Part of Midnight Movies
The Bradys of the popular ’70s sitcom get thrust into the ’90s, with a whole new set of problems. The family’s house is in danger of being taken away by developer Larry Dittmeyer (Michael McKean) if the ever-positive brood can’t come up with $20,000. Parents Mike (Gary Cole) and Carol (Shelley Long) initially don’t fret, until Mike has difficulty getting any of his architectural designs sold. Fearing the worst, the six Brady kids decide to enter a talent contest and raise the money themselves.
Pitting the even-in-their-time squeaky-clean TV family against a barrage of Gen-Xers, new technologies, grungy fashion, and the evolving sexual politics of the ‘90s makes for one of the better satires of the era. With its layers of compounding, campy nostalgia for two long-past times, this shrugged-off studio pap has become a veritable anthropological treasure.
“Enormous fun, one of the best TV adaptations to date, and guaranteed to provoke a nostalgic misty eye and mischievous grin in anybody who's ever owned a crimplene tank top.” —Caroline Westbrook, Empire Magazine “A sly and witty surprise, a mainstream comedy that’s savvy enough to celebrate American pop kitsch by deconstructing it…. The makers of THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE have too much affection for the show simply to skewer it with satire. What they’ve done is closer to alchemy: turned this cheese into comic gold.” —Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
