This is How Movies Should Be Made

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

If you think that you're a slave to your children, then get this.... On their honeymoon, Mike & Carol Brady were so lacking in any imagination (duh!) that (are you ready for this??) they actually brought all 6 of their demanding brats along with them (including Tiger, the dog, and Fluffy, the cat, too).... Sheesh! Spare me!! This very first episode (from Season One) about Mike & Carol's honeymoon, pretty much, set the pace and mood for what the viewer could expect from all of the episodes that followed.It really killed me how this show repeatedly tried to drive home the notion that even though these petty, little brats may have gotten up to some real devilish shenanigans, underneath it all, they were sweet, darling angels, through & through.I can't believe that this TV Sit-Com (which first aired in 1969) actually lasted for 5 seasons. Right from the very start one could clearly see that the script-writers lacked a whole lot of imagination. They seemed to be too intent on retaining the squeaky-clean wholesomeness of the entire Brady bunch at the expense of allowing even a few marginally risqué moments to sneak into the show's silly & predictable situations.Anyhow - The way I see it - You either like The Brady Bunch, or you don't. It's as simple as that.... (And, that is how they all became The Brady Bunch!)

This is on my list of worst 5 programs to have ever been made in the US. The list in no particular order are this, The little house on the prairie, The Waltons, champion the wonder horse and perhaps the worst of the lot Joanie loves Chachi.The idea for this was quite good. 3 girls 3 boys and 2 parents growing up together so where did it all go wrong ? The scripts were terrible, the acting equally bad and everything was completely unbelievable and far removed from American life.Added to this was one of the most annoying them tunes ever written for the small screen and we have the complete disaster. Awful, really really bad and a blessing to the current generation that they have not been subjected to this,

They've always been my favorite family of which they'd always be my main theme for looking forward to Friday Nights for.Friday Nights were never the same without The Brady Bunch once they came into being.I'd still look forward to their TV Reunion Movies with the whole original cast intact even without the Dear Old Dad. As I've periodically said there can still be Brady Bunch Reunions but no more pregnant jokes & the last of which was heard in A Very Brady Christmas.It was on one episode that Carol had a hard time convincing Jan for an hour that she wasn't having a baby while on the arrival of Oliver episode,both Bobby and Cindy was the first to hear just the 1st part of the conversation that Carol started with Mike that lead Cindy to say to Bobby "Did you hear that Mom's going to have a Baby?"The old times that resurface into the new times including Marcia,Marcia,Marcia are really cool too.but to experience a forward reminiscence going backwards is really something when after seeing Kartoon King in his prior role in the movie called The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.I knew he looked strikingly familiar & then I had later figured out it was on this show where I'd seen him first.This Actor is Hal Smith check out the Christmas episode for him as Santa Clause,one of my favorites for Cindy's wishful thinking that he could get her Mommy's voice back so she can sing in the Church on Christmas Day & she gets to.Also check him out as Otis on The Andy Griffith Show.You may ask me & just about any episode will take away nostalgically except for the Safe Detergent one but the Get Davy Jones one especially sends me with the "Girl" song. The Late Great Robert Reed refused to appear in the last episode, feeling it was because just too unrealistic and so if there'd been a 6th season,he'd have been written out & there was a similar case later for The Bradys.So Check that one out on that site as well as The Brady Bunch Movie,A Very Brady Sequel,The Brady Girls Get Married,The Brady Brides,A Very Brady Christmas,and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour a.k.a. The Brady Bunch Hour,The Brady Bunch Home Movies,Unauthorized:The Brady Bunch,Growing Up Brady,and Still Brady after all these years too. Truthfully, Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a."Ste" of Framingham,Ma.

remember this series, created by Sherwood Schwartz. Yes, it is silly, yes Carol and Mike have the perfect marriage (that no one has) and perfect kids who screw up, but learn a value lesson from their mistakes.I remember as a kid, watching this and my Dad laughing: "How come Mike Brady never works?", (lol); that is so true- no families were like this; BUT that is why people liked watching it.Carol Brady (Florence Henderson) is a bit too plastic, but always comes through for the kids. Jan is annoying, Peter was humorous, Marcia and and Greg as the oldest provided more interesting plot points. People grew up relating to the characters, or they wouldn't have made the 1988 "Very Brady Christmas".One favorite episode is the trip to Hawaii. It was a big trip for the Brady family, and American kids wanted to follow suit, take a trip to Hawaii and get lost in the tiki cave- chased by Vincent Price.It is good clean fun that kids used to watch- for a seven year old, I would rather have them watch this than some reality trash. At least this series was made before the more jaded era we are in now; and young kids still enjoy this show. Notably, Sherwood Schwartz once commented that he created this show with the 1970's American family in mind. Divorce was on the rise, and this show was merely wish-fulfillment. Interesting.