So much average

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I've never seen the original version of this movie but it seems like a decent-ish idea for a movie. A mother of ten and a father of eight get married and hijinks of course ensue within the over packed household. Nothing special but its an idea that would probably merit a watch if nothing was on television and you needed to distract your kids for a while, with the bonus of originally starring the legendary Lucielle Ball and Henry Fonda. So let's take that and replace it Rene Russo (best known for generic action movies and a bit part in Thor) and Dennis Quaid (the guy who you're always surprised is related to an Academy Award winning actor like Randy Quaid) and hire all the most prominent tweenybopper actors that no one will remember in ten years (thank you, Nickelodeon Studios). Bing bang boom, its Yours, Mine, and Ours. It's hard to describe and even imagine how such a generic and seemingly simple to handle story could devolve into such a morally bankrupt movie. A lot of this is attributed to the characters. Pretty much all of them, from kid A to kid R, are just the kind of kids who even the most forgiving of parents would consider bringing back the belt. The kids that the story actually focuses around are Phoebe, Christina, Dylan, and William, who are actively plotting to split their parents up because...they don't like each other? Great motive, kids, split up a pair of people who love each other because you don't like their kids. This later gets dropped in favor of that now they hate Quaid's parenting (even...Quaid's kids...what?) and focus all their efforts around sabotaging Quaid specifically. These kids get very little development because frankly the movie seems to want to do every single high school cliché with them--Will is trying to get elected for class president but he's not doing it COOOOL enough, Phoebe's boyfriend is trying to hit on Christina out of nowhere, and Dylan is just lurking around the background being a sub-par Drake Bell character. The rest of the kids have the grand honor of being there for nothing more than unfunny slapstick that might as well have a guy going "Wah Wah Waaaaahhhhhaahahah' in the background. While these kids are annoying, I'll give them credit that they're nothing on the batshit insane performance that Russo and Quaid turned in. The movie is trying very hard to push the advocacy of less firm parenting and less discipline by making Quaid look like some comical bad guy in his hardass military style parenting. The problem is, if any group of kids needed their asses smacked into 'ship shape', its Russo's kids. They basically ruin the house with some sort of paint explosion (which Russo's character bends over backwards to blame Quaid for, even claiming he BRAINWASHED them to organize her work room) and then throw a raging kegger when the two go out to a ceremony. Again, Russo seems well and good to forgive this despite the obvious underage drinking, BMX biking down her stairs, and someone ordering over 300 dollars worth of pizza that she's probably going to end up billed for.All of this is in the spirit of 'breaking them up' but Russo will have no such thing as discipline for the fact that her kids just tore her house apart and ordered what looked to be three kegs of alcohol. Even when her kids ADMIT that they were actively trying to split her and her husband up, the best she can manage is a dull whisper of shock (with of course no punishment for the kids). In the face of these kids' actions, Quaid's hardcore parenting style seems far more reasonable than Russo's hippy dippy approach. When he threatens to send everyone in the party to military school I was quietly hoping that all of Russo and Quaid's awful kids would go with them--they sure could use it with the way they behave. And I don't even like military school as a behavioral correction method. By the end of the movie I wasn't hoping for this family to stay together. I was hoping for Quaid to pick up his kids, get the hell out, and leave Russo's family to destroy itself with its sheer idiocy. Either that or take up that hammer threat. This is poorly directed movie blind to what its saying, trying to cover that fact up with a bizarre politically correct recasting and a sappy ending that felt like every character was forced to play into. I wouldn't watch it again and I wouldn't really be keen on letting kids watch it either. Bad acting, bad messages, and just an overall bad feel. Stay away from this movie.

According to Roger Ebert's 2005 review, he thought a lot of the movie was contrived. I disagree. Yes, it's predictable, but that is a given in this kind of family movie. For a while, I thought this was not going to be anything special, but all the expected things that could, and do, happen, make this entertaining. Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo are no Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, but they do have chemistry, which Ebert thought they didn't have. This is basically the same movie as Cheaper by the Dozen, so what in the world was he (and most critics) expecting? If you are looking for another of that movie, you won't be disappointed. *** out of ****

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.

I give this movie a 10 all the way. For one great story line. I mean a widower reunites with a widow each has a bundle of kids, they get married and move into a huge lighthouse. The kids hate each other, and plan to break up their parents, but in the process they end up liking each other. You will have to see the movie to get what I am trying to say.Two, HAWK NELSON PLAYS IN IT!!! They are the best band ever. Come on, They're punk, they're Christian, Jason Dunn is HOT, actually all of them are hot. That's why I give this movie a 10 all the way!!!