SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: YOURS, MINE & OURS

"YOURS, MINE & OURS"
(2005) (Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo) (PG)

Alcohol/ Drugs	Blood/Gore	Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude	Frightening/ Tense Scenes	Guns/ Weapons
Mild	Minor	Heavy	Minor	Minor

Imitative Behavior	Jump Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Profanity
Moderate	Minor	None	None	Minor

Sex/ Nudity	Smoking	Tense Family Scenes	Topics To Talk About	Violence
Moderate	Minor	*Heavy	Moderate	Mild

QUICK TAKE:: Comedy: When their single parents unexpectedly marry and bring their disparate families together, eighteen siblings conspire to break up the relationship so that they can go back to the way they used to live.

PLOT:

For the many Beardsley kids, constantly moving to new places is a fact of life, especially when their dad Frank (DENNIS QUAID) keeps moving up the chain of command in the U.S. Coast Guard and may soon replace his superior (RIP TORN) as the commandant of the entire organization.

Even so, it isn't easy for his eight kids -- Ethan, 4 (TY PANITZ); 6-year-old twins Otter (BRIDGER PALMER) and Ely (BRECKEN PALMER); Kelly, 8 (HALEY RAMM); Harry, 10 (DEAN COLLINS); Michael, 12 (TYLER PATRICK JONES); Christina, 16 (KATIJA PEVEC); and William, 17 (SEAN FARIS) -- especially since their mother has been dead for a number of years. House manager Mrs. Munion (LINDA HUNT) is there to help around each new house, but with Frank's tightly disciplined family unit, things run rather smoothly.

That's in sharp contrast to widow Helen North (RENE RUSSO), Frank's high school girlfriend who's now an artsy, clothing designer whose manager, Max (JERRY O'CONNELL), is trying to land her a lucrative department store job. Helen thrives on disarray and chaos, two conditions in which her kids -- Aldo, 4 (NICHOLAS ROGET-KING); 8-year-old twins Marisa (JESSICA HABIB) and Bina (JENNIFER HABIB); Lau, 9 (ANDREW VO); Joni, 10 (MIRANDA COSGROVE); Jimi, 11 (LIL' JJ); Mick, 12 (SLADE PEARCE); Naoko, 14 (MIKI ISKIKAWA); Dylan, 16 (DRAKE BELL); and Phoebe, 17 (DANIELLE PANABAKER) -- thrive.

Their paths meet again when Frank is reassigned to run the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut alongside old friend Darrell (DAVID KOECHNER). It's there that Frank runs into Helen at their high school reunion. Sparks and feelings are immediately rekindled and the two get married on a spur of the moment whim -- much to the shock of their kids who are then forced to move in together in a large lighthouse home along the coast.

With the siblings being unaccustomed to their new step-parent's different style of parenting as well as the behavior and attitudes of their new stepbrothers and sisters, the eighteen kids end up clashing. Realizing they were better off before this new scenario, they decide to put aside their differences and conspire to do whatever it takes to drive a wedge between their parents in hopes that they'll eventually split up.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: Younger kids probably will, as might anyone who's a fan of someone in the cast.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG: For some mild crude humor.

CAST AS ROLE MODELS:: DENNIS QUAID plays the by-the-books Coast Guard admiral who runs a disciplined family and thus isn't pleased with the way Helen's kids act or the way in which she parents them. He eventually becomes unhappy with her and the overall situation.
RENE RUSSO plays the bohemian style fashion designer who similarly has a problem with how Frank treats her kids, eventually causing a falling out between them following all of their kids' attempts at getting them to break up.
KATIJA PEVEC plays Frank's teenage daughter, a high school cheerleader who instantly clashes with Phoebe, but conspires with her and the others to break up their parents' new marriage.
SEAN FARIS plays her straight-laced, older brother who similarly tries to break up the union and combined family situation.
DRAKE BELL plays Helen's more free-spirited teenage son who clashes with him but also participates in the conspiracy.
DANIELLE PANABAKER plays his older sister who doesn't like Christina and makes out with the guy she likes at school just out of spite.
LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; RENE RUSSO plays the bohemian style fashion designer who similarly has a problem with how Frank treats her kids, eventually causing a falling out between them following all of their kids' attempts at getting them to break up.
KATIJA PEVEC plays Frank's teenage daughter, a high school cheerleader who instantly clashes with Phoebe, but conspires with her and the others to break up their parents' new marriage.
SEAN FARIS plays her straight-laced, older brother who similarly tries to break up the union and combined family situation.
DRAKE BELL plays Helen's more free-spirited teenage son who clashes with him but also participates in the conspiracy.
DANIELLE PANABAKER plays his older sister who doesn't like Christina and makes out with the guy she likes at school just out of spite.
LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; KATIJA PEVEC plays Frank's teenage daughter, a high school cheerleader who instantly clashes with Phoebe, but conspires with her and the others to break up their parents' new marriage.
SEAN FARIS plays her straight-laced, older brother who similarly tries to break up the union and combined family situation.
DRAKE BELL plays Helen's more free-spirited teenage son who clashes with him but also participates in the conspiracy.
DANIELLE PANABAKER plays his older sister who doesn't like Christina and makes out with the guy she likes at school just out of spite.
LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; SEAN FARIS plays her straight-laced, older brother who similarly tries to break up the union and combined family situation.
DRAKE BELL plays Helen's more free-spirited teenage son who clashes with him but also participates in the conspiracy.
DANIELLE PANABAKER plays his older sister who doesn't like Christina and makes out with the guy she likes at school just out of spite.
LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; DRAKE BELL plays Helen's more free-spirited teenage son who clashes with him but also participates in the conspiracy.
DANIELLE PANABAKER plays his older sister who doesn't like Christina and makes out with the guy she likes at school just out of spite.
LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; DANIELLE PANABAKER plays his older sister who doesn't like Christina and makes out with the guy she likes at school just out of spite.
LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; LINDA HUNT plays Frank's house manager who tries to keep dibs and control over all of the kids, but seems distracted at times.
JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; JERRY O'CONNELL plays Helen's manager who tries to land her a lucrative job.
RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; RIP TORN plays Frank's immediate supervisor who wants him to assume his position when he retires.
DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.; DAVID KOECHNER plays Frank's old friend at the Coast Guard academy who tries to set him up on a blind date with his ex-wife.

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OUR WORD TO PARENTS:

Here's a brief summary of the content found in this PG-rated comedy. Profanity consists of a handful of minor expletives, while some colorful phrases are present, as are various instances of some non-explicit, but sexually related dialogue. Some characters are briefly seen in skimpy or slightly revealing attire, while a teen makes out with a guy at school and two boys hold up a thong they find in the laundry (that belongs to their middle-aged housekeeper). A newly married husband and wife are frisky in a few scenes, but nothing happens between them.

Some crude humor occurs, as does some drinking (including seeing kegs being brought into a party attended by teens), while cigarettes butts are seen at that same party. Various bits of potentially imitative behavior are present, as are several instances of slapstick style material. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, including the two sets of siblings who don't like being combined and then conspire to split up their parents, thus causing some tense family moments between them (there's also brief talk about the dead parents from both families).

If you're still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home who may be interested in seeing it, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.

ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE: Miscellaneous people have wine in a restaurant where Frank asks his blind date if she'd like red or white. She says red and then goes on about her ex-husband and how he liked beer.
People have drinks on a high school reunion cruise.
Mrs. Munion pours herself a martini.
Frank's boss makes a toast with a glass of wine for Frank (others raise theirs).
We see kegs being brought into a party at the house, surprising the teens who live there.

BLOOD/GORE: Crude humor includes the following:
After Frank tells one of his kids about having been in bunk beds like he's ordered for his, the kid asks if the guy above him wet his bed.
One of the kids says that the pet dog just "puked" on Aldo, but we don't see any of that.
Frank's blind date announces "I'm going to go hit the head" (use the bathroom).
The pet pig belches several times, including once with Christina's cell phone in its belly (we don't see the swallowing of it).
One of Frank's kids says that they'll pilot the sailboat while Helen's kids will be down below picking their noses.
After some water washes onto a boy while sailing, an older kid jokes that he peed his pants.
One of the younger kids vomits from being sea sick, with another then slipping in the visible vomit on the sailboat deck.

DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE: Darrell sets up Frank on a blind date with his ex-wife (she later says they were married 7 years).
About Frank's orderly ways, one of Helen's kids says "Great. Mom gets married. We get drafted."
The kids from the different families don't get along, bickering and fighting with each other until they set the common goal of getting their parents to break up so that their families can split up (although this eventually causes them to bond).
Dylan purposefully turns a lazy Susan on the table so that it spills oatmeal or something similar onto William's homework.
Some school kids are mean to the twins for belonging to such a large family.
Phoebe tells Christina that a guy the latter likes is shallow, but then sarcastically adds that maybe he's right for Christina.
William changes the daily bathroom schedule (where every kid is allotted a certain time), thus inconveniencing Helen's kids. To retaliate, Dylan holds something burning up to the smoke detector and yells "Fire!" to make that side of the family rush out.
Christina catches Phoebe making out with the guy at school that Christina earlier said she liked. Phoebe says the guy is a loser, but a "hot loser."
The older kids plan and then throw a massive party at their house in hopes that it will be the straw to break the camel's back (meaning their parents' marriage).
A guy comes on to Christina after having previously made out with Phoebe.
Frank and Helen get into a big fight over how to respond to their kids throwing a wild party at their house and that causes the kids to be upset when they comment on hearing Helen crying herself to sleep that night. During the fight, Helen tells Frank that maybe he should take the job that would move him and his family to D.C.
Some older and bigger school kids pick on the twins again, but stop and then run away when the rest of their family comes to the rescue.

FRIGHTENING SCENES: Trying to make Helen's workplace messy again (since that's how she likes it), one of the kids tosses a computer monitor out the window. Realizing what he's done, he grabs the CPU, but the cable that's attacked to the heavy monitor pulls him toward and then through the window. Another kid grabs his feet but is pulled through, with another kid grabbing their feet and so on. This is all played for light slapstick, with Helen and Mrs. Munion eventually pulling all of them back inside to safety.

GUNS/WEAPONS: We see various Coast Guard cadets carrying rifles.
We see a large artillery gun on the deck of a Coast Guard ship.
Some ceremonial swords are held up at a wedding ceremony.

IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR: Phrases: "Don't piss me off," "Looks like a nuthouse," "I'm shiny, mommy," "Mad dog" (said followed by some barking), "Gal," "I think it's hormones" (said about Helen crying over a movie), "I'm going to go hit the head" (use the bathroom), "Shut up (loser)," "Jeez," "Are you crazy?" "How about capturing my fist in your face?" "Freaks," "(Such a) loser," "This family is nuts," "Up top, girlfriend," "Are you the freaks?" "Nasty," "Dude," "Get a watch, hippie chick," "You guys are so dead," "A real hottie," "It was the bomb," "Jerks," "I will bring the hammer down," "That's barbaric," "Oh, what the hell," "Anal retentive," "Two words - Par-Tee" (party), "Get a load of this guy," "Get lost, loser," "Flake," "Dorky," "We totally screwed it up," "Punk," "Butt-whooping" and "Bro."
Two sisters playfully stick their tongues out at each other.
We see that one of the kids has the pet pig in the kitchen sink.
A kid yells "Incoming!" and we then see a watermelon hit and rupture on some interior steps.
Having previously spray-painted some outdoor flowers, we see Dylan spray-painting the ceiling above his bed.
Dylan purposefully turns a lazy Susan on the table so that it spills oatmeal or something similar onto William's homework.
William changes the daily bathroom schedule (where every kid is allotted a certain time), thus inconveniencing Helen's kids. To retaliate, Dylan holds something burning up to the smoke detector and yells "Fire!" to make that side of the family rush out.
We see two of the young boys dressed in drag and talking like women (to upset Frank).
We see the pet hamster coming out of a paint can covered in paint, while the pet pig also got paint on it during a chaotic scene where the kids throw paint on each other, get into a pillow fight, etc.
The two groups of kids conspire to work together to get their parents to hate each other and hopefully break up.
The young kids go wild on sweets.
The older kids plan and then throw a massive party at their house in hopes that it will be the straw to break the camel's back (meaning their parents' marriage).
A miscellaneous singer at a party has a ring through his lip.
A kid rides a bike down some inside stairs at a wild party.

JUMP SCENES: A loud crash from the floor above Helen startles her and might do the same to some viewers.

MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE): None.

MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE): None.

PROFANITY: At least 1 hell, 3 uses of "Oh my God," 2 of "God" and 1 use of "Oh God."

SEX/NUDITY: Frank tells his friend that he "Googled" Helen (looked her up on the Internet), prompting Darrell to ask "You Googled another man's wife?" Frank says he did, wondering what that means. Darrell then jokes that it sounds dirty, but Frank says it isn't.
Helen shows some cleavage in her party dress.
Mrs. Munion asks Frank and Helen where her room is in the new combined household, adding "Before you make your break for the bedroom."
We see Frank shirtless while brushing his teeth and Helen shows a little cleavage in her top. The two playfully wrestle about and fall on the bed (with one saying "I'll show you ready"), but a teen girl yells up that they (the kids) can hear them. The adults then say that maybe if they're quiet, but the kid says she can still hear them. We then see a shot of various kids sleeping in the bed with them, so nothing sexual occurred.
During a fake fire alarm, we see William in just his boxers and Christina in just a towel standing outside (while one of Helen's girls says she's broadcasting her shot of Christina over the Internet).
Christina catches Phoebe making out with the guy at school that Christina earlier said she liked. Phoebe says the guy is a loser, but a "hot loser."
Frank makes up a story about a beautiful lighthouse keeper (really referring to Helen while telling her the tale). He adds that she was "a real hottie" and that her body was "the bomb."
Frank and Helen lie down, embrace and kiss on a bed (clothed) but we then see that they're in a department store and the employees there are not happy.
We see the two young boys running by in just their briefs.
While doing the laundry, Jimmy asks Michael if it's something he forgot when he holds up a sheer thong. Mrs. Munion then walks by and takes it, saying it's hers (but she's not mad).
William says they need one more thing to push their parents over the edge, prompting Dylan to say that they could catch William and Phoebe or William and Christina together (presumably meaning fooling around).
Helen shows a little cleavage.

SMOKING: Christina pours a bunch of cigarette butts (floating in a punch bowl) onto a guy who's now after her after having previously made out with Phoebe.

TENSE FAMILY SCENES: Some of the following is played for comedy (except for the talk of deaths and the growing husband/wife tension toward the end).
We see that Frank and his family have moved again, this being the 12th time and some of his kids are complaining about that.
Darrell sets up Frank on a blind date with his ex-wife (she later says they were married 7 years).
Helen states that her husband died four years ago in a car accident (and later explains that her lack of rules stems from the one rule that anything can be taken away from you at a moment's notice), while Frank states his wife died several years ago as well.
Frank and Helen separately announce to their kids that they got married at the spur of the moment, upsetting the kids, especially when they learn that they'll now have many more brothers and sisters.
The kids from the different families don't get along, bickering and fighting with each other until they set the common goal of getting their parents to break up so that their families can split up (although this eventually causes them to bond).
Some marital strife develops between Frank and Helen after their kids collectively set out to sabotage their marriage. In several scenes, they bicker and then verbally fight until Frank says he's sleeping somewhere else in the house that night.
Frank and Helen get into a big fight over how to respond to their kids throwing a wild party at their house and that causes the kids to be upset when they comment on hearing Helen crying herself to sleep that night. During the fight, Helen tells Frank that maybe he should take the job that would move him and his family to D.C.
Upon hearing that Frank's side of the family will be moving to D.C., all of the kids on both sides are upset, with one of the younger ones saying that he doesn't want to lose another mommy.

TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT: Big families.
Combined families via marriage.
Different styles of parenting.
Losing a parent.
We see that Frank and his family have moved again, this being the 12th time and some of his kids are complaining about that.
Helen has six adopted kids along with her four biological ones.
The fact that young Ethan always calls his dad "Admiral."
One of Frank's younger kids asks if his blind date is going to be their new mom.
We see two of the young boys dressed in drag and talking like women (to upset Frank).
Dealing with bullies.
The Coast Guard.

VIOLENCE: Slapstick style material includes the following:
During some chaos inside Helen's home, Aldo is on a sliding, library-type ladder when he's bumped off it. He falls toward the floor, but lands in some stuff and is okay.
Helen slips and falls to a restaurant floor right after Frank turns and runs into a waiter carrying a tray of beverages.
Christina purposefully allows the jib sail rope to get around Dylan's foot, thus raising him in the air when the rope is moved. They then reverse that and he lands with a thump on the deck but is okay.
When Frank races up to the sailboat deck to see who's causing the commotion, the boom hits and knocks him overboard (played for comedy and he's okay).
While shopping in a home improvement store, the twins accidentally put a forklift in gear, with Frank then trying to stop them. He jumps onto the lift, but bangs his head on boxes on the adjacent shelves before being dumped into some sort of green goo and then nearly being run over by the forklift (all played for slapstick).
We see some in the ring violence during a televised professional wrestling match (the usual stuff).
One of the kids purposefully drops a shoe down into a bucket of paint that then splatters onto a kid down below. That kid thinks another did it and that sets off a chain reaction where more and more of the kids are drawn into the fray of throwing paint onto others, spraying others, getting into a pillow fight, etc. until they and the house are a mess. Frank then arrives home, slips on the paint and water mixture, and lands face-first into some paint.

Reviewed November 2, 2005 / Posted November 23, 2005

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