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Cheaper by the Dozen 2
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34 out of 100

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3.0 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 48 Ratings

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  • Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Steve Martin
  • Summary: The Bakers are back...BIG time! Only this time, they're going toe-to-toe against another clan in the ultimate inter-family battle. Bigger scale, more laughs, ramped-up action - and lots of heart - are the hallmarks of the Baker's new adventure. (20th Century Fox)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 24
  3. Negative: 11 out of 24
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    What I liked the most about the second "Dozen," was another performance, the one by Alyson Stoner as their daughter Sarah. As a girl poised on the first scary steps of adolescence, she finds the kind of vulnerability and shy hope that Reese Witherspoon projected in "The Man in the Moon."
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    50
    Compared with Martin's first "Dozen" and the recent mega-family movie "Yours, Mine and Ours," this sequel is Academy Award material.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    38
    It has virtually nothing in common with the charming book written by the Gilbreths about their turn-of-the-century family and everything to do with making money on DVD rentals.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 32
  3. Negative: 19 out of 32
  1. BobBob
    10
    It was the best movie ever!
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  2. AMovieCritic
    5
    I thought it was actually kind of decent. I mean...look. No, it's really not a comedy but an over-sentimental "family movie"... but at this, it was kind of successful. I don't know...it was just a "nice movie." I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except younger kids, but I think they may actually end up liking it. Older audiences who are forced to watch it will not be completely bored. And the movie also didn't play it quite as safe as the 1st movie, introducing at least a couple jokes for an older audience. Although yeah, as a comedy, this series has failed miserably. I really think these movies would have been better with a PG-13 rating, maybe older kids, target an older audience, have more older issues and much more humor (not slapstick,) and we may have had a good franchise. At any rate, sometimes you're forced to see movies like this, and...look; it wasn't the worst thing in the world. It was actually an alright movie. It deserves at least a little credit for not being as horrible as the first Cheaper by the Dozen. Still, this great idea of a 12-kid family was wasted on sugary family movies, and it's just unfortunate. As for Steve Martin....I don't know. He tried to go back to his zany roots with Pink Panther, but this was then edited down by the studio to become (yet another) family movie. It's really not his fault, although let's hope that whatever he's in next will actually be for HIS FANS, not the kids of his fans.… Expand
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  3. TheCritic
    2
    Terrible. Not even worth sleeping through.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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