Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

aesgaard41 Dennis Quaid is a Coast Guard Commander with eight kids raised with rules and schedules. Rene Russo has four kids and six adopted kids with no rules and a freethinking lifestyle. Faster than you can say "Brady Bunch," these two former loves take a hunch and decide to merge their families. The resulting movie is pretty much as expected, a lot of fighting, arguing and expected destruction. This movie is much more than an update to the Henry Fonda/Lucille Ball; like "The Parent Trap" before it, it's both a reboot and update, something that doesn't always work, but there's also a nice love story behind the kids conspiring to break up their parents marriage and as a result, bond over their duplicitous action. It's quite predictable, but the end result is still worth a look-see. After all, even if you know where you're going, you still want to see the trip that gets there. The only drawback to the movie is that there is not a recognizable face among the kids except for Danielle Panabaker (CSI, Phil Of The Future…) and comedian David Koeschner (Hannah Montana) who appears an acquaintance of the father. It's a small nitpick, but its not enough to bar anyone from renting this movie.

g-bodyl Yours, Mine, and Ours and is fair, unoffensive movie that the whole family could enjoy. It's not the best family movie in the world but its passable because of the charm given off from the two lead actors.This is about two high school sweethearts who reunite thirty years later and get married on the spot. But both people have a large number of children and those children combine forces so they can break up Frank and Helen.The acting is okay. The leads are pretty much what carried this movie. Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo are great actors. I wish that the children had more screen time. I could barely tell them apart.The film should have been paced better. It seems like thirty minutes in, we are already near then end. A better screenplay would have also helped this movie.Overall, this is a fair but not great family film. Kids will certainly enjoy it but adults should stay clear from this film. I rate this film 6/10.

msecour The original version with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball is one of our favorites and I, for one, am glad they didn't try to remake that story with a new cast. This is really a different story built on the same premise: a widow and widower -- each with a lot of children -- fall in love, get married, and the children are suddenly part of a new and much larger family. Unlike the original, the children don't get a chance to see this coming before it happens. The animosity is instantaneous, particularly since the Beardsley children are used to structure and organization in their lives whereas the North children have been very free and loose. The bonding of familial friendships between the children comes through their common purpose -- to destroy the relationship between their parents. There is something very profound about seeing two enemy groups come together for a common goal only to discover that they don't hate each other at all. A lot of the slapstick is over the top, but it is an entertaining 90 minutes with a message that will never grow old. I am glad to have both versions in my library.

dmills9 I found this film funny and a good time. There were a couple points that I thought weren't really suited to this leading man (Quaid), but other than that, the acting was great.I could feel chemistry between 'Mom & Dad' and also the tension between them. The kids also did a great job making the tension real as well as the affection they later have for each other (which we all knew was going to happen, but I'm not bothered by this sort of predictability as most films have many predictable moments and the ones that strive too hard to avoid it usually end up unsatisfying).Although I can't imagine a situation like theirs ever being successful in real life (two large, but vastly different families coming together), this film does very well in making you forget that just for a while.It's a clean film suitable for anybody. The charm, the characters, the story, the chemistry, the hijinks; all worthwhile reasons to watch this one.