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
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film) Dozen" was remade 53 years later starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. The birth order in which "Cheaper by the Dozen" portrays some of the children is not the same order in which the real Gilbreth children were born. For example, Robert (who was born in 1920) is shown as being born in 1922, as the last child after Jane (who was born in 1922). This is reversed in the movie's sequel. In real life, Mary, who was the second child, died in 1912, aged 5. However, in the film "Cheaper by the Dozen", Mary is placed as the third