Fresh
It's not just a feel-good holiday movie, though audiences, especially youngsters, will certainly walk out of it feeling good.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Cheaper by the Dozen
The more...the scarier!
2003 · 1h 38m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Family
Directed by
Shawn Levy
Overview
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
25%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
Martin and Hunt give the production a mellow warmth. And Levy has cast an appealingly diverse bunch of kids to play the young Bakers.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Rotten
So calculatedly cast with popular kid stars that it seems a focus group was guiding all the choices.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Rotten
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.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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