Corporate Line: When Tom Baker (Martin) gets a job offer to coach football at Northwestern University in Chicago, he and his wife, Mary (Hunt), move to the big city, which is a big change for them and their 12 children, who range from preschool-age twins Kyle and Nigel all the way up to 22-year-old Anne (Perabo) who has already left home. With the recent publication of her long-in-the-works book, Mary feels demands outside the home taking away as much time as Tom’s new job does, so the two are forced to try to find new ways of parenting their massive tribe, but they find their parenting styles aren’t always completely compatible.
The Good: If you are looking for a fun family film and your kids don’t mind finding new pranks to pull; this would be a good film.
The Bad: Many of the kids didn’t have a true role; maybe a sentence or two. They should have had more sets of twins since they would get the same on camera time. Steve Martin didn’t act out of his norm. Bonnie Hunt was no different and Ashton Kutcher proves how weak of an actor he is by continuing to take on roles as idiots.
Frankly: Great for kids, not everyone else.
+ Kim Soth
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