Lighthearted, easy watching and that's about it for 'Yours, Mine and Ours'. It really is the less favoured siblng of the 'Cheaper by the Dozen' films and although the premise is different on paper, this film can't escape the comparisons. I'm not saying that it's bad or even badly acted, which it isn't, but it sadly lacks a decent storyline and the film predictably follows cliche after cliche to a very, you got it, cliched ending. There are also several points in the film where you question elements of the storyline - Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo meet after many years apart and spontaneously marry without meeting their future stepkids (of which there are many, for both parties) or even figuring out whether the arrangement could ever work with a horde of strange teens, pre-teens and young kids living under the same roof (seriously, who does that?) and you also wonder that instead of implementing a bathroom schedule, couldn't they have just bought a house with a lot more amenities and bathrooms for so many people.
I bought it on a whim and it'll do for a bit of brainless film watching but sadly it lacks any substantial storyline to go above or beyond that. It's not an awful film so that's why it gets 3 stars instead of 2.