everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This movie was mega crap. The writers should be fired, flogged, and thrown into a lake ... and the actors should be tossed in after them. This movie seriously lacked in the intelligence category, but sure made up for it in the suckiness category. The way the (vey elderly) parents acted toward each other from the beginning of the movie, scared the heck out of me! they were gross, awkward, and flat out cheesy, not to mention disgusting. The way they were oblivious to the problems of their children, that seem to slap them in the face was incredibly unrealistic. There was a lot of singing in this movie too ... a heck of a lot. It was awkward as crap, and made you want to either throw all the actors off of a cliff, or toss yourself off of one. Peter wore the scariest onesy ever, to bed one night ... it was like watching your mother get her face ripped off by a zombie. Then, what's with Peter not having the guts to ask his hot girlfriend to marry him?? They end up asking each other on the count of 3 ... cut my neck off. And Cindy's problem was that she is the youngest......... like really??? She's supposed to be graduating college and she still hasn't gotten over that fact that she is the youngest? Geez grow the crap up! And Greg's stupid self looked like Mario with a lab coat. The way he made out with his wife in his office made me seriously consider rinsing with Listerine for the next hour and a half. And don't even get me started on Marcia's husband........ what a turd muncher!! He talked in this whiny voice and was always crying like a little girl about some stupid toy factory that was barely explained by these sorry excuse for screenplay writers! Every one of these pathetic "adults'" problems were summed up in a matter of seconds..... no really they were summed up in SECONDS........ which makes us all wonder....... why the freak did it take the whole movie to actually fix them? FINALLY, the movie ends with Mr. Brady having to go save 2 people from a crashing building. Why on earth an ancient architect would be more valuable than a seasoned firefighter squad will never be known, in this world or the next. He runs in to save them, only to get trapped himself like the douche bag he is. So instead of calling another architect, OR THE FREAKING POLICE FORCE! Everyone basically sits around for about 8 hours outside the building, hoping that SuperMike will pull himself out of the hole he's gotten in. After about 7 hours and 55 minutes, they all decide to sing a Christmas carol in celebration of his demise. Unfortunately, out comes Mr. Brady without a single scratch to spoil their high hopes of his death. Then, the movies ends with Sam the Butcher coming back to Alice after cheating on her. He makes an 8 second apology, and all is well that ends well. This movie is just the worst. on a scale of 1 to 10 this is a -18738479324794! If this movie doesn't send you to the Happy Farm, it'll leave you cutting your wrists or sending a bullet through your face. Thank the Good Lord that this sorry "film" (and I use that word loosely) didn't drag on longer than an hour and a half.

A Very Brady Christmas (1988) ** (out of 4) Instead of going on a vacation to Greece, Carol and Mike Brady (Florence Henderson, Robert Reed) decide to instead invite the six kids and their families to a Christmas dinner. What the parents don't fully know is that all six are facing certain issues that will come out over the holiday. A VERY BRADY Christmas is a pretty silly and pretty stupid little picture but fans of the original TV show should still find it entertaining. I remember watching the show as a kid and enjoying it even though it certainly didn't represent any sort of real life that I knew. This film once again offers up the basic idea of the series, which is that everyone faces a problem but at the end the father will give a speech that makes everyone see things the correct way. I think the biggest thing working against the movie is that they just have so much to do in such little time and this makes for some pacing issues. We basically see Mike and Carol. We then are introduced to the six kids and their problems. Everyone comes together and one by one the problems are solved. There's certainly nothing ground-breaking here but it was still a fun way to get the original cast members to return (with the exception of Cindy) and fans should enjoy seeing them together. Both Henderson and Reed haven't missed a beat in their parts and the kids all do fine as well. Ann B. Davis, on the other hand, is pretty annoying here but this is certainly the fault of the screenplay more than anything else. A VERY BRADY Christmas isn't good enough to watch on a regular basis but it's still got enough bad charm that makes it worth watching just to see the cast members back in action.

No one ever claimed that the Brady's are award winning material, and that's fine with me. We don't watch the Bradys for mental stimulation, we watch them to make us feel like a kid again. Sure the plot is corny, the script is weak and the acting is as cheesy as ever, but isn't that what makes the Bradys special? No one can tell me that "Don't be sorry, just be Wally" isn't one of the greatest lines in Brady history. Those of you who choose to bash the Bradys should maybe chill out a little and realize that the Bradys have been around for over thirty years because loyal fans like me can appreciate the whole corny thing. I will continue to watch it every Christmas and I invite everyone else to as well. Long live the Bradys

Ok, someone tell me that this isn't for real? Poor Dad gets trapped in a construction accident and they still sing christmas carols without him? Some one should beat the writers of this script into a bloody pulp. I like The Brady Bunch, but this is de-grading.