Tram Town
Saturday, January 24, 2004
| Category: Fillums Cheaper by the Dozen is nowhere near as bad as some of the crits would have you believe. Judging by the crowd up at Airport West this afternoon, when I saw it, and the box office receipts numbers for the last month or so, it maximises Bums-On-Seats as well as the more difficult technical award Booms-In-Shot - right from the get-go. In fact a Google search on "microphone cheaper dozen" is a goldmine of comments. In eye-candy terms, with Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, and Hilary Duff, there's something for everyone from 8 to 80. Of course, these people bring enough acting cred, which is clearly visible on screen (just below the microphones usually), to make it work despite the $zero post-production budget. I'm sure that with a little bit more effort at the edit stage and a few more minutes of screen time, this could have been a really good movie rather than a bearable peice of fluff that the kids loved. 6/10 Just One Guy's Opinion. |
