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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumMartin and Hunt are exactly the right lively but not sticky authority figures to keep the house (and the comedy pace) bouncing.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLighthearted fun.
- 60Village VoiceEd ParkVillage VoiceEd ParkSolidifying his funnyman rep, Ashton Kutcher appears as oldest child Piper Perabo's model-actor boyfriend, a delightfully brainless narcissist.
- 60Chicago ReaderHank SartinChicago ReaderHank SartinBe forewarned: this comedy bears only the faintest resemblance to the classic book and film of the same name.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThanks 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.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAs synthetic as a plastic Christmas tree.
- 40VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerUnfortunately 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.
- 38New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThere is not a frame of "Cheaper" that doesn't feel contrived. It fails the most fundamental test of movie logic.
- 38New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannCan be summed up by the fact that Ashton Kutcher, making a glorified cameo as a narcissistic model-slash-actor, is the best thing in it.
- 30Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyDallas ObserverRobert WilonskyNothing happens. At all. Ever. Remember when Steve Martin was funny? Apparently, neither does he.