Cheaper By The Dozen 2
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Eugene Levy, Steve Martin
Details: US, 87mins, PG.
Cheaper by the Dozen seems to be Hollywood's mantra right now: release a poor remake of a pointless film and, before anyone can truly fathom how bad it is, hit them with a sequel. It's getting harder and harder to remember but Steve Martin was once a funny man who starred in classics like The Man With Two Brains and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. He halted the downward trajectory of his career with Bowfinger, but it's tough to feel any sympathy when he appears in movies like this. Martin has played the put-upon parent before, but where Parenthood had a message at its core, Cheaper by the Dozen's message seems to be 'don't have twelve kids – it's really hard'. Like, no kidding, Sherlock. There are some highlights in Ashton Kutcher's narcissistic model-actor cameo but we've seen all this before. Imagine Home Alone multiplied by twelve; that's right - a nightmare for anyone over the age of 12.
Review by Gavin Burke
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