baker are insane. Twelve-children-insane. Once you
get past that fact, it just go with it. Just to spice up life, he takes
a new job as head football
coaching at his college alma matter. Her book unexpectedly gets published
and she has to travel to NYC to promote it. It IS totally
impossible to expect that a COLLEGE FOOTBALL HEAD COACH
will have the time to, alone, manage
12 kids. Yet, Dad is determined to not impact wifey's career.
This all makes for a series of worst-possible
disasters. It's funny, sad, contrived, and will
elicit a tear from the manliest of men. For what
it is, a family adventure one sliver above
Nickelodeon, it's not half bad. |
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Robert
Simonds Productions; 20th Century Fox |
