Cheaper by the Dozen

good movie

Freakin love this movie always have

great film all around! should receive it tomorrow. my only compliant: if you purchase the movie, any movie here on amazon, you should be able to watch it, the whole thing, on Amazon Instant Video. im not able too. (im not sure about other customers) but yeah, amazon, thatd be nice, to hold customers over if they want to see the movie they purchased that particular day instead of waiting another week to receive it in the mail. thanks. all in all, a fantastic movie, laugh out loud. another classic from when i was a child to add to my collection.

Awesome family movie. I used to watch it with my sister (10 years my junior), was feeling a little nostalgic aand was not disappointed in watxhing this again.

This was just painful to watch. Its beyond slapstick. Its a frantic, frenzied living mad-house catastrophe for most of the movie. I come from a large family and have known people with 12 children and it is nothing like this. Even from a comical take on a large family, this is stupidly unreal. Thrown in for reasons apparent only to the director are these drama moments that dont fit in the least. Its like a drunk slicer at the film lab combined two different movies. It could have been a good family story had they developed a great story around the drama moments, but if they were aiming for a comedy it missed the mark. Some of the rapid fire, exaggerated moments flashing by in split seconds involve playing hockey in a gorgeous 12-bedroom home with first one child swinging from a chandelier, then child with adult until the entire chandelier breaks loose shattering all over the floor, with hordes of kids (all fighting and smart aleck) racing down the stairs on roller skates and skate boards. No damage whatsoever to the floors and the parents are eternally good natured, and dopey happy through it all. Thats only one scene. It goes on like this----on and on and on. things are constantly breaking, crashing, spilling, kids banging on doors with sticks, bats and even a hatchet, yet the house is unbelievably well decorated with no signs of wear and tear. None of the kids fit in with their new school; Dad gets his dream job; Mom gets a book published. But nothing goes right for either of them and SUDDENLY, the family and marriage is---WHOA!!- in a crisis! Everybody suddenly has a whole different personality and it goes from chaotic slapstick and good happiness to heavy drama. What?!? In the end its all group hugs and philosophical sugar laden sweetness and sap. And during this end, as if by magic, ALL the daily and nightly mayhem just stops. Stops and vanishes without. trace. No mayhem; no crashing; kids are pulling together. Its suddenly all quiet. The house is in perfect condition. Extremely unbelievable in a bad way. The chaos is over played; the sugar-sweet is forced, unbelievable and doesnt fit with the chaos at all. Its like they walked through the looking glass and became an entirely different movie. Obviously Im in the great minority. But this is a loser.

Very cute movie love the cast.

There are very few good family movies that appeals to multiple ages at the same time. My children have loved these movies when they were little and as teens. Good clean humor!

I try to buy a new movie for my Kindle Fire every month, and Im a big fan of some of the remakes that came out in the 80s. Ive always loved the original movie and cast, and only in the last few years learned this movie was based on a true story about the Gilbreth family. Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy are a hard act to follow but Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt are equally talented.

Good family movie.

the parents seem to have everything under control but its only when they are together. I love the antics of the dozen. Makes me wish I had come from a large family