hyped garbage

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Dull, slow comedy about gender roles, but not in the sense of making fun of the roles, only in reinforcing them. Realism in not the strong point, more like the romantic nonsense of mass produced comics. The end result is quite simple: if you have grown up with this and want some more from the same old, than you're the only audience the production team planned for.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

As a big fan of the original Brady Bunch show, seeing this movie always makes me laugh harder than the show. Of course the show was immensely better, but this movie is one not to be taken seriously at all and just laugh at all of the forced stupidity. That's right, the writers of this movie tried to make it cheesy.Set in 1995, the Bradys are still heavily 70s. This does a hilarious job paying homage to how unintentionally cheesy the show was and the clashing styles of different decades. This is grunge vs hippies. Gary Cole and Shelly Long play Mike and Carol Brady: caricatures of Robert Reed and Florence Henderson. The main plot is that their neighbour Larry Dittmeyer (Michael McKean) tries to get everybody on the block to sell their houses to foreclose a real estate deal, but the Bradys won't sell unless they come up with some money. McKean looks like the guy that played Dittmeyer in the old show. I thought it would have been funny of they somehow incorporated Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley into this, since McKean is best known for playing his best friend, Lenny. I know The Brady Bunch and Laverne & Shirley have no connection, but this is just so homage filled.The subplots of this are used from past Brady Bunch episodes. Bobby adjusts to being safety monitor, Peter deals with his voice changing, Cindy is a tattle-tale, and Greg tries to make it big as rock star "Johnny Bravo." But the biggest one is the sibling rivalry between Jan and Marcia. Jan is jealous that everybody loves Marcia and ignores her. This was actually done better here than in the episode. Cindy overhears her parents' dilemma and tells her siblings, so they try to raise the money themselves. Yes, original Brady cast members make guest appearances. Dittmeyer's son is a big bully who picks on Peter, and the real Peter stops him from smashing pizza in the new Peter's face.This is brief, but a very pleasant surprise. The real Greg Brady plays a strict record producer who rejects the new Greg. Real Greg bashes new Greg's image, name, and song (Clowns Never Laughed Before) which is hilarious because we all know that real Greg is bashing his own self! Jan runs away and is picked up by truck driver Schultzy who is played by the real Alice. And the real Carol plays the Brady's grandmother. Having her play grandma was a smart move.As I mentioned, the Bradys cling to their 70s vibe, so they don't get lots of the sexual innuendo that's in this. Marcia's best friend is a lesbian and she doesn't realize it, and none of them see Mrs. Dittmeyer's hots for Mike and his sons. These clashes really make this one fun and groovy picture!

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995): Dir: Betty Thomas / Cast: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Christine Taylor, Michael McKean: "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" whines Jan in the film version of America's most happy household. It looks like the 1970's sitcom yet it plunders in despair of various episodes forming to create a lame story. The Brady family try to save their house from being auctioned off by a greedy neighbour. Director Betty Thomas succeeds in placing the sitcom setting within the reality of change that the family fails to adapt to. The performances would be great if the actors were given anything to do. Gary Cole and Shelley Long play Mike and Carol Brady who couldn't find their way out of a closet with the door open. Among the many children are Christopher Daniel Barnes who dreams of becoming a rock star so that he can wow the girls who think he has no talent. Christine Taylor plays Marcia who combs her hair 500 strokes. That sounds like someone who has too much time on her hands. Michael McKean is featured as the villain out to get their home as well as others in the neighbourhood. Its purpose is to celebrate a successful sitcom, which they shamelessly tarnish with elements of current lifestyles. The clean humour of the original sitcom is replaced with corny sexual references and bathroom humour that have no place within a family like this. Score: 3 / 10

I managed to catch this movie on TV and decided to stick with it because there was nothing else to watch at that time. Based on the classic TV series, Mike Brady and his wife Carol have one week to come up with $20,000 in back taxes or their house is sold to their scheming neighbor, Larry Dittmeyer.This is a PG-13 version of the family show; it still contains much cheery and carefree elements that render the movie annoying some times, but it isn't totally a waste of time as I've found that plot of the Brady kids helping to raise money to save their family's home to be pretty entertaining. The acting wasn't bad and it was interesting that the movie pays tribute to 60s/70s icons like the Partridge Family and Davey Jones, and well as appearances by some of the original Brady Bunch TV cast.Overall, it's not a bad film for some laughs. Fans of the TV show should enjoy it.Grade B-