The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

... you're familiar with the early 1990's and the non-Vietnam pre-Watergate 1970's and especially the Brady Bunch , you'll think it's a great parody of that era. Otherwise it's hard to really get much from the movie especially the original cast cameos. I give it 8 stars based on what the movie does in making a parody of its source material.

If you take a corny 3-camera sitcom, remove the canned laughs, leave the dumb jokes & applause breaks, & drop it completely untainted & unexplained into the "real" world, what do you get? One of the strangest, funniest, most well-casted, conceptually brilliant, daring, & uniquely anarchic Hollywood comedies of the 90s. And who would've thought a pre-2000s Brady Bunch Movie would be so progressive to have a gay character in it & their sexuality NOT be the butt of a joke?

Here's the story of The Brady Bunch Movie. Which was funnier than one would ex- pect. Most of the humor was pleasant, like the series. But some of it fell flat.Here's the story of the lovely actors. Who played their roles with a crafty sense of style. They were fit-ting, all very solid. Yes, it was somewhat worthwhile.And if one day I'm strick-en with cyni-cism. And you look onto this review as not groovy. You can go on to not trust me. After I enjoyed The Brady Bunch Movie. Yes, I did. I guiltily liked The Brady Bunch Movie.Starring: Gary Cole, Shelley Long, Henriette Mantel, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Christine Taylor, Paul Sutera, Jennifer Elise Cox, Jesse Lee, Alanna Ubach, and Olivia Hack. Directed by: Betty Thomas.

My friend, when learning that I had taped and was watching this movie said: "You're kidding! You're not going to watch the Brady Bunch movie! You're sick!" My response is that he is just a blind idiot that thinks style is everything that is him and if nobody conforms to him then they have a problem. Okay, the Brady Bunch movie is not the best of all movies, but it is funny in a very satirical sort of way.I never watched the Brady Bunch when I was young, and never really liked it, but I thought the clever part of the movie was trapping them in the 70's and bringing them into the nineties. This movie looks at the 90's in a very satirical sort of way, yet the Bradys are completely innocent and don't realise that the world has changed. Where everybody is playing heavy metal and chasing same sex relationships, the Brady's still think Davey Jones is a hit and consider a kiss at the door is the furthest one should go on the first date (not that I really disagree with this, but being 26, one no longer dates, but rather forms relationships with the people around me and we simply get to know each other, but then I'm not exactly the one who knows everything about dating).This seems to be the style that movies move, or the way that I think they should movie, focusing more on satire. Thomas in this movie is clashing the ideal family with the reality of the 90's. It is an attack on the American Dream, and even though they win through in the end, the entire situation is so absurd that one has not option but to laugh. The patriotic speech is a little annoying and creates an unrealistic feel that props up the American Dream once again. I feel that everything that is done to undermine the dream through the movie is completely destroyed by the speech. Then I think that it is something that would detract from a Brady Bunch Movie anyway. But when I consider the speech, it is creating the ideal again, what should be and is not. We should have our neighbourhood and should be allowed to live there in peace, but we all know that it is not true. What happened to the Bradys was absurd, but we know that in reality this will never happen. The point of this is to drag the stupidity of the situation to an extreme end so as to show how stupid it really is. This reminds me that I should sit down and write the drama script in this light, stretching the stupidity to the absolute absurdity.