I think this is a good movie but why did they have to make them so dumb? I loved the original show. Watched it all the time. They were never dumb like that though!
shareThey were living in the nineties, but stuck in the mind-set of the late sixties, early seventies. So they were very naive, with no clue as to how modern day people lived.
shareits supposed to be a parody
In the 70's The Brady Bunch embodied what was considered to be the stereotypically ideal American family on television, later in the 80's sitcoms became edgier, dealt with more mature subject matters, and the ideal American family had a major face lift. People began to show little interest in seeing the antics of an ideal American family but rather of the dysfunctional American family. TV had changed and so had pop culture as a whole, people had very different expectations for what they saw on screen and what they read, because of this major shift in pop culture characters like Batman were not held in the same breath as prior television iterations like the 1960's series with Adam West and no longer considered pure. Such was the case with The Brady Bunch, it wasn't aging better it and its depiction of the ideal American family the whole idea just seemed absurd...And that's exactly why the movie exists, it's a satirical take on the series and how dated its character development, comedy, and ideals were. Just the same, they were also poking fun at the 90's. The movie is basically a culture clash, and it works pretty well. I mean I still crack up from the car jacking scene with Greg in the film.
shareBecause it's not supposed to be a movie set in the 70s. It's a movie set in the 90s with a family stuck in the 70s. It's not really that hard to figure out. And they aren't "stupid", they're 1 dimensional characters from a schmaltzy 70s sitcom. They're too pure, too naive and too happy to have even been realistic in the 70s,but in the 90s,they're like chum in a shark tank.
shareYeah from what I've read, Brady Bunch was seen a fake and stupid in the actual 1960s/early 70s as well. But just like Full House, it worked and won an audience and got ratings. Sometimes fake sitcoms do well, not matter how unrealistic they are.
shareI don't think it was fake or stupid, life was "almost" like that back then, except that problems were not solved in twenty minutes..ha ha ha! But it was really a more simple way of life compared to now. I think it had a great audience then, because believe it or not, it was actually breakthough TV. It depicted a blended family, which wasn't common back then. It was also breaking the norms as far as what was shown on TV at the time. That's why it worked.....it grabbed an existing audience because of its family values, as well as a new audience because it was breaking the norms.
share“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
I think that was the worst of what the ironic 80's brought us. No longer did we look to ideals but we wallowed in the mire and aspired to new lows, rather than to higher highs.
I suppose if you think The Kardashians are progress, then laughing at the idealized families of yesteryear makes some sort of sense. But IMO, all this looking down at supposed idealized, 'perfect' families as being too "unrealistic" for our ow good, has done is turn America into Jerry Springer-land.
Alinsky started the concept of what is wrong with America and now liberals and the media project this concept everywhere. What is wrong with being optimistic, even bordering on being naive? People today have to realize that America is still the greatest country and although we are all different, we are the best because we work together. This movie is about showing how being good and having values will almost always produce the winning hand.
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