The Brady Bunch Movie Movie Review
The Brady Bunch Movie Review
"The Brady Bunch Movie" Overview
Rating: PG-13
1995
Cast and Crew
Director : Betty ThomasProducer : David Kirkpatrick,Lloyd J. Schwartz,Sherwood Schwartz
Screenwiter : Laurice Elehwany,Rick Copp,Bonnie Turner,Terry Turner
Starring : Shelley Long,Gary Cole,Christine Taylor,Christopher Daniel Barnes,Jennifer Elise Cox,Paul Sutera,Olivia Hack,Jesse Lee,Henriette Mantel,David Graf,Florence Henderson,Jack Noseworthy,Megan Ward,Jean Smart,Michael McKean,Moriah Shining Dove Snyder,Alanna Ubach,Shane Conrad,Marissa Ribisi
Did I grow up Brady? Did I! One of the first of the 1970s TV series to get
the big-screen treatment, The Brady Bunch Movie remains virtually the only
successful film from that genre -- one that studios continue to experiment in
with disastrous results. (Full disclosure: We here at filmcritic.com are
rabidly fanatical for Josie and the Pussycats.)
But Brady -- the movie -- does everything right, balancing faithfulness with
the original film with rib-jabbing at its family-friendly kitsch. The catch:
The Bradys are updated to the 1990s, but they haven't changed a bit. The plot
itself -- about a plan to put a mini-mall in place of the Brady block -- is a
throwaway. It's just an excuse to set us up with endless Brady antics, from
Cindy's tattling to Peter's voice changing, to Johnny Bravo. If all this means
something to you, the film will be nothing short of hilarious. If it's
meaningless to you, just look at what you missed!
Okay, I'm not exactly "selling" this movie to you. What can I say? The Bradys
simply have no equal -- both the goodie-two-shoes originals and the
lost-in-the-past updates. Give it a shot.
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Review by Christopher Null 
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