PlatinumRead
Just so...so bad
Spoonatects
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues
When you see Clifton Webb go to new School of yous children and trying some advises with the professors is hilarious...the old days was almost like it according my grandfather told me,The Couple Webb and Myrna Loy are fantastic portrait of an generation which no longer exist...firstly by the high number of sons,second the way of education.....and finally by the court 's family to decide something leading by the father as judge...the final was a spoiler of this classic family comedy!!!
TheLittleSongbird
Forget the mediocre Steve Martin remake, this film is the Cheaper By the Dozen to see. Jeannie Crain is a little too old for her role as the oldest daughter that I have to agree with. The rest however is delightful entertainment. There is nothing hilarious here, but some lines and scenes are funny and very pleasant, plus some moments are touching. The film looks great, has a beautiful soundtrack and a story to warm the heart, and it has a script that has its humorous and sweet parts. The film is short but not too short, and it is snappily paced. The children are very believable, Myrna Loy doesn't have as much to do but is suitably warm and sympathetic and Clifton Webb is absolutely wonderful. All in all, still a joy. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Karl Self
I was really forward to this movie. For a number of reasons. First of, I'm a family type of guy and it seemed to be up my street. Then I knew that this movie (and the autobiographic novel behind it) single-handedly created the genre of "large family comedy" (viz The Brady Bunch, etc.) and was eager on seeing the original, which might well have turned out to be the freshest of the fray. Then the plot just seemed promising: a time-and-motion guy having to cope with a chaotic family of thirteen, especially as it was based on a true story. Finally I was looking forward to seeing Myrna Loy, who in this case was promising a strong female lead.OK, well, I was disappointed. This movie was stolid throughout, and the humour pretty lame. Myrna Loy just teletyped her role in, her role consists entirely of looking approvingly at her husband. But worst of all, the movie is often decidedly reactionary. In one scene a birth control advocate is ridiculed for being a birth control advocate. In another, almost breathtakingly un-PC scene that would have made Larry Flint cringe, one of the girls has it explained to her by her heartthrob that he respects her for not putting out because, while he plans to sow as many wild oats as possible before marriage (wink, wink), he will only marry a pure girl. The whore-madonna-complex in living colour.I can see why many people like this movie, it's by no means god-awful, but it was less than I expected.
Neil Doyle
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN is based on the true life experiences of a family with a dozen children, although when watching the film you have to suspect that some of these "events" were embellished for the sake of laughs rather than accuracy. And Clifton Webb, in stiff collar and still bossing everyone around, reminds one of Mr. Belevedere with a family.Still, he's the main reason for watching this highly sentimental illusion of what family life was like in America in the early 20th century. The film itself is no more than a series of vignettes, just glimpses of humorous minor events that happened in a family where the father ruled the roost while the mother (MYRNA LOY) took care of the children and her husband, not necessarily in that order.MYRNA LOY and JEANNE CRAIN (as the oldest daughter), don't have much to do and Crain is a bit simpering and coy in a role she was really too old to play. But most of the kids have some good moments and it's all over in a brisk 86 minutes, so no need to squabble about too many dull moments.If you like CLIFTON WEBB as an eccentric and overbearing efficiency expert, you'll get a lot of amusement from this one.
