Yours, Mine & Ours
Yours, Mine & Ours
PG | 23 November 2005 (USA)
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Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.

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Kidskycom

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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FuzzyTagz

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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PiraBit

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Dana

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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clhpurchases

The movie was terribly rewritten. The original movie starring Lucille Ball was based on the story Helen Beardsley wrote after being widowed and then marrying a man with 10 children. This movie has a father who seemingly has control and flighty ditsy woman who has no control over her children or her life and can only handle life when it is in chaos. It would have been better had they just remade the Lucille Ball version of the movie without feeling the need to rewrite 90% of the scrit.

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Miss Naughtia

This is a great movie for a family nigh in, it has great actors and a funny story. Although I couldn't help thinking that everything was made out to be much more chaotic than it had to be (for instance the paint fight). Otherwise this movie was very entertaining.This movie is about a widow and a widower who have a big flock of children each. When these two meet again at a class reunion they fall in love and decide to get married and this creates a great conflict because the two large families must merge together to become one even larger family.I love Dennis Quaid and this was a great performance from his side.

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anndumenigo

This movie was great! At the first showing...in the car DVD the kids weren't that into it...in fact we've owned the movie a year! They all of a sudden got it back out and now they watch it at least once a week. They laugh and laugh! I liked the original of course, I'm a big Lucy fan, but for the modern world...this one works for my kids, they are the toughest critics! They really liked the crazy family the North kids. We are a military family so it was humorous to see the military Beardsley kids with their dad. The best parts....the middle, with all the schemes to break up the parents. The worst part...the part where she is crying in her room at the beginning of the movie....kids didn't get that part. oh! Is there really an old lighthouse just sitting around vacant, waiting for a big family to move in? oh well....

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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.

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