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Avg. Critic Score: 46 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
8 Iffy for 8+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    It's not just a feel-good holiday movie, though audiences, especially youngsters, will certainly walk out of it feeling good. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Martin and Hunt are exactly the right lively but not sticky authority figures to keep the house (and the comedy pace) bouncing. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Lighthearted fun. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    This is a movie that knows its audience and realizes it doesn't need much of a story to hit that audience, literally, where it lives. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    An unobjectionable if uninspired updating of a classic family story for the minivan generation. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Makes one long for Martin's edgy work in films such as "The Spanish Prisoner." Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Thanks to Martin and Hunt, who both have a seemingly casual flair for mining laughs from even the most generic lines of dialogue, Cheaper by the Dozen works better than it might have in less capable hands, but even they're challenged by some of the picture's forced mood swings. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    As synthetic as a plastic Christmas tree. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Unfortunately knows no tone between schmaltzy/gooey and slapstick/gross-out. Pic is as far from the original pic and its autobiographical memoir source as it can be while retaining the same title. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    A bubbling crockpot of farcical mush to warm the tummies of anyone who really and truly misses "The Brady Bunch," and I mean really and truly. Read full review

View more reviews for Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) on Metacritic

Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 8+ Remake bears no resemblance to the 1950 original.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the movie includes some schoolyard-style naughty words and PG-style sexual references that get close to a PG-13. When asked about his 12 children, Tom smirks about his wife: "I couldn't keep her off me." He explains that he had a vasectomy but did not wait for it to become effective, resulting in the second set of twins. And part of the plot concerns the oldest child (an adult) moving in with her boyfriend (which does not bother her parents) and whether they should be allowed to sleep together when they visit the family. Some audience members may be offended by the portrayal of the family as vaguely Catholic, with references to Jesus and a rosary but no evidence of religious observance. There is comic peril with some minor injuries. The product placement (Crate & Barrel) is particularly (and annoyingly) intrusive.
  • Families can talk about how they work together to make sure that they achieve a balance between time for work and time for each other.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Some gross-out humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence and scariness: There is comic peril with some minor injuries.
  • sex false3 Sexy stuff: Sexual references that get close to a PG-13.
  • language false3 Language: Some schoolyard-style naughty words.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: The product placement (Crate & Barrel) is particularly (and annoyingly) intrusive.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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