Stars: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Alyson Stoner, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff

Director: Shawn Levy

Summary: Tom Baker is offered a job as a Division One football coach and promptly moves his wife and twelve children to a leafy suburb of Chicago. The move unsettles the children and they start to go off the rails...

College sweethearts Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) both dreamed of having a huge family and fulfilling careers. But after they had a few kids, Kate gave up her career as a sportswriter, Tom abandoned his hope of becoming the coach of their alma mater's football team, and they moved their brood from the city to the country. Now, after twelve children and a happy life in rural Illinois, Tom has been offered the chance to live his dream and coach the Stallions. No sooner does the family pack up and move to Chicago to pursue Tom's dream job than Kate's ship comes in as well; a publisher has picked up her manuscript based on her experiences raising twelve children. Of course, there's a catch. Kate has to go to New York for a few days, leaving Tom to babysit his clan. Can Tom hold it together with his kids--who didn't want to move in the first place--pulling him one way and the university pulling him the other

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The best performance in Cheaper by the Dozen 2is by an actress you've probably never heard of: 11-year-old Alyson Stoner, who plays Sarah, one of twelve children of Tom and Kate Baker (Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt). The movie follows the popular clan of the previous remake of Cheaper by the Dozenas they go to a camp in the mountains, where Tom renews his rivalry with Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy, Bringing Down the House).

To the movie's credit, it doesn't quite degenerate into a National Lampoon's Vacationknock-off, though it comes perilously close. But thanks to the grace of Bonnie Hunt and general good spirits of the cast of kids (including Tom Welling, Smallville; Hilary Duff, The Perfect Man, who in some scenes becomes uncomfortably Lolita-esque; and Piper Perabo, Coyote Ugly, among others), this unnecessary sequel manages to remain enjoyable to anyone with a taste for broad family movies. But Stoner--as a tomboy getting her first crush--brings considerable charisma to her generically-written part, and her scenes give the movie a much-needed emotional lift. Otherwise, it's a movie in which Carmen Electra plays the voice of reason (in a series of tight-fitting tops). --Bret Fetzer

Aspect Ratio:	16:9
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary With Director Shawn Levy, Audio Commentary With Child Cast Members, Eleven Deleted Or Extended Scenes With Optional Commentary, Four Featurettes, Storyboard To Screen Comparisons, Easter Eggs
Year:	2003
Release Date:	May 31, 2004
Runtime:	95 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	24311 D V D
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Dozen, Cheaper
Genre:	Comedy