Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and baby Tom leave for Houston a few days later while the Bakers continue their vacation at Lake Winnetka. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes ranked "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" 98th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 6% based on 93 reviews of the film. The site's consensus reads " A sequel to a remake, "Cheaper 2" wastes its solid cast in scenes of over-the-top, predictable humor". On Metacritic, it has a score of 34 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". "Chicago Sun-Times" critic Roger Ebert, gave the
Steve Martin U2 in the 200th episode of "The Simpsons" titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson. In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, "The Out-of-Towners". By 2003, Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in "Bringing Down The House" and "Cheaper by the Dozen", each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, "". In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in "Shopgirl", based on his own novella