recommended

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

There aren't words pathetic enough to describe this awful movie!! Why did Gary Cole even agree to star in this pile of crap?

I had heard about this movie before seeing it. I was aware all of 6 kids were recasted, I was not aware that Alice also was. The two parents remain the same and that is all.It really is a sequel to "a very brady sequel" and we have to just go along with the recasts. The last film they were looking like college students in high school, so I didn't mind. The recasts do the job well and I forgot about it quickly. Some of the run on jokes are still there and it is clearly a sequel. The new people do the job well, I actually found the little girl a lot funnier this time around.In fact there was one joke with her that made me laugh my butt off, way harder then I had in the previous 2 movies actually. I won't spoil it, but it has something to do with trophies. I wonder if anyone else finds it as funny as I do.I had expected to hate this movie with everything said about it. To my surprise, I loved it. I even would call it my favorite of the 3. It was funny and entertaining. It also fixed something which had bugged me about the other films. It gave balance to the main characters better. A disproportionate amount of time was going to the oldest boy Greg and the oldest and middle girls Marcia and Jan in the last films. The other 3 were mostly ignored or just background.Anyway don't listen to what everyone else says about this movie. Try it for yourself. I got it as a 4 pack cheap at Walmart and was glad I enjoyed it so much. The 4th film was Growing Up Brady.

This movie is an insult to BB fans. It lacks the charm and wit of the first BB movie. Nothing is funny. Since the action takes place in the White House instead of the Brady House, nothing makes sense and politics isn't funny. Long and Cole are too old for their parts (and they barely phone in their performances) and none of the kids or Alice look like their series counterparts.It's hard to believe Sherwood Schwartz was associated with this terrible movie. The writing is boring, the musical numbers are torture to sit through, and I hated everything about it. If you're a Brady Bunch fan, skip this movie.

This third move based on The Brady Bunch TV seems to have fallen off the radar spectacularly, which isn't surprising if you have seen it. It's an ultra cheap, poorly written quickie that fails to live up to the first two films in any way at all. Here, the Brady family become America's first family when Mike is elected president.That plot aside, the most shocking thing is that apart from Gary Cole and Shelly Long reprising their roles as the parents, all the rest of the main cast (the six children and Alice) are now played by different actors. This means that the whole movie looks like an imposter, with 80% the original characters replaced but still trying to maintain the illusion that we are actually watching the same Brady family. The actors playing the six children seem to be making a brave stab at things, but its very obvious that rather then caricaturing the original TV show cast, they are trying to mimic the cast who were doing the caricatures in the first two Brady Bunch movies.Most of the children are forgettable, but the biggest loss is not having Jennifer Elise Cox as Jan Brady, which was originally a demented re-working of the TV character, but here, the actress playing Jan simply mimics all the mannerisms of Jennifer's performance rather than playing Jan Brady at all. I would presume that the script is to blame here as she has all the same types of lines and is (presumably) told to grimace, pout, and walk with her hair swinging from side to side just as the character did in the other movies. Equally jarring is the replacement actress who plays Alice, who seem to contort her face wildly and jerk about like a robot in an attempt to become a doppelganger of Henriette Mantel's version. Marcia just seems annoying rather than foxy, Greg is like someone wearing a fancy-dress costume of Greg, and Cindy is totally unrecognisable. The only pair that come off unscathed are Bobby and Peter, and that's because, well, nobody is interested in Bobby and Peter! Even Shelley Long and Gary Cole seem to sleepwalk through their scripts. Shelly Long in particular seems to have lost any warmth she had, and the script gives neither of them any decent lines or jokes to work with.The threadbare plot hardly seems to matter when you're watching such a creepy cast of bodysnatchers trying to resurrect an originally funny franchise. No wonder it sank without a trace. I would advise you not to spend money on this one, and only watch if you have a morbid curiosity.