Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.
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Really dull and the pregnant daughter stands around holding her supposed belly way too much. I've never seen a real pregnant woman hold onto their bellies as much as she did in that movie and I was one a few times. The whole movie is filled with contrived scenes you can guess will lead to other predictable supposedly funny or emotional scenes.
While the first Cheaper By The Dozen was a nightmare, it was at least interesting plotwise. The characters were often pushed to their limits and it had a plot that you enjoyed the buildup throughout and made it manageble to sit through once.While I didn't see this one in it's entirety, I saw enough to know that this was just a bunch of lame slapstick crap that you'd be lucky if you could make it through the first ten minutes. First of all, it's the dumb vacation storyline---the crappy vacation that, of course, brings everyone together in the end and ends with some sort of fun sporting event. Ugh, as if "Summer Rental" didn't teach us how much we didn't need that.On top of that, EVERYONE, and I mean, EVERYONE, outside of the fourteen family members (fifteen, if you count the stupid dog they had to overuse again) is gone. Yep, you read right. No Shake, no Hank, no Dylan and his parents, none of the school bullies (as if they had the decency to actually resolve the storyline with Tom Welling's character from the first film here), and hardly ANY continuity nods. No mention of their old home, no mention of Mark being "Fedex" in the first movie (he's practically WALLPAPER here!) or of Beans (SERIOUSLY! they don't mention the frog that died!), or even of their jobs. Hell, they don't even mention any of the characters from the first movie. They don't even show the house except for a few brief minutes at the beginning!!On top of that, none of the characters seem interesting anymore. I already mentioned in my review for the first movie that I hated Clark, but at least I had a reason to loathe him because he was so moody and he had some purpose being antagonized by Sam Winchester. Here, he's just...funny. And just the silly kind of funny. That I felt Hank was in the first movie, when he wasn't being treated as an antagonist. And oh yeah...Hank is replaced with some silly guy. But since he's not an antagonist, he's not interesting.This is not a sequel. The first movie was horrid, but at least the kind of horrid that made for an interesting first viewing. This is just crap reusing 14 of the cast members from the first film.
There are some good moments in this comedy sequel, but overall I found it limp and overly-predictable. Steve Martin and Eugene Levy do well as the two dads Tom and Jimmy, in fact the entire cast do well, even Carmen Electra who I can't stand. There is some nice scenery and music, and there are one or two funny parts, like the scene in the cinema and the line about the sweater. But as a sequel to an acceptable first film, it didn't score well with me. I will say it wasn't absolutely dire like I feared, but it is badly flawed. I actually found the gag reels funnier than the overall movie. The story is very predictable, and the jokes are either hits or misses, mostly misses sadly. Another problem was the very weak and clichéd script, not to mention the sluggish direction. Overall, not terrible, but it could have been better with a stronger script and less predictable story. 4/10 Bethany Cox
I Think Sarah and Elliot make a great couple. He is so cute. How are you supposed to spell Elliot, some spell it Elliot and others spell it Eliot. Yeah well i don't care what anyone else says. How much they diss the movies , I'll Still like them. And will still wait for the next one. Does anyone else find Elliot/Eliot cute or is it just me? I guess i got a little crush on him. He is such a good movie. Im hoping that if there is a 3rd movie he will be in it. He might be though because Nora the oldest sister moved into the house across the river from them. But they probably wont. If there is going to be a 3rd Movie i can not wait. I have only had the movie for a day, And I've already lost count of how many times i watched it. Anonymous