Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Steve Martin returns as the proud patriarch of the Baker family in this sequel to the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN based on a book by Frank B Gilbreth Jr & Ernestine Gilbreth This time all twelve Baker kids & their parents Tom (Martin) & Kate (Bonnie Hunt) are going on vacation returning to their summer cabin in Wisconsin for one last hurrah before the kids grow up & go their separate ways Lorraine (Hilary Duff) is on her way to New York to begin an internship with VOGUE Nora (Piper Perabo) is hugely pregnant & the Bakers want to spend some quality time all together for a change As the family arrives at their old house however they realise that some things have changed & some things never do Tom&s old high school rival Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) is now the big man about town owning much of the surrounding area & raising his large family in a huge home across the lake from the Bakers& The longstanding competition between the two families or at least that of the fathers mounts over the course of their vacation as the two men resort to ever nastier tactics of one-upsmanship Meanwhile Charlie Baker (Tom Welling) becomes closer with Anne Murtaugh (Jamie King) & Sarah (Alyson Stoner) embarks on her first romance with Eliot Murtaugh (Taylor Lautner) It all comes to a head when the two families face off in a canoeing race during which they are faced with a decision between loyalty to family & friends & the competitive edge