"The neighbor wants to make a Brady boy sandwich. Yeah, like that."
Satire, people. It's good as a SATIRE.Exploit the cliches, make fun tirelessly, include serious homosexual undertones and you have the endearing piece of comedy contained within the Brady Bunch Movie.
A summary of events: The Bradys have somehow survived intact and unaged into the nineties. There is evil plotting against them by an evil neighbor that will take away their home unless they can come up with 20,000 smackaroos. So the Brady children come to the rescue.
The casting for this movie is perfect. Greg Brady is absolutely hilarious yet not so much that you don't automatically associate his every move with...well, with Greg Brady. And I never even saw the show except for the occasional re-run. Which brings up the point that it was funny even if you hadn't seen every episode.
Marsha is also very well cast. Well, they all are, really. Shelly Long really delivers, I mean, considering she's a dumb blond who left Sam on their wedding day to go write a book or some shit.
The humor is VERY tongue in cheek, and I can completly understand those who tire of it early on. I saw this on video, so I could easily switch to something else if I got bored. it is a good choice when renting a flick you're not sure if you're gunna like. Watch it on a night when there is something else on.
However, I felt this movie was entertaining and accomplished what it set out to do: parody, yet endearing.3.5 sporks, but since there is no decimal ranking system, I'll round down, because Shelly Long is in it, and she was never right for Sam anyways,
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User Comments
5/24/10
BARRY
CLOWNS NEVER LAUGHED BEFORE..
6/07/09
R Lan
As someone who grew up watching the Brady Bunch, I enjoyed this spoof of the show.
5/23/09
art
IT SUCK"S!
4/03/09
Dane Youssef
If you hate the Brady's, you'd still like this movie. The perfect send-up and antidote.
1/07/09
Shaun Wallner
Very Boring!
10/20/08
Monster A Go-Go
Hilarious, dead-on satire that really nails the show.
10/23/07
William Goss
Surprisingly adept application of the classic sitcom to the nineties.
1/12/07
saad muhammud
they are a bunch of retards
1/02/06
Anthony Feor
Its worth watching
8/12/05
ES
This movie was brilliant for a TV show made movie, sequels not bad either
4/09/05
judith anderson
Terrible. What a snooze!
6/14/04
T. Maj
Perfect send-up of bizarre sitcom
5/31/04
Daveman
Funny as fuck
10/19/03
Samuel Justus
So Stupid!
5/12/03
olivia
good
3/04/03
Jon "Thumb the Toad" Lyrik
The Brady Yawn.
1/19/03
scott
just ok
9/09/02
STEVE
I HATE THE BRADY BUNCH!THERE STUPID!THERE UGLY!I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THEM!
5/14/02
Killer
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4/27/02
Hepta Hooty
Good, only what's the part about no toilet? Don't Bradys have to poop?
9/05/01
Butterbean
TV to Movie Screen camp that worked!
9/04/01
KC Au
I loved the idea of a 70's family living in the 90's. My kind of humour : dry, witty, dark
7/26/01
Elvisfan
Seems most of you missed the point completely..brilliant fucking movie
6/07/01
Serial_Monk_the_Jawbreaker
Mean and hilarious dark comedy that exposes the true idiosity of the cult TV show
4/24/01
J
Actually Andrew I thought the show was better but this was good.
4/11/01
Anna-Marie Wilson
This is movie is exallent!I saw it 10 times!
4/09/01
Gary
This movie is hilarious, but a little too comedic.
4/01/01
Andrew Carden
If you liked the show, you will like the movie.
3/02/01
lisa
the guy next door is a bloody babe
10/11/00
Jed
It was kinda funny not the best but it wasn't the worst.
3/18/00
David Rogers
A definent improvement over the unfunny TV series.
1/09/00
John Markham
Dog shit on film! It stank, totally unfunny.
8/17/99
J-E-D
I actually felt a little insulted during this film (despite that it was somewhat funny).
2/18/99
nun uf yur businness
funny movie but it also sucks ass!!!majorly!
12/30/98
Todd
Funny as hell. While watching Christine Taylor, something suddenly came up.
11/26/98
Mr.Pink
Too-knowing-humour, but some hilarious jokes and cameo by Rupaul make it acceptable.
9/26/98
katherine
It was pretty funny.
8/29/98
Johny
I wanted to gouge my eyes out
8/27/98
Chuck-D
Not good, but mildly entertaining. I'd watch it on cable or something