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User Comments for: Cheaper by the Dozen

engineerchange says...
11 months ago
A great cast, but the story fell short for me. Overall, the movie just lacks vision. I think more could have been done with the family as a team at the restaurant. The naughts movies do a better job of full family scenes. Each kid's problems seem very separate from the group as a whole. It just seemed like a cookie-cutter copy of the first Steve Martin movie with an arch about bullying, an arch about twins being twins, and an arch about the outcast kid who isn't understood by anyone. The live-in other adults seems like a way to waste time instead of focusing on the family itself.

The book does a great job of stirring the pot when it comes to ingenuity and creativity when it comes to the family as a whole. Just read the book and get inspired from that before making the movie. Try to make therbligs relevant again is all I'm saying.

Sorry to hear Disney Plus is throwing this in the vault, though. It didn't really have much time in the limelight.

P.S., I will say I enjoyed the reference to Gabrielle Union having a rich sportsperson husband.
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