Review of The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) by Troy F — 08 Apr 2015

"Citizen Kane" this film is not. However, it's awfully fun and almost works as a meta take on the nostalgia/remake craze of the 90s. Rather than simply doing a straight remake of the beloved TV series, this film chose to take the Brady family and place them into something of a time loop, where they are dropped into modern day LA but they all continue to think, act and dress as if it were still the early 1970s.

Shelly Long is the famous name cast as Carol Brady, but Gary Cole really steals every one of his scenes as Mike Brady. Christine Taylor is the other standout in the cast, playing Marcia Brady. I remember also liking the actor who played Greg Brady when I saw this in theaters because he used to be on a sitcom at the time I liked called "Day by Day.

" That show was a standard family sitcom where he played the teen slacker who was obsessed with TV. On that show there was a memorable episode where he dreamed he part of the Brady Bunch family, which included many of the original cast members and a nice recreation of the Brady house set.

But to be clear on this film, it's one that can really only be enjoyed if you grew up watching endless reruns of every Brady Bunch episode, which I did.