Okay, these movies are becoming a guilty pleasure. Your typical Utopian family movie, in the vein of Beethoven, Father of the Bride, etc. Very sweet and a couple of genuinely funny moments.
Still wondering why Bonnie Tyler doesn't get more notice... she's brilliant. She's perfect in these 'mother' roles.
Side note... What's going on with Hilary Duff in this film? She looks terrible! I can't say I'm her biggest fan, but she's not exceptionally painful to watch like certain other actresses in her age group... I digress... She looked anorexic in this film! Somebody feed the girl! Surely she doesn't think being that skinny is attractive!
Anyway, as I said, I enjoy these films. So they're nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary, but there's a sentimental old fool living in me who has made these films a guilty pleasure.
Sometimes it isn't true when they say the more, the merrier and it is definitely not true in this particular film. It is not as good as the first film, and the subplots aren't that well done but it is still a fine and so-so movie.
Tom Baker and wife Kate, hoping to bring their family together for a memorable summer vacation, take their 12 offspring to the rustic Lake Winnetka. But, their retreat soon becomes cutthroat when they...( read more read more... ) enter into a competition with the over-achieving members of a large family headed by Tom's long-time rival, Jimmy Muraugh.
Plot: Steve Martin returns as the proud patriarch of the Baker family in this sequel to the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, based on a book by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth. This time, all twelve Baker kids and their parents, Tom (Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt), are going on vacation, returning to their summer cabin in Wisconsin for one last hurrah before the kids grow up and go their separate ways. Lorraine (Hilary Duff) is on her way to New York to begin an internship with VOGUE, Nora (Piper Perabo) is hugely pregnant, and the Bakers want to spend some quality time all together for a change. As the family arrives at their old house, however, they realize that some things have changed?and some things never do. Tom?s old high school rival, Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) is now the big man about town, owning much of the surrounding area, and raising his large family in a huge home across the lake from the Bakers?. The longstanding competition between the two families?or at least that of the fathers--mounts over the course of their vacation, as the two men resort to ever nastier tactics of one-upsmanship. Meanwhile, Charlie Baker (Tom Welling) becomes closer with Anne Murtaugh (Jamie King), and Sarah (Alyson Stoner) embarks on her first romance with Eliot Murtaugh (Taylor Lautner). It all comes to a head when the two families face off in a canoeing race, during which they are faced with a decision between loyalty to family and friends, and the competitive edge.
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, headed by Eugene Levy.
awesome movie taylor lautner is hott i love this movie!!! good message...it made my mom and sister cry in the movie theater and they said it reminded thm of me???....
For a sequal this movie was good! (I didnt even realise it was a sequal, until I started watching int - i didnt know they made another one, I was just going to rewawtch the first ). But turns out it was funny, and worth a watch. Especially good for a family movie.
*Growls* I COULD'VE Been in that movie, except that girl took it. But, the girl I was going to play isn't my style ;) I got a call back for the part :(
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, headed by Eugene Levy. Amazing Storyline, filled with all kinds of Laughs along the Way.
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, headed by Eugene Levy
steve martin stars in the new classic cheaper by the dozen 2. It all starts when tom wants to move to a new house. When he meets his old stupid enemy. Supirsingly Sharkboy from sharkboy and lava girl was included to like a girl. Shark boy invites her to the movies when tom comes in and wrects the whole thing. The next day Tom could only gather up 2 members for the family cup. Then when tom thought it was over he's family came and to the rescue and they had 12 kids. In the end it was a tie and it was a boat race. The bakers had someone pregnet so they werent going to compete but believe it or not she did. Her water broke when she was in the paddling thingy lol. She was in giant pain. So they had to forfeit and go to the hospital and she delivered a baby boy owww lol. HILARIOUS MOVIE 5 STARS!!!!!
MCT:April 25, 2008
MCT:April 18, 2008
MCT:April 6, 2008
MCT:March 31, 2008
MCT:March 21, 2008
MCT:March 11, 2008
MCT:February 6, 2008
MCT:February 3, 2008
MCT:January 4, 2008
