Steve Martin returns as the proud patriarch of the Baker family
in this sequel to the original Cheaper by the Dozen.
For those who did not know, the Baker family is essentially a family
of human-rodent hybrids, having twelve progenies to its claim —
hence the title. This time, all twelve Baker kids and their parents,
Tom (Steve 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.
Unfortunately, much of Tom's goodwill is deflated as his old high
school rival Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) is now a filthy rich property
owner who owns much of the surrounding area, and raising his large
family in a huge home across the lake from the Bakers’. The
longstanding feud between the two families — or at least that
of the fathers — mounts over the course of their vacation,
as the two men resort to ever nastier tactics of one-upsmanship.
Meanwhile, the offsprings are engaged in romantic entanglements
of their own, adding more consternation to already frenzied paternal
pie-throwing.
Well, watch it if you really have to.