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The Brady Bunch Movie

The Brady Bunch Movie

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: RERUNS STEP ASIDE!!!!!
Review: Everyone told me that this movie stunk!Boy were they wrong!This is one of the most hilarious movies I have ever seen in my entire life!The plot was great and the comedy was very funny.If you love comedy's,then see this movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Where are the scenes?
Review: For years, I have watched The Brady Bunch Movie on TV, and always found it funny. I decided to purchase it, because my taped version from TV was wearing out. I was SO dissipointed when I got this tape. There were lots of scenes missing, including a complete sub-plot about termites in the Dittmeyer's bathroom. Now, when you see Mr. Dittmeyer in the mall with the neck brace and toilet, it makes no sense!

Is this the way all tapes of this movie are? Is this the way (film makers)originally distrubuted the movie? I don't know, but it makes me mad that the TV version is actually superior to the video tape version. What's up?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Weird, subversive, essential
Review: Given the fact that I would never have been allowed to watch the original Brady series on the grounds that it was too permissive and likely to influence me in baaad ways, this was quite a blast.

Firstly, forget a shred of possibility that the mick is being taken out of the original Bradies. The joke is actually (and it take about 23 - 27 viewings to see this) on the neighbours, the school especially, and most specifically, the nineties.

I am frankly amazed, virtually astonished that this film made it out of the studios at all. This is toxic stuff (images of the director, stoned out, staggering, croaking to an unprepared world "here.. review it...") and very offensive to this particular generation, who, as we all know, are fragile and sensitive creatures...

The Bradies are actually normal people living in a world of near psychopaths. The neighbours are complete nutzillas, there are metal detectors in the schools... What the movie is saying its look, the wedge got hammered in, this is your world now.

Martia being "possessed" is the ultimate reflexive self commentary in the film, a kind of inside out view of the character simultaneously from the point of the objective world, and the fish eye lens view from the nineties (i.e. not quite real) world.

The music is excellent, by the way, which is a purely gratuitous touch by the afore mentioned crazy director.

Who, incidently, I want to by a drink the very next time I see you, dude.

Man, you are DEEP.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: i love this movie
Review: i am a big fan of the brady bunch tv show from the 70s then i shall this movie on tv i loved it it was so much like the tv show i leked the idea that it puts the bradys in the 90s when they are still stuck in the 70s for pepole who do not like this flim get a life it was a good movie it just was post to be silly that is wat i like about it only pepole ho like the brady bunch would like the brady bunch movie it is based on the tv show it is also making fun of them a little bit but not a mean way it was just making fun so it could be silly the movie is good and funny i like it when the brady kids sing on stage to when a contest and sing the song keep on moving oh the oldest brady boy name on the brady bunch movie was greg brady not chuck brady do you haer me amazon...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: all this was is a spoof
Review: I love the brady bunch i see it all the time on tv land then i shall this movie i That it was post to be based on the tv show it was not all it was is just a movie that is making fun of the brady bunch its just another spoof movie like scary movie or airplane why did they call this movie the brady bunch if it was a spoof of it if you like the brady bunch then dont see this it is just a spoof and making fun of good pepole trust me its not worth it in les you are looking for a good spoof movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great movie but wee need the scenes ?
Review: i love this movie im glad there have a dvd of it now the ones who make the dvd of the brady bunch movie could you put the extra scenes in the scenes where greg is next door tring to play with band and the scenes where peter is mowing there the brady next doors lon and the women next door is tring to seduce peter and the scene where the bradys next door man finds termits in little girl scince pogect and the scene where he is tring to put the termits in the bradys yard and the dog comes and puts it back in his bathroom and the scene where the next door man is going to the bath room before the dvd of this movie comes out the ones who make the dvd of the brady bunch movie could you please put in the extra scenes i no im am asking to much but you can i would like it a lot.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funnyfunnyfunnyfunny
Review: I must say, the only reason that I checked this movie out was because it had Davy Jones in it. (Plus a glimpse of Peter Tork, Mickey Dolenz and the Partridge Family bus.) At first I was skeptical, thinking something was seriously wrong with the movie, but I realized they were in the 90's and it took a totally hilarious turn. Very well acted. Marcia's snobbiness is totally complete. I also like the way they put 2 of the original Brady Bunch characters into it. (Mom and Marcia. It's pretty obvious.) All in all, if you like anything old-fashioned and funny (namely The Monkees and the Partridge Family) added into already funny films, this would be a good selection. Especially Monkees fans.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Too funny for words!
Review: I originally saw this movie on the big screen... as an adult who grew up watching The Brady Bunch when it was still a prime time show, I thought I would die laughing when I saw this. I could tell a number of the younger viewers in the theater did not understand a lot of the gags in the movie. The costuming is dead on (most of us of that age either dressed that way or had brothers and sisters who did). Christine Taylor, who plays the Marcia character is good, but the actress who plays Jan is hysterical (she's perfect! ). Shelly Long gets Florence Henderson's mannerisms and voice tone down so well - it's almost scary ("Oh Mike...") and Gary Cole deserves an award for being able to deliver those inane "Mike Brady" speeches with a straight face. This movie and it's sequel are great - complete with the Brady Kids song and dance numbers ("I think I'll go for a walk outside, now - the sunshine's calling my name...") but make more sense if you are very familiar with the series it parodies.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great Movie - Disappointing DVD
Review: I remember watching this movie in the theatres. The audience was packed and I LOVED every minute of it. Shelly Long made an outstanding Carol Brady, loving wife and doting mother to six (count 'em six) children. The movie captured the classic camp of the television show perfectly down to trademark episode storylines inter-woven into a bigger story. The real stand out actors though has to be Christine Taylor as Marcia and Jennifer Elise Cox as Jan. The dynamic duo really set the stage with not only their remarkable resemblance to the characters but the way they captured even the inflections of the blonde Brady girls. It was almost like being taken back to the series. And speaking of which, several original series cast members make cameo appearances in the film, such as Florence Henderson as Grandma Brady, Barry Williams as a music producer, Ann B. Davis as Shultzy (named as an homage to her character on the Bob Cummings Show), and Christopher Knight as the school coach. And you can't miss the ever talented Jean Smart or RuPaul as the drunk next door neighbor and school guidence counselor. The drawbacks of the DVD release though is that Paramount skimped on any bonus material. We are benefited with seeing the movie in crystal clear widescreen and in Dolby sound, but there are no behind-the-scenes clips added though such material was shown on television when the movie was just released. There are no character/actor bios. There are no photo stills. There are no Brady song montages. There isn't even a movie trailer of the movie itself. There is just simply nothing added to make this DVD as special as it could have been than just the movie standing alone. In my mind, the purpose of releasing a movie on DVD at all is to provide the audience with a higher level of product than you would recieve on a standard videotape. Because the movie wasn't released with any of these I have to grudgingly give the DVD a three out of five stars. Not because the movie isn't good, because it is. It's one of my favorites. No, I gave it three stars because companies such as Paramount and others like them really should know better. The word 'cheated' comes to mind.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great parody of 70s kitsch in today's world
Review: I saw this movie 3 times the weekend it came out, and I NEVER do that. But this movie is just hilarious -- Marcia is so sure she looks "groovy" in her little psychedelic minidresses with white shoes (and indeed the guys think she's hot, as does one of her girlfriends.) Greg thinks he's quite the Romeo with his horrid pick-up lines and lame attempts at songwriting, while the girls run away screaming. And Jan is so jealous of "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" that she starts developing a split personality.

The movie also stars Michael McKean, whose first acting job was "Lenny" on the 70s show "Laverne and Shirley". He plays an evil developer trying to convince the Bradys to sell their home so they can build a mall there. The rest of the neighborhood already agrees and the Bradys must save the home that architect Mike has built.

Shelly Long as Carol is great, her wig is almost alive in its perkiness. Alice wears a leather bustier under her maid's outfit as she tells her lame jokes. And the movie just throws in so many sight gags --- the Bradys having a hoedown in the living room in celebration, a potato sack race in the back yard, having a "kid meeting" to devise money-making schemes.

Also great are the scenes with RuPaul as Jan's guidance counselor, Davey Jones as himself performing at a school dance, cameos of the original Alice (Ann B. Schulz), Greg Brady (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight) and Carol (Florence Henderson.) No matter what you thought of the show, you will laugh watching this flick.


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