{"id":2449,"date":"2005-12-21T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/12\/cheaper-by-the-dozen-2-and-language\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T12:11:00","slug":"cheaper-by-the-dozen-2-and-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/12\/cheaper-by-the-dozen-2-and-language.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Cheaper by the Dozen 2<\/a><\/i> opens today, and while I did write a brief review<\/a> of the first film two years ago, I haven\u2019t got much to say about the new one. I do, however, want to comment on one tiny detail.<\/span><\/p>\n

I appreciate the fact that this film has characters saying \u201cOh my goodness\u201d and \u201cOh my gosh\u201d instead of \u201cOh my God.\u201d But the film\u2019s carefulness in this area does make it all the more disappointing when, later on, a random bystander barks the phrase \u201cSweet Jesus!\u201d at the sight of one man putting his arm around another man.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if we are supposed to take this particular comment as a mere passing profanity (which would be bad enough, thankyouverymuch, and I\u2019d have been happier if I hadn\u2019t had to hear it, especially with my imaginary kids in tow), or if we are supposed to believe that the person in question really has the real Jesus on the brain (which would arguably be even worse, since it would mean the film\u2019s only token Christian is explicitly identified with homophobic bigotry). But either way, it ain\u2019t good.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s nothing really<\/i> gay going on when the man puts his arm around the other man. It\u2019s all just a big misunderstanding. It\u2019s the sort of thing that happened to Danny Kaye and Dana Andrews on a public bus in Up in Arms<\/a><\/i> back in 1944, when they wanted to talk to Dinah Shore and Constance Dowling but couldn\u2019t be seen fraternizing with women of higher military rank, and so they pretended to be talking to each other, instead.<\/p>\n

FWIW, I believe that scene was criticized by Vito Russo in The Celluloid Closet<\/a><\/i>, and I know some critics said that a similar scene in Bad Boys II<\/a><\/i> (2003), which also ended with a person barking the word \u201cJesus\u201d, was \u201chomophobic\u201d, too \u2014 but Cheaper by the Dozen 2<\/i> director Adam Shankman is a gay man, so there\u2019d presumably be nothing homophobic about this<\/i> variation on that old gag.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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