Third version of 'Cheaper by the Dozen' won't make you forget the others, even if you haven't seen them.
Brace yourself for copious mugging, every beat at a pitch. The aggressive perkiness is exhausting. Perhaps it’s all appropriately engineered for its target audience, whomever that may be.
What really saps any hope of likability is that it’s actually not about family or parenting or even the kids, and certainly not the extraordinary, every-day challenges of raising such a large brood. The house is eerily clean and quiet for containing 10 children. While financial struggles are instantaneously cured by a deus ex machina, the emotional toll of such a daunting task is hardly acknowledged. And the inner lives of the kids are barely explored. They’re props, more or less.
“Thanks for being so average and relatable, Paul,” spoken by one of the kids, is one of the few funny lines, but it’s also apropos on a meta level: Paul seems to have been focus-grouped into the statistically average, nonthreatening, nice-guy model. Braff and Union are appealing performers with honed comic timing; Braff’s delivery and physical comedy are still there and Union is fun to watch. But there’s no chemistry — seemingly by design. Probably limbo-ing under some clinically tested level of sexy thought, with no visceral attraction allowed. There’s one moment in which they contemplate getting it on, but it’s quickly torpedoed by all those ain’t-they-cute kids piling on their bed.
The film manages a few crumbs of social commentary, as when Zoey tells her young Black kids they can’t take their toy guns out of the house, immediately followed by images of white kids doing just that. But that’s not explored or even explained for those who might need to hear that that’s a thing.steals scenes, this time as a “Karen"-type neighbor.
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