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Cheaper By The DozenThis fun-filled Cheaper By The Dozen Special Edition has as many extras as the Bakers have kids -- and then some! We've added a houseful of never-before-seen DVD features -- including all-new deleted and extended scenes, hilarious commentaries, exclusive featurettes, both widescreen and full screen viewing options, and a surprise or two!Comedy superstar Steve Martin pairs up with Bonnie Hunt in this family comedy about two loving parents trying to manage careers and a household amid the chaos of raising 12 rambunctious kids!Cheaper By The Dozen 2Steve Martin is funnier than ever in this hilarious sequel! Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) bring their clan together for a memorable summer getaway. But their dream vacation turns into an outrageous competition with the overachieving, overzealous family of Tom's long-time rival, Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy). Featuring all the original Baker kids, including Hilary Duff, Tom Welling and Piper Perabo, this super-sized comedy is fun for the whole family!System Requirements:Running Time: 200 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE
"[2] A family comedy that is actually involving, even believable, and manages to be pretty funny too." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"[2] ...supposed to make people feel good about their families, and it does a fine job of it." Kyle Smith, New York Post
"[1] ...Levy's film features some of the best child actor casting since "The Little Rascals."" Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
"[1] Lighthearted fun." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: College sweethearts Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) both dreamed of having both fulfilling careers and a huge family. But after they had a few kids, Kate gave up her career as a sportswriter, Tom abandoned his hope of becoming the coach of their alma mater's football team, and they moved their brood from the city to the country. Now, after 12 children and a happy life in rural Illinois, Tom has been offered the chance to live his dream and coach the Stallions. No sooner does the family pack up and move to Chicago to pursue Tom's dream job than Kate's ship comes in as well: a publisher has picked up her manuscript based on her experiences raising 12 children. Of course, there's a hitch. Kate has to go to New York for a few days, leaving Tom as the primary caregiver for his clan. Can Tom hold it together with his kids--who didn't want to move in the first place--pulling him one way and the university pulling him the other? Shawn Levy directs this likable update of the 1950 film of the same title, which was based on a true (and very different) story.CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2: Steve Martin returns as the proud patriarch of the Baker family in this sequel to the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, based on the book by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth. This time, all 12 Baker kids and their parents, Tom (Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt), are going on vacation, returning to their summer cabin in Wisconsin for one last hurrah before the kids grow up and go their separate ways. Lorraine (Hilary Duff) is on her way to New York to begin an internship with VOGUE, Nora (Piper Perabo) is hugely pregnant, and the Bakers want to spend some quality time all together for a change. When the family arrives at their old house, however, they realize that some things have changed--and some things never do. Tom's old high-school rival, Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) is now the big man about town, owning much of the surrounding area and raising his large family in a huge home across the lake from the Bakers. The longstanding competition between the two families--or at least of the fathers--mounts as the two men resort to ever nastier tactics of one-upsmanship. Meanwhile, Charlie Baker (Tom Welling) becomes closer with Anne Murtaugh (Jamie King), and Sarah (Alyson Stoner) embarks on her first romance with Eliot Murtaugh (Taylor Lautner). It all comes to a head when the two families face off in a canoeing race and are faced with a choice between loyalty to family and friends--and the competitive edge.
| Features | [1] 4 All-New Featurettes | | [1] 6 Never-Before-Seen Deleted/Extended Scenes | | [1] Audio Commentary By Director Shawn Levy | | [1] Audio Commentary By The Baker Kids | | [1] Featurette: Director's ViewFinder - Extended Version | | [1] More Deleted/Extended Scenes | | [1] Sneak Peeks At Cheaper By The Dozen 2 | | [1] Storyboard-To-Screen Comparison | | [2] Fox Movie Channel Presents Casting Session | | [2] Audio Commentary By Director Adam Shankman | | [2] Featurettes: Camp Chaos & A Comedic Trio | | [2] Theatrical Trailers & More! | | [Both] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | [Both] Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Both] Dubbed: French, Spanish | | [Both] Interactive Menus | | [Both] Scene Selection | | [Both] Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 8/7/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 2235807 | | UPC: 00024543258070 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen/Standard 2.35:1/1.85:1/1.33:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly 8 of 10
[1] In the innocuously chipper family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt represent a new paradigm of two-career sitcom parenthood in a feature-length format: They're sparky gender equals, simultaneously raising their brood of 12 and ogling one another's adult butts to suggest that the two still have a swell sex life and a sense of humor. I wish Martin's Tom and Hunt's Kate would make full use of the comic stars' sardonic specialities. But that ain't scheduled in this sprightly, updated remake of a 1950 movie from a 1948 memoir of growing up in a turn-of-the-century household...The 12-pack includes ''Coyote Ugly'''s Piper Perabo as adult daughter Nora, ''Smallville'''s Tom Welling as the eldest son, and ''Lizzie McGuire'''s Hilary Duff as a teenager who's, like, sooo ready to star in ''Lizzie McGuire.'' - Lisa Schwarzbaum
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
[2] "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is the kind of title, like "The Other Side of the Mountain," that starts you wondering why they didn't call it "This Side of the Mountain." Or, more to the point, "Even Cheaper by Two Dozen"...What I liked the most about the second "Dozen," however, was another performance, the one by Alyson Stoner as their daughter Sarah. As a girl poised on the first scary steps of adolescence, she finds the kind of vulnerability and shy hope that Reese Witherspoon projected in "The Man in the Moon" (1991), which contains a first kiss so sweet you remember it 15 years later...It's a lot better than "Yours, Mine and Ours," which has inexplicably grossed more than $45 million, all of which could have been more usefully dropped into Santa's little red bucket outside the theater. - Roger Ebert
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