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CONDENSATION:
Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) live in a small Illinois hamlet, where Tom coaches the college football crew, and Kate concentrates on their twelve children. Life is organised chaos: eldest daughter Nora (Piper Perabo) has recently moved in with low-standing actor Hank (Ashton Kutcher), but teenage son Charlie (Tom Welling) and sassy daughter Lorraine (Hilary Duff) help with the people responsibilities. When Tom is offered his dream job coaching a yoke at a large university, the family is uprooted, much to the vexation of all 12 children. Then, Kate learns her memoirs are about to be published, and is whisked away to New York on a publicity tour, leaving Tom to cope with the mounting pressures and problems at effectively and his supplemental job.

Review by Louise Keller:

What a lovely surprise: beyond the gloss of this formulaic Hollywood comedy in the significance of genealogy, lies a heart-felt and hilarious treasure chest filled with home truths. The magic of a good comedy is in the recognition of emotions that chime true. Director Shawn Levy (Just Married, Big Fat Liar) plays the comedy for all its worth, incorporating not purely over-the-top slapstick that prompts the belly laughs, but hones in on those little true-to-life incidents and emotions that we instantly connect to. 
Get off on the passionate crescendo that pivots on a flat red-haired crony with glasses losing his dearest frog Beans, and what happens next. No amount of mayhem and foolishness or fabrication, cast breakfast with scrambled eggs splattered children when the frog is rescued from the light parts first of all the kitchen table, can disclaim the verve-felt actuality of a twinkling of an eye like a child losing his confidante and best friend. Sam Harper, who also collaborated with Levy on Just Married, joins screenwriters Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, combining creative ideas and heart, to deliver laughs and pathos. 
Of lecture who larger to emphasize father to the Baker?s dozen, but all the time-cheerful Steve Martin, whose madcap antics and dear nature are shaken and stirred as he tries to have both his pursuit dream as well as his hallucination get at home. Martin is well matched by Bonnie Hunt, whose easy comedic flair is a day on display. Much is made of the narcissistic Hank (a comic deliver up by Ashton Kutcher), as he recurrently sings his own praises and oogles at himself in a mouthwash commercial. 
The scheming Baker kids concoct the far-out design (unbeknownst to him) to sponge Hank's underpants in meat and suffer the consequences, as not only their dog Gunner, but all the neighbourhood dogs can?t dart themselves away from his crotch. When Tom reprimands the kids, letting the cat out of the bag them that what they did was out of order, even nevertheless it was funny, we sense that he is filled with delight at the adept plan. (Previous visits by Hank had prompted him to be set on fire, although as everyone is painful to remind us, it was exclusive his pants). 
There?s plenitude of teenage attraction with Tom Welling?s rebelling Charlie and Hilary Dud?s Lorraine with the lip-gloss and Piper Perabo?s Nora, who makes us understand the warm tug-a-war she is affluent through making a performance for a creative life on her own, but retains the ties of one’s own flesh. Not surprisingly, the locality stealers are the kids, and in particular our hearts warm to Forrest Landis, the little boy with the frog, whose nickname Fedex offers an insight to his alienation from his siblings. 
Yes, there are moments that are sheer manipulation and contrivance ? like the place when Steve Martin?s Tom hides himself in the passage cupboard while reassuring his wife on the other vanish of the phone that caboodle is under control. We be informed the truly, as we hear the shattering of glassware and the leaf of a wound slices through the door, like a piece of firewood and hell is breaking broad. It is possible that it is because there is plenty that is done benefit of laughs, that it comes as a big surprise, to spot such a real emotional connection with the characters as the film comes to its grow. Cheaper by the Dozen offers more than a dozen ways to laugh at the peculiarities of quotidian life, never letting us omit its quintessence sentiment, that it is the all-portentous ancestors that makes it all worthwhile.

MEET HOUR:
99 minutes
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR:
Fox
AUSTRALIAN REMISSION:
January 8, 2004

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