A VERY BRADY SEQUEL
A film review by Stephen Baker
Copyright 1996 Stephen Baker
Is it just me or does the sequel of a very successful film seem inferior to the original?
Well here's a perfect example to that statement. A Very Brady Sequel didn't have the freshness or the warpness of the original "The Brady Bunch Movie" After coming out of the showing of it, I thought that for myself.
Here we have a same rehash of some of the original episodes that aired before most of the people who will see this movie weren't weren't even born and didn't grow up with the show, even in the first time syndication. Although, there was some differences between the original episodes and this movie. Carol's so-called husband comes back from the dead, Greg and Marcia start to explore their sexual feelings about each other, and Peter loses his deep voice at the end of the original movie and goes back to the whiny high pitched voice that he had in the original film.
This is not a movie where you'll be getting any laugh out loud comedy but you do smile during the film and that must be acknowledged. I thought that the movie would have worked better if the Bradys were portrayed again as freaks as they were in the original movie, but mabye that's not the point of the film at all.
Ok here's the basic story-line of the film.
Carol's adventurer husband comes back from the dead to reunite with his wife (and also to steal a priceless horse sculptur). Caorl's husband is really her first husband's assistant Trevor who knows the second horse that was auctioned off for $20 million is in the posession of the Brady's and must get it to Hawaii to collect. Greg and Marcia fight over the attic as to who gets it because their both older. They end up sharing the room and start exploring their feelings for each other. Peter becomes a assistant to his dad at his firm for the summer which he doesn't want to do. Bobby and Cindy look for the Kitty-Kerry-All doll with a junior detective kit and Jan makes up her imaginary boyfriend. After stealing the horse from an auction Trevor kidnaps Carol and heads to Hawaii and the Bradys follow.
There is some predictibally in the film and you can almost figure it out before the final result. For example Carol gets a hair cut and comes out the same.
You can tell that this film will transfer to video well since it was filmed in 1.85 instead of the 2.35 wide screen aspect and it might have worked better as a straight-to-video release.
This film is for true Brady fans who will sit through 90 minutes of the rehash of the old tv show. If you don't like the show, don't see the movie.
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