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Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2022 American family-comedy film. It is the third film adaptation of the 1948 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and his sister Ernestine Gilbreth Carey following the 1950 and 2003 films. The film is directed by Gail Lerner in her feature-length directorial debut with a script co-written by Kenya Barris and Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, Shawn Levy returning to serve as the executive producer, and starring Gabrielle Union, Zach Braff, Erika Christensen, and Timon Kyle Durratt.

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Cheaper by the Dozen
Official release poster
Directed by	Gail Lerner
Screenplay by	Kenya Barris Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry
Story by	Craig Titley Kenya Barris Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry
Based on	Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Produced by	Kenya Barris
Starring	Gabrielle Union Zach Braff Erika Christensen Timon Kyle Durrett
Cinematography	Mitchell Amundsen
Edited by	Troy Takaki
Music by	John Paesano
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures[lower-alpha 1] Khalabo Ink Society[1]
Distributed by	Disney+
Release dates	March 16, 2022 (2022-03-16) (El Capitan Theatre) March 18, 2022 (2022-03-18) (United States)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Cheaper by the Dozen had its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre on March 16, 2022, and was released on Disney+ on March 18. The film was met with mixed reviews.

Plot

The Bakers are a blended family that began with Paul Baker and his wife Kate who together had daughters Ella and Harley and their adopted son Haresh after their friends died in a car accident. Kate eventually divorced Paul, but they remained friends with Kate acting as an occasional, though slightly inattentive, babysitter.

Zoey married football player Dominic "Dom" Clayton and had daughter Deja and son DJ. Due to Dom's celebrity life, Zoey divorced him and took custody of the kids. Paul met Zoey after she visited his small restaurant and suggested that he make the entire menu breakfast themed all day. The two eventually got married, expanded the restaurant, renamed it Baker's Breakfast and had two sets of twins: Luca and Luna, and Bronx and Bailey.

Dom continues to be active in Deja and DJ's lives which slightly intimidates Paul as he was rarely there to begin with. While Deja prepares for her basketball scholarship, DJ feels that he connects with Paul more than Dom and would rather speak with him. Paul gets a meeting with a large company to expand his restaurant. He succeeds and has his famous sauce sold on shelves. He decides to use the money to move the family and their pet dogs Bark Obama and Joe Bitin' from Los Angeles to Calabasas, in a bigger house in a gated community.

Upon arrival, Zoey begins to feel the effects of racial profiling, especially after meeting her neighbor Anne. Paul suddenly gets a call informing him that his sister Rachel has checked into rehab, forcing him to take in his nephew Seth, who has had a habit of being a thief. Seth bonds with Haresh when he discovers that he is being picked on at the new school because of his ethnicity and teaches him to defend himself while making monster spray for his younger cousins. While not being used a lot on the Hornets basketball team, Deja begins seeing a boy named Chris and sneaks out of the house to see him.

Paul finds himself having to travel to look for new places to expand his restaurant. The investors Melanie and Michele also insist on altering some of his business ideals to cut costs. He starts to miss out on being with his family which upsets Zoey as this was the reason she divorced Dom. On DJ's birthday, Paul rushes to get home. During the party, things start to get out of hand as DJ changes his look to impress a girl, Haresh and Seth are suspended from school for a week after starting a fight with the kids who bullied Haresh, and Anne profiles Zoey's family for a series of recent break-ins. Upon Paul arriving, Deja reveals that she quit the basketball team and that the entire family has been unhappy since arriving in Calabasas. Feeling that Zoey can no longer handle their kids, Dom announces that he wants full custody of Deja and DJ.

Harley and Ella accuse Seth of the break-ins after Haresh pointed out that he saw him stealing from the restaurant cash register, though he returned it and he angrily leaves. After telling Paul and Zoey they explain the money is from DCFS and they have been giving it to Seth and that someone broke into Anne house during the party while Seth was grounded. Upon realizing their mistake, the Bakers, Kate, and Dom all go out and find Seth. They apologize and admit that he is part of the family and he rejoins them.

Back at home, Paul and Dom discuss their different upbringings; while Paul will never know what it is like to be at a disadvantage, Dom has to understand that being away from his kids has made him distant and that he needs to be more attentive. Realizing how much his family means to him, Paul breaks his deal with the company so that he can run the restaurant himself. The Bakers move back to Los Angeles and buy a new house while the children returned to their old schools as Deja returns to her basketball team which beat the Hornets. While having dinner, or rather breakfast, at the newly named Baker's Dozen Breakfast, Paul reveals the design of the sauce bottle has changed to reflect the family, Seth included.

A postscript states that Dom, Paul, and Zoey were able to invest their sauce and went National. Kate invented bird yoga which only birds liked. Seth moved back in with his mom after she got out of rehab, but still spends lots of time with his cousins. Deja and Chris soon started their freshman years at USC. Ella became the social manager for Harley's punk band and a video of her band playing at her school talent show broke the internet. Luna and Luca won the tennis national under 12 division becoming like Venus and Serena. DJ, Talia, and Dom went to Comic-Con and bonded while Dom realized he liked Thor.

Cast

Production

In 2016, it was reported that Kenya Barris would work with 20th Century Fox on a remake of Cheaper by the Dozen.[2] On August 6, 2019, following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that a reboot of Cheaper by the Dozen was in development and that it would premiere on the company's streaming service, Disney+.[3][4] Gail Lerner was set to direct the film with a script co-written by Kenya Barris and Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry,[5] and Regina Hall was in talks to join the cast in April 2020.[6] Principal photography was scheduled to commence on July 13, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.[7] After filming was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Disney's new CEO Bob Chapek announced that filming had resumed in November 2020.[8] The film was revealed at the Disney Investors Day, along with the casting of Gabrielle Union.[9][10]

In January 2021, Zach Braff joined the cast.[11][12][13][14][15] In February 2021, Journee Brown, Kylie Rogers, Andre Robinson, Caylee Blosenski, Aryan Simhaldri, Leo Abelo Perry, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Christian Cote, Sebastian Cote, and Luke Prael joined the cast as the pair's children.[16] Erika Christensen would be added to the cast in April.[17] Filming had begun in Los Angeles by April 2021.[18]

Shawn Levy, who previously directed the 2003 film adaptation, was confirmed in 2021 to be an executive producer on the film.[19]

Music

John Paesano composed the musical score. The soundtrack was released on March 18, 2022, by Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records.[20]

Release

On November 12, 2021, the film was revealed to be released in March 2022.[21] On February 7, 2022, with the release of the official trailer, it was revealed that it would be digitally released on March 18, 2022, on Disney+.[22] The film had its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre on March 16.[23]

Additionally, the film was released on Disney+ under Walt Disney Pictures instead of 20th Century Studios, after being moved from 20th Century for unknown reasons sometime during production, making it the third 20th Century Studios film to do so during production after Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

Reception

Audience viewership

According to Whip Media, Cheaper by the Dozen was the 5th most streamed movie across all platforms, in the United States, during the week of March 18, 2022 to March 20, 2022.[24]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 35% of 37 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's consensus reads, "Cheaper by the Dozen adds some modern twists to its oft-adapted story, but fresh laughs are few and far between."[25] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 42 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[26]

Variety stated: "Despite some of this movie’s missteps, the heart behind its messages is in the right place. Sentiments dealing with co-parenting after divorce and prioritizing family above monetary success may seem old fashioned on the surface. Yet it goes deeper, exploring and challenging our societal system’s gross inequities and injustices in a thoughtful, meaningful manner."[27] IGN rated the movie 6 out of 10, stating, "Disney's latest reboot of Cheaper by the Dozen, starring Zach Braff and Gabrielle Union, can be as haphazard as its premise."[28] The Guardian rated the movie 3 out of 5 stars, stating, "As with the 2003 film, the gist of Disney Plus’s remake is cheerful domestic chaos molded into light didacticism: the importance of the nuclear family (albeit a blended one, in this update) with reminders to not get blinded by financial success or the lure of growth."[29] Screen Rant gave the movie 2.5 out of 5 stars, saying "Cheaper by the Dozen is a fluffy family drama that ultimately doesn’t amount to anything. [...] It is great that this blended family is so diverse, but if there is no thoughtful integration of their stories, they remain merely set dressing."[30]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Cheaper by the Dozen on Disney+
• Cheaper by the Dozen at IMDb 

На других языках

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- [en] Cheaper by the Dozen (2022 film)

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[it] Un'altra scatenata dozzina

Un'altra scatenata dozzina (Cheaper by the Dozen) è un film del 2022 diretto da Gail Lerner. Il progetto è stato ispirato dalla famiglia Gilbreth nella vita reale e dal racconto semi-autobiografico delle loro vite come scritto nel romanzo del 1948 Cheaper by the Dozen di Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. e sua sorella Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

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