SnoopyStyle Coast Guard Rear Admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) returns to his hometown of New London to run the Coast Guard Academy. He's a widower and runs a tight ship with his 8 kids. While on a date, he runs into his childhood sweetheart artist Helen White-North (Rene Russo) who has 10 children and on a date of her own. She's also a widower and adopted 6 of her kids. They reconnect, quickly marries and move into the big lighthouse from their past. Frank brings along his housekeeper Mrs. Munion (Linda Hunt). The kids don't get along and decide to join forces to split up the couple.There are just so many kids. There are so many of them that most remain nameless unknown figures to me. The two oldest girls have a good side story but that's rare. The older kids have some more things to do but the kids become a blob mass. I like the general outline of the movie. It doesn't have much comedy that works but the story is a little heart warming. That is until the last act when I lose all interest in the movie. The whole movie is so predictable on auto pilot and I didn't care so much about the individual characters.

Steve Pulaski Besides having two punctuations in one simple title, Yours, Mine, and Ours has to be one of the most annoying remakes I've seen in recent years. Friday the 13th was a pretty annoying one, but because of context not content. How can anyone stay sane when there are eighteen kids running around, hyper speed for ninety tedious minutes? Jo Frost would lose her mind in this ruckus.Yours, Mine, and Ours is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. Having never seen the original, from what I understand both films have eighteen kids, and the only major differences are the actors. Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda are replaced with Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid along with the kids which I won't take time explaining. But lets just say that coming from a teenager who doesn't want kids, this film was absolutely frightening.Frank Beardsley is a US Coast Guard Admiral widower who is managing eight kids. Helen North works as a designer and she has ten kids. Frank and Helen where sweethearts in High School, and are reunited after 25 years. After learning about each others kids they come up with the brilliant idea to marry and raise a family of eighteen. My first thought would be get the f**k out! Of course when raising eighteen kids of all different age groups the first thing that should come to your mind is let the kids meet and see if they form a tight bond. If not, maybe marriage isn't going to work. Nope. Not necessary. Without even consulting the kids (if you call a five minute estimated family talk when no kids can change the folks mind a consulting then okay) they make the indulgent move of marrying anyway. What a fun house. No one but the parents have any say in something that will effect their own life.So naturally, when the kids first meet everything goes haywire and fighting, bickering, hitting, beating, and arguing come constantly. The biggest problem is that Frank is shipshape (pun intended) and Helen lets the kids have freedom. Disciplined kids, free kids. Not seeing a very good connection. Maybe they should've RECONSIDERED marriage, and production on this film as well.The plus for the film was seeing both Drake Bell and Miranda Cosgrove in it. They worked for years on Drake & Josh and I've always favored both of them. I lost touch and interest with Drake Bell after he quit Drake & Josh , and as far as Miranda Cosgrove goes, once the first ten or so episodes of iCarly aired...lets leave it at that.One thing that angered me more than the film itself was Cartoon Network, the network I watched the film on. Not the fact that it was loaded with commercials, but how two big "C" and "N" mascots were popping up during the commercials. We're led to believe these bulky, headless annoyances are watching the movie with us and just getting off track? Why not make it believable and have the mascots actually say something that happens in the movie rather than have them ranting about turkey leftovers and football. Also the number of commercials making the viewers aware about "exercising" and "eating a healthy meal" uncountable and an even bigger annoyance than the mascots. Has childhood obesity become that much of a big deal that commercials alerting viewers of it's occurrence need to be on every kid's network. If kids are watching a movie on Cartoon Network, do you think they'll drop everything (in the middle of the movie" and dash outside to the nearest park and play a game? Logical, like the mascot's heads, is absent Yours, Mine, and Ours is what you would expect of a remake. A loud, overly cliché, annoying state of affairs that has Dennis Quaid being hit off a boat, in the head, or into a can of paint one too many times to be passable. I've been known to enjoy slapstick like the works of Carrot Top and Chris Farley, although I have standards set for where I want my slapstick. Being hit in the head five times or more in a single movie is way past my standards.Starring: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Sean Faris, Jerry O'Connell, Drake Bell, Miranda Cosgrove, Lil' JJ, Danielle Panabaker. Directed by: Raja Gosnell.

xxxx_luca_xxxx The original "Yours, Ours, & Mine", which is a good movie on its own was not the same movie so why didn't they just call it a different movie. The movie break down, Yours...Ours...Mine, they forgot the mine part. Man & Woman meet, fall in love, meet each others children. Who would not meet their soon to be mate's children, before saying "I do"? So, is their going to be a Yours, mine, & ours part 2. To bring in the ours part, look at the original movie to help you make it. I like this movie, I really do...but they changed so many things. They might have just called it: Mine versus Yours or Mine & Yours, sometimes its good to change some of the original movie in a remake but not even mention the our part...wonder minds.

duraflex Where to begin with a movie this bad. Bad premise, bad rewrite, bad directing, bad movie. I could hardly wait for it to be over.The original 1968 version of "Yours, Mine and Ours" was bad enough. It spawned the BRADY BUNCH TV Show which ran for 5 years so the concept has been pretty well played out.YMO 2005 "Parents" Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo have zero chemistry together on screen. I kept seeing her as Natasha from the Rocky & Bullwinkle movie of 1999.This remake has every stupid cliché and goes overboard in trying to make the organized father look like an idiot time and time again. He gets wacked overboard on his own sailboat, gets paint spilled on him and other stupid stuff along the same lines.Meanwhile, the kumbaya wacko, talking-stick mother apparently uses no discipline in her parenting regime and that is offered as the only acceptable methodology.Throughout, the designer-mother's free-thinking, no-rules household is promoted as the ideal and the more disciplined, buttoned-down Admiral's parenting style is portrayed as deficient and flawed.The mother's family of 10 kids turns out to have 6 adopted of every race which is even less realistic than "blending" a family of 18 kids in the first place. Of course the movie ends with one enormous family that wants to be together. A better ending would have been if Russo and Quaid had come to their senses and gotten divorced. Other than some nice shots of the boats on the water and some good music, the movie has nothing to recommend it.Save your time and money.