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DVD Cheaper by the Dozen
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt corral a wild herd of rampaging children in Cheaper by the Dozen, an enjoyable family flick. When Kate Baker (Hunt, Jerry Maguire) gets a book deal for her chronicle of their abundant family life, she also gets drawn into a book tour--leaving Tom (Martin, Bringing Down the House, The Jerk) to run the house and cope with his new, high-pressure job as a football coach. Naturally, chaos erupts, bringing the family to the brink of meltdown. Cheaper by the Dozen is not a great movie or an important movie or even a surprising movie, but it is a warm-hearted crowd-pleaser. The Bakers' family life is a bit idealized and antiseptic, but anyone looking for an escape from their own less-ideal family lives won't mind. Also featuring Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo, and an uncredited Ashton Kutcher. --Bret Fetzer
If there's a problem with this "remake" of the classic fifties film, it's that the children are such little demons one can bearly find them cute. Seems like parents Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt have let their little younguns pretty much do what they want and this shows as they do several little pranks. Whether these pranks may seem justified (as with egotistical uncredited Ashton Kutcher), they don't justify their behavior. Martin and Hunt are actually very good in their performances and the children (Tom Welling and Hilary Duff especially) do well in their roles. It's just that they are so independent one wonders how their parents have managed to corral them at all! But to keep from being a total Scrooge, the movie has a central theme of family unity and it did entertain, so you can certainly do worse.
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I think Cheaper By The Dozen is a good movie. I watched it about a dozen times. It is a good movie because it is about a dozen kids and 2 parents - that's a lot to handle. I also like the people. I would like to play tricks on people. What I mean by that is they try to do something bad to their oldest sister's boyfriend and they leave. My favorite part is when, well... every thing really. I can't wait `til you see it and write something on Amazon. I'll be waiting to read it.
Rachael L., 4th grader, Holland, PA
HIDEOUSLY BAD, WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is laughably bad. Nothing makes sense; it lacks cohesion and lighting abilities. HORRIBLE Dialogue and ACTING. HORRIBLE Dialogue and ACTING. I cannot explain this any better. Only watch this if you want to see a movie that is a hilarious train wreck, be my guest. I can't get over how bad this is. There is one scene involving girls making the stupidest pain groans (which are pointless and don't make any sense), it is SO FUNNY!!!!!!
There are some good laughs to be found in Daddy Day Care, especially if you're a preschooler with energy to burn. This romper-room comedy shamelessly exploits its high concept idea--dropping Eddie Murphy into a seething den of rugrats--but kids will have plenty of vicarious fun as Murphy and his fellow laid-off colleague (Jeff Garlin) battle unemployment by opening a day-care center in Eddie's home. In partial Witches mode, Anjelica Huston hams it up as a day-care competitor bent on closing Eddie down, while doofus extraordinaire Steve Zahn is recruited as a third partner in "Daddy Day Care," trying his best to entertain a pack of hyperactive kids who've stopped taking their Ritalin. Zahn makes a funny Star Trek fan (even when the script contains bogus Trekkie... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Murphy - Jeff Garlin - Anjelica Huston Director(s): Steve Carr (III) DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In the wonderfully entertaining Freaky Friday, teenager Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her forty-something psychiatrist mom Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) have sunk into a rut of frustrated bickering--until a magic spell causes them to switch bodies. Suddenly Tess finds herself faced with petty teachers, vicious rivals, and a hunky boy, while Anna has to cope with her mother's neurotic patients as well as her befuddled fiance (Mark Harmon), who doesn't understand why his bride-to-be is suddenly recoiling from his embrace on the eve of their wedding. Both Lohan and Curtis turn in deft, delightful performances, with Curtis showing a surprising flair for physical comedy. The movie even manages to explore serious issues about fractured families, new parents, and adolescent sexuality with honesty... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jamie Lee Curtis - Lindsay Lohan - Mark Harmon Director(s): Mark Waters (VIII) DVD Release Date: Released the 16 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you are one of Hilary Duff's most ardent pre-teen fans, chances are you'll find something to enjoy in A Cinderella Story, but everyone else should proceed with caution. It's an updated fairy tale for the age of instant messaging, which is how Sam (Duff) develops a crush on Austin (Chad Michael Murray) before realizing that this Tennyson-quoting poet-at-heart is actually her San Fernando Valley high school's star quarterback and most desirable hunk. In a role that squanders her proven comedic gifts, Jennifer Coolidge is Sam's Botox-injected evil stepmother, and lame attempts at comedy turn her dimwitted stepsisters into buffoons, like many of the other cast members who struggle to find anything funny in the screenplay. So we're left with the bland, blonde charms of Hilary... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Mark Rosman DVD Release Date: Released the 19 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you're a ten-year-old girl, this sequel to Disney's 2001 hit will completely transfix you. How could it not? Bubbly Mia (Anne Hathaway), the American teenager who in the first film learned she was actually European royalty, finishes college and--whoosh!--heads off to Genovia, where he's given a closet full of fabulous clothes and jewelry in preparation to rule the kingdom under the tutelage of grandmother Julie Andrews. Throw in a horse and a volatile but innocent romantic attraction to the dreamy young stud (Chris Pine) who's also vying for the throne, and you have the kind of stuff that prepubescent girls rhapsodize about at slumber parties. Oh--and there's a slumber party here, too, featuring a bevy of cute, international young princesses mattress-surfing down a giant slide.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Anne Hathaway - Julie Andrews - Callum Blue Director(s): Garry Marshall DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Jennifer Garner glows like a rising star in 13 Going on 30, a girly version of the Tom Hanks classic Big. Jenna (Garner, Alias, Daredevil), a frustrated teenage girl, just wants to skip past all those annoying adolescent years and arrive at a glamorous adulthood--and thanks to some inexplicable wishing dust, she does. But once she reorients herself to a life as a high-end magazine editor with a sports-star boyfriend, she discovers that in the 17 years she skipped she became a not-so-nice person, including casting aside her best friend Matt (played as an adult by Mark Ruffalo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). There's no question that Jenna will rediscover her lost innocence, but Garner rises above the lack of suspense. 13 Going on 30 floats... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Gary Winick DVD Release Date: Released the 03 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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