Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Eugene Levy co-stars as the patriarch of a rival family of eight children. Carmen Electra portrays his wife. Two years after Tom Baker resigned from his head coaching position, his family begins to undergo many changes, beginning with Lorraine and her desire to study in New York. Their oldest daughter, Nora, is now married to Bud McNulty and heavily pregnant with their first child. They intend to move to Houston because of his new job promotion. Feeling the family is breaking apart as the children grow up and move away, Tom persuades them to take one last family vacation all
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) the United States on December 21, 2005. Other compositions used in the movie are "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams and Carl Orff's "O Fortuna", among others. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 24% approval rating based on reviews from 118 critics, with an average score of 4.5 out of 10, and the site's consensus reading: "In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity." On Metacritic, which determines a normalized rating from mainstream critics, the film received a score of 46 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Despite initial