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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 60 Ratings

  • 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)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 24
  2. Negative: 11 out of 24
  1. 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. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    50
    The point isn't really to make you laugh. The film is supposed to make people feel good about their families, and it does a fine job of it.
  3. Compared with Martin's first "Dozen" and the recent mega-family movie "Yours, Mine and Ours," this sequel is Academy Award material.
  4. 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 34
  2. Negative: 21 out of 34
  1. BobBob
    10
    It was the best movie ever!
  2. BradS.
    8
    This movie is not great, but it's a lot better than the critics' ratings. As a parent of seven, I especially enjoyed the small touches of realism (like mom tossing back into the van the empty soda cans that spilled out as the kids unloaded). Most of it was funny, and some parts were genuinely touching. A little too much T&A for my taste, however. Expand
  3. an improvement over the first movie.
  4. Lau`renM.
    4
    This is very interesting.A couple good laughs but not realy good or really bad... just... interesting.

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