SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

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.

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.

Nobody-27 Let's be honest here: there are films which are pretty much an art form such as "Seven Samurai" or "The Grand Illusion" and then there are "just movies": action movies, comedies, sci-fi, recent slew of comic strip/toy movies (least favorite to me) and one badly underrepresented category, which incidentally makes the most money in Hollywood (they did not get the memo though): family movies. Notice I did not call them "films", although to be able to entertain the whole family without blood, gore, sex, violence, war, darkness and such, is quite an achievement today worthy of the name "film".Family movies are meant to entertain the whole family but in an entirely positive, relaxed and children safe way. This film achieved all of those, while many family favorites, we have to admit, do have scenes that make us cringe and are not really appropriate for children (E.g. Indiana Jones series).Within that domain of family entertainment, "Yours, Mine and Ours" is one fine movie. Making a film with 20 kids is bordering with madness - the old adage of Hollywood is "No animals, no children." Making it funny and interesting to watch without resorting to cheap thrills of fast car rides, sex scenes/nudity, guns or simply shallow behavior is commendable. They managed to pull it off with no less than 20 children and a few pets to boot. That in itself deserves praise.The film is a romantic comedy wrapped around tons of kids doing their shenanigans, a new house, pets, and so on. Again, if you are aware that this is a family film, and lower your guard, rather then expect 20 kids to earn Oscars, you will enjoy it.Both Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid were excellent, and truly funny. The kids were funny too (and older ones obviously acted better than their younger "siblings" which is to be expected given the age difference).If you have a child, and would like to have a film to watch, than this would be the one. Children laugh through the entire film, and there is still more than enough for adults to enjoy.For being a daring, well executed and thoroughly enjoyable family fun, I give it 10 stars. Let's hope we get to see more of similar movies in the future.

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.