Release Year: 2005 Director: Raja Gosnell Producer: Robert Simonds Distributor: Paramount Pictures
synopsis
When Frank Beardsley, a widower with eight children, runs into his high school sweetheart, Helen North, it's as if thirty years never passed! Helen, also a widow with ten kids of her own that include the six she and her husband adopted, feels the attraction as well. It's no wonder they rush into marriage without telling their kids. True love can conquer all--right? Unfortunately for Frank and Helen, the families don't mesh quite as easily as the newlyweds had hoped. They probably should have seen the culture clash coming: the disciplined Beardsleys run things by the book; for the energetic and vivacious Norths, there is no book. Helen's kids aren't pleased about moving and sharing rooms with a bunch of uptight strangers. Frank's children have nothing in common with the unruly Norths. Since both sets of kids aren't happy, they devise a plan to undermine the marriage and team up to plot the breakup. East meets west as the two families find a way to work together--in order to separate! Just when it appears that the kids have succeeded, they realize they like each other despite their differences--they don't want their families to split up! Can they save Frank and Helen's marriage after they so brilliantly split them up? It's up to Frank and Helen..
Gag. I'm here to report that YOURS, MINE AND OURS isn't as bad as you probably feared it might be. It's worse. Much worse. By SCOOBY-DOO's director Raja Gosnell, this remake of the 1968 film, which starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, is nothing but shrill and frantic slapstick. Watching it, you'll swear Gosnell had all of his actors running on a treadmill while he yelled at them to scream louder and run faster. He also must have had a clock on the set that went off every three minutes to remind the actors that it was time for another pratfall. At one point during the movie, I put my fingers in my ears in order to attempt to save my hearing.
