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?

If you gonna make a movie out of a t.v. comedy hit, this is how you're gonna do it. Brady fan, or non Brady fan, you'll get many a laugh out of this lightheaded comedy, that really stays true to the show, coupled with great imitative performances, that does the same (Shelley Long is amazing, as is Garry Cole, almost as good) while the kids really bestow such talented performances, you keep having to remind yourself, the are not the real Brady's from the show. Familiar incidents, songs, habits, whatever, are wonderfully mocked in such an entertaining film, where we meet some old Brady's in cameo bits, a sad reminder, all these actors didn't go far, after. Michael Mckeon as the scheming, Brady hating neighbor, trying to run them out of their house, for business reasons, is indeed a pleasure to watch, while wifie is an alcoholic, sex starved, seductive lover. Of course, as we know, with the Brady's, good triumphs over bad. The Greg Brady in this though, surprisingly, turns girls off. Every Brady is as good as the next, though really, Long is unbelievably great, totally mirroring the late Flo Henderson, who just recently passed. I've never seen another comedy movie, that stays more loyal to it's t.v. show, than this one, you'll feel in Brady world all over again. Spend a Brady night in with this one. You won't regret it. A hit, with a great opening beaty score. What a unique bunch.

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995): Dir: Betty Thomas / Cast: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Christine Taylor, Michael McKean: "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" whines Jan in the film version of America's most happy household. It looks like the 1970's sitcom yet it plunders in despair of various episodes forming to create a lame story. The Brady family try to save their house from being auctioned off by a greedy neighbour. Director Betty Thomas succeeds in placing the sitcom setting within the reality of change that the family fails to adapt to. The performances would be great if the actors were given anything to do. Gary Cole and Shelley Long play Mike and Carol Brady who couldn't find their way out of a closet with the door open. Among the many children are Christopher Daniel Barnes who dreams of becoming a rock star so that he can wow the girls who think he has no talent. Christine Taylor plays Marcia who combs her hair 500 strokes. That sounds like someone who has too much time on her hands. Michael McKean is featured as the villain out to get their home as well as others in the neighbourhood. Its purpose is to celebrate a successful sitcom, which they shamelessly tarnish with elements of current lifestyles. The clean humour of the original sitcom is replaced with corny sexual references and bathroom humour that have no place within a family like this. Score: 3 / 10

i never saw any episode of the Brady's , but i enjoyed this spoof of 70's righteous family living in modern mid nineties, not so glamorous, period. i specially like the funny as always Shelly long of course as the mother, and amazing babe Christine Taylor playing Marcia. but for me the movie really started to pick up from the moment (49 min) Davy Jones give an exceptional performance of his 70's Brady's hit 'girl' while Marcia Brady 70's character drive an entire 90's grunge crowed to dance to is song, and the schoolteachers are gathering around him. so to sum it up - great fun movie , and the sequel was also as good. Christine Taylor will probably will always be remembered for this role.