Yours, Mine & Ours

Raja Gosnell's big, bland remake of the 1968 blended-family comedy starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda as widowed parents who merge their enormous broods with more enthusiasm than forethought is utterly formulaic and pointless. Coast Guard admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid), who has eight children and lost his wife a few years earlier, has just been posted to New London, Conn., where he grew up. His high-school girlfriend, designer Helen North (Rene Russo), also moved back after a career-oriented stint in New York; she was widowed four years ago and has 10 children, including a rainbow coalition of six adoptees. They cross paths in a restaurant, get reacquainte...