Studio: Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Columbia Pictures

Rating: 3/5

Yours, Mine and Ours is specifically not a remake of the original film made in 1968. They took the same concept and wrote a different story. On one side we have Coast Guard Admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) who has eight kids. On the other side we have free-spirited fashion designer Helen North (Rene Russo) who has ten kids, six of them adopted.

They were high school sweethearts but their careers took them down separate paths. When they meet again it’s still love and they immediately get married. After that initial setup we get to the real meat of the story – the families move in together and the kids clash. And then the kids decide to solve their problem by breaking up their parents.

I thought this was an ok movie. Sort of like The Brady Bunch but with way too many kids. And really that’s my major problem with the movie: too many characters running around. I guess that as a kids movie it does well but it doesn’t really have much for the adults.

Overall I would probably not recommend this movie.

Extras

1. •Commentary track with Director Raja Gosnell
   

2. •Yours, Mine & Ours – Inside the Lighthouse (behind the scenes, 16 min)
   

3. •18 Kids – One Script: The Writing Of... (5 min)
   

4. •Casting the North Family (comments on each kid actor, 7 min)
   

5. •Casting the Beardsley Family (6 min)
   

6. •Your Big Break! – Advice for Aspiring Young Actors (from casting people and the actors, 6 min)
   

7. •Setting Sail with the Coast Guard (3 min)
   

8. •Behind the Scenes Video Diary (several kids got a vidcam during the day they shot the fight scene, 8 min)
   

9. •Deleted Scenes (proposal, the kids meet, 4 min)
   

10. •Theatrical Trailers (2)
    

11. •Previews (3)