Yours, Mine and Ours (2005) Critic Reviews

Generally pleasant family-friendly fare.Read the full review

Pretty painless by kiddie movie standards.Read the full review

The movie equivalent of a box of generic macaroni and cheese: bland, easily digested, comforting, forgettable.Read the full review

The storyline is so familiar ("Cheaper by the Dozen," et al), the audience can practically call out scenes ahead of time.Read the full review

So snug, airtight and insulated from reality that the nice, well-scrubbed "Cheaper by the Dozen" seems almost rambunctious by comparison.Read the full review

The movie, directed with a gym teacher's whistle by "Scooby-Doo's" Raja Gosnell, is a contempo soft-focus remake of the 1968 original starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda.Read the full review

Unable to decide whether it wants to be a rambunctious family comedy or a tender romantic comedy, the Dennis Quaid-Rene Russo vehicle strains to be both and ends up falling short of both marks.Read the full review

Synthetic, strained and noisy, Yours, Mine & Ours is a clinker that doesn't bear comparison with the original. Quaid, Russo and others deserve better.Read the full review

There's not a moment in this story arc that is not predictable.Read the full review