This man will say yes to any role it seems, he and Sam Jackson are in good company. But that’s only a piece of this maggot pie. There’s the typically awful performance by Hilary Duff who is forced into center stage, Tom Welling once again staggering around in his usual stilted performance, engaging in a cheesy “Romeo & Juliet” plot with Jamie King, and the typically predictable center plot of a rival family with as much kids as these bozos competing for no other reason than the writers were out of ideas.

Not to mention, the typical adolescents battling well meaning but inept parents malarkey we’ve seen time and time again. And then, rather than focus on the children, director Shankman centers the film entirely around physical outtakes from nearly the entire cast, and the usual glib one-liners from Bonnie Hunt which have now become a fail safe. She can deliver one-liners, but the one-liners have to actually be funny to enjoy the actress. Beyond these evident errors, “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” is an obvious cash in with Steve Martin slumming yet again. There’s really nothing I can say about “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” that any normal person can’t see already.