Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda must be turning in their graves.
Dennis Quaid is a great actor who has done some great movies. This isn't one of them. It's an unnecessary remake filled with overused, humorless gags. Single parents meet, get married, their kids hate each other, they mess up the house, turn on the parents, and bond in the process. Why not just watch the original, or at least a few episodes of the Brady Bunch? Both were much better shows than this one.
Why the writers bothered putting in the racially diverse foster kids angle, I don't know. It doesn't enter into any aspect of the story. Thankfully, these writers don't try to explore it; it would probably be just as superficial and contrived as the rest of the movie.
This is not the worst film I've seen, but it's a dud. I gave it some minimal credit for good acting and decent camera work. My recommendation: Rent the original and have some classic laughs. Leave this one in the $1.99 bin at WalMart.
Dennis Quaid is a great actor who has done some great movies. This isn't one of them. It's an unnecessary remake filled with overused, humorless gags. Single parents meet, get married, their kids hate each other, they mess up the house, turn on the parents, and bond in the process. Why not just watch the original, or at least a few episodes of the Brady Bunch? Both were much better shows than this one.
Why the writers bothered putting in the racially diverse foster kids angle, I don't know. It doesn't enter into any aspect of the story. Thankfully, these writers don't try to explore it; it would probably be just as superficial and contrived as the rest of the movie.
This is not the worst film I've seen, but it's a dud. I gave it some minimal credit for good acting and decent camera work. My recommendation: Rent the original and have some classic laughs. Leave this one in the $1.99 bin at WalMart.