This is enormous fun, one of the best TV adaptations to date, and guaranteed to provoke a nostalgic misty eye and mischevious grin in anybody who's ever owned a crimplene tank top.
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05/20/08
Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:22
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Though lightweight and silly, The Brady Bunch Movie still charms as homage to the 70s sitcom.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The popular 70s TV show makes a graceful transition to the big screen in this light-hearted feature that's part parody and part homage. The plot here (about a ruthless land developer who wants to... [More]
Starring: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean, Florence Henderson
Director: Betty Thomas
Reviews for Brady Bunch Movie
Top CriticWhile the young actors are all fine at spoofery, we get the impression that only Long, McKean and Cole really understand the joke.
05/20/08
Top Critic[Director Thomas] drawn hilariously synthetic performances from a shrewdly cloned cast.
02/09/06
Top CriticThe problem with The Brady Bunch is that, satirical or serious, ninety minutes is too much.
01/01/00
There are a surprizing number of good laughs, but in the end it's an NBC movie of the week filmed in 35mm.
01/01/00
Apparently someone else besides yours truly was watching the eighties sitcom "Day by Day".
06/09/03
The Brady Bunch Movie is -- to exhaust this string of metaphors -- pure junk food. But like most junk food, it sure tastes good.
01/01/00
The film establishes a bland, reassuring, comforting Brady reality - a certain muted tone that works just fine but needs, I think, a bleaker contrast from outside to fully exploit the humor.
01/01/00
Top CriticAmong the most deeply cynical movies ever made.
01/01/00
A gentle, passable spoof.
01/01/00
The Brady Bunch Movie is just another weak attempt to hit our nostalgia buttons.
01/01/00
John Waterish amalgamation that both pricks and honors the ideal American family
04/20/01
Part homage, part spoof, the deft balancing act is a clever, engaging adaption.
02/13/01
Top CriticThe actors try hard, but the screenplay isn't solid enough to keep any of them consistently clever.
05/20/03
Top CriticOne 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.
01/01/00
It made me wistful not only for a piece of my youth, but also for an era when families were functional, communities seemed closer.
01/01/00
A curiously sour movie in its amused contempt for this fatuous family.
05/20/08
The sitcom elements are strung together rather than interwoven; there's no sense of movement or development in the film.
01/01/00
If dumbness is a large part of our problem, then The Brady Bunch Movie is a small (and oddly cheery) part of its solution.
01/01/00
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