Kinda terrible. I've seen all the previous versions of Cheaper by the Dozen and this was by far the worst.

Lets start with Kate, the ex-wife of the lead male character Paul. Kate always seems to be hanging around the house where Paul and Zoey live, but there is no explanation for why Paul seems to have full custody and why Kate doesn't seem to have any. She is constantly called "the sitter" as if she is just around to baby sit, which she does, poorly.

Then there is Dom, Zoey's ex-husband who ends up being a jerk threatening to take custody of his children away after the daughter sneaks out to visit a boyfriend, and the son dresses as a punk/goth for a birthday party.

Zoey herself was such a strange character who at every turn took everyone's comments to be racist, or prejudicial in other ways, and she was always accusing people of being so. Then when someone actually was racist and actually did accuse one of the kids of being a thief, Zoey is just like, ok whatever and bewilderingly that person gets away with those comments several times over the course of the movie with barely a blink from Zoey. She also kept accusing Paul of leaving her out of things involving the business, but she didn't imo put a lot of effort into talking to Paul about what was going on with that. Its 2022 (in the movie) they could have been facetiming, zooming, txting, doing virtual tours of shop spaces for the franchise etc. There is absolutely no reason she couldn't have been just as involved as Paul was.

The kids themselves were charming and fun, but aside from a few "cute" moments nothing about the plot involved them (other than being a part of the family.)

Also I think somewhere along the way the movie forgot how many kids there were supposed to be.

The entire movie there only 10 kids:

(2) Kate and Paul's daughters: Ella and Harley
(1) Haresh, who was adopted by Kate and Paul who are his godparents (his parents were killed in a car accident)
(2) Zoey and Dom's children: DJ and and Deja
(4) then Zoey married Paul and they had two sets of twins, Luca and Luna, and Bronx and Bailey.

Thats 9 so far.

(1) Then Paul and Zoey took in Paul's nephew Seth.

So that makes 10 kids.

[spoiler]At the end of the movie we see they named their new restaurant "Baker's Dozen". Now a Baker's Dozen is actually 13. But there are only 10 kids. Since Dom invested in the "Sauce" I suppose the Baker's dozen is the 10 kids plus the three adults. Zoey, Paul and Dom. But thats actually confusing because that leaves Kate (who is still a part of the family) out.[/spoiler]

And the entire joke of the title is a call back to the original 1950 movie, where someone asks the father "Hey, mister! How come you got so many kids?" and the father replies "Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know". The joke works in the first two movies because there are 12 kids. It does not work in this version, because there are only 10 kids.