Rating: Half-full

 

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn, Linda Hunt, Jerry O’Connell, Josh Henderson and David Koechner

 

Director: Raja Gosnell

 

Writers: Ron Burch and David Kidd

 

Based on: the 1968 motion picture screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman

 

Producers: Robert Simonds and Michael Nathanson

 

Music by: Christophe Beck

 

Favorite Character: Dylan White-Beardsley

 

Tagline: 18 kids, one house, no way.

 

Rated: PG for some mild crude humor

 

Quote: “It’s time for us to call a truce. None of us likes this situation, but if we want to win out we need to unite against the greater enemy. That enemy’s name is Mom and Dad.”- William Beardsley

 

Fun Facts: Drake Bell and Miranda Cosgrove played brother and sister in the Nickelodeon kid’s show Drake & Josh.

 

The party band in the movie is a Christian alternative rock band called Hawk Nelson.

 

In the 1968 original film, Frank Beardsley (portrayed by ‘Henry Fonda (I)’) was an active duty US Navy Chief Warrant Officer (a rank between commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers, usually granted to expert technical specialists with extensive experience), while in this remake, Frank Beardsley is a retired US Coast Guard Admiral.

 

The Review: So the reboot of cheaper by the dozen is great but this one is just a ripoff. There doesn’t seem to be jokes in the film. It is a must for our dear old nickelodeon fans. Use this family film wisely.