Daughter: Oh my god, can you guys just please wait till I leave the room?
Dad: Can you hurry?

I have no clue what it would be like to have 12 children, but Cheaper By The Dozen does a pretty good job of convincing me it would be something like that. The whole house is just pure chaos, and when mom leaves town there's no way that Dad can handle running the house and his new job (that's predictable.)

But that's not really the point of this movie. The real point is to watch the insanity and laugh a bit. It's not uproariously funny, but it's reasonably funny. This is a movie born out of the ABC TGIF Friday night sitcom tradition. It's feel good, has not some not so concealed moral messages, and supporting characters that are pure cliche. But if you just want to be entertained for a few hours it should do you fine.

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