Siskel and Ebert review 'A Very Brady Sequel'
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html ?sec=6&subsec=a+very+brady
shareSiskel (R.I.P.) was on point. I usually disagreed with him on his picks and favored Ebert but this time he echoed my sentiments about this movie. I didn't like the original that much either. It was a clever concept but the jokes didn't work for me that much. The sequel was much funnier and the comedy doesn't hit you over the head and try to be to ambitious or smarter than it is. I still laugh out loud when I watch this movie and it's one of my favorites.
shareIt all depends on what's your humour. For instance I find them to be great comedies, very clever but masked so young people won't get many of the references.
But a quick question - if you're not really a fan of the movies, why did you write all that?
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Who said I wasn't a fan of the movies?? I never said that. Reread my original post. I said I didn't like the original Brady Bunch movie. I very much liked the sequel.
shareI watched their review, and it seems to me that they never watched the original series. Siskel talked about the Marcia/Greg relationship as if it was not at all tongue in cheek. He had to know that that was a play on the obvious sexual tension between the actors in the original show (there were rumors they hooked up.) He didn't get the joke. This doesn't work well if you aren't familiar with not only the characters, but also some of the plots (Hawaii, Attic Bedroom, Cheerleader/Class President Voting). Much of both movies is a direct parody of specific moments in the series.
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