January 22

I do love Steve Martin. One of the first films of this Genre-ary was Steve Martin in The Jerk. That was really funny. Cheaper by the Dozen, not so much.

According to IMDB, “With his wife on a book tour, Tom Baker finds his life turned upside down when he agrees to care for his twelve children while simultaneously also coaching his new football team.”

Wow. These kids were brats. That might be harsh, but why not try some discipline? They can’t have all suddenly turned into evil little harpies because they moved away. Both Steve martin and Bonnie Hunt also showed they couldn’t have been good parents because good parents do not just become selfish ones.

There is really not much of a plot in this movie and these kids were acting like a nightmare. None of it made much sense to me, and the idea of this many kids is just insane.

There were a couple giggles during the movie, but the most laughs I had were from the end credit bloopers.

Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt led the cast which included Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Alan Ruck, Richard Jenkins, Kevin G. Schmidt, Piper Perabo, Jacob Smith, Morgan York, Liliana Mumy, Forrest Landis, Blake Woodruff, Brent Kinsman, Shane Kinsman, Wayne Knight, and Ashton Kutcher. There was a cameo from Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa as well.

This felt more like a sitcom than a feature length film. I was also not sure about the message of the film… outside of the “Do you really want children?” one.

I did not hate the film, but there were so many things about it that made me wonder.

And puke jokes… those are not for me.