Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
The Baker family, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a formulaic sequel that retreads familiar family-comedy territory with little to distinguish it. The rivalry-vacation plot is thin and predictable, the acting is serviceable but unremarkable from its ensemble cast, the cinematography is bland and TV-movie in quality, and the ending resolves conflicts in the most expected way imaginable. As a sequel that recycles the first film's premise with minimal creative ambition, it earns a very low Novelty score — it is genuinely derivative and by-the-numbers throughout.