what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Maureen McCormick was right to opt out of this for the main reason that it would've defaced her character as an alcoholic & so for further future reunions within the realm of possibility let's just push this to a parallel universe & disregard it upon Maureen's return too.Seeing Jonathan Taylor Thomas in an early pre-Home Improvement role & credited as Jonathan Weiss is very interesting among other things. Cindy teasing her boss Gary Greenberg "mistaking" the quote of "Mozel Tov" which means congratulations & good luck for Mistle Toe of which is hung in the door way at Christmastime for good luck whether or not as an immediate follow-up after A Very Brady Christmas was very cute.Cindy at Sunrise really makes her new character to give her new character. Next there's Peter who splits up with Valerie From A Very Brady Christmas of whom turns out his 3rd fiancé but the 2 prior ones split up with him and from here he continues to still have girl trouble in this series' short run.Next to explain why Peter did the splitting up this time? She just wouldn't being the boss leave her job behind even for Bobby any more to see him race than to care for him being injured.This is as much like Wally having job trouble & Jan Having conceiving trouble so she & Philip adopt a child.Next there's Bobby dreaming of being a sports star while being one as he did as a kid before becoming one makes a nice blend of the old times & the new times too.Bobby can stand up but not for very long upon being hurt in a race car crash.It's always good more to have reunions even more than "reunions" as this one was for the Brady Bunch's main theme that life rehashes itself a.k.a. the more things change the more they stay the same.The Best example of this is of course how in The Brady Girls Get Married & The Bradys how for some reason as on the Brady Bunch The Wedding get's interrupted.Since Bobby wasn't really paralyzed but injured so for the next reunion or "reunion" he could just be cured without discarding this problem to a Parallel Universe.Some flashback footage is cute & helpful too but it's still just as well that this short lived show was exactly that,Yes that's exactly right short lived.Originally there was no theme song to open this show but then on The Fox Family Network (now known as abc family)on which it was probably rerun for the 1st time anywhere and for the 1st time in rerun syndication that the show then opened up with the voice of Florence Henderson a.k.a. "Carol Brady" singing one to the tune of The Brady Bunch theme song.As I found out later on and contrary to what Barry Williams a.k.a."Greg Brady" had said on my local Bostonian radio show of The Lost 45s in an interview with Host D.J. Barry Scott that "Hardly anybody watched this & so maybe if they just checked in every 3 years then maybe it would be okay." But according to 2 of The A&E:Biography Follow-ups on both Robert Reed & The Brady Bunch it was really that Robert Reed was sick(health wise)and sick of the role of "Mike Brady" & so if it went any further,just as if there was a 6th season of The Brady Bunch he'd have been written out but all of his costars just couldn't have that & so that's why they had stopped when they had.As I've periodically said yes there can still be Brady Bunch reunions but just no more pregnant jokes & the last of which was in A Very Brady Christmas,the previous "reunion" of which scored this one.I still look forward to reunions even more than to "reunions." Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a."Ste" of Framingham,Ma.USA

Being a fan of "The Brady Bunch", I was interested when I first heard that CBS was going to release this show as a Spring replacement.Since I couldn't watch the episodes at the time it aired due to other commitments, I set the VCR for the first episode. When I watched it, I didn't like what I saw. It looked horrible. I thought that maybe it was a fluke, so I taped another episode and it was more of the same. What bothered me the most is it seemed like the Brady Family was going out of their way to say, "we are no longer that goody-goody little family you used to know and remember, way back when".Also, it seemed like every week, a new crisis struck the Brady family; From Marcia becomes an alcoholic, or Bobby becoming a paraplegic in a racing accident. You had to ask yourself what tragedy could happen next; Peter gets shot in a bank holdup? Or maybe Cindy ends up missing. With every week being what seems like "The Brady crisis of the week", it makes the show unbelievable and you end up thinking; No family could have as many problems as they do. Just watching it makes it painful to watch; Not painful in the sense that you're feeling the Brady's tragedy, but getting that "I can't take anymore of this crap" feeling.Only 4 episodes were aired and Maureen McCormick had the good sense to stay away from this "turkey". In a way, I felt it was 4 episodes too many.

Completely unexpectantly, the two-hour pilot of this uh, series, casually began to play on my television set. For reasons beyond me, it was called "The Brady 500," which was quite cutesy, but I could still tell it was the 'movie' that led to "The Brady's," a very dramatic one hour drama that reunites the they're together so often I'm surprised they're NOT a real family family of the Brady's... you know, Mike, Carol, Greg, Marica (a faux Marcia, not Maureen McCormack)... yes, THOSE Brady's from the corny sitcom "The Brady Bunch," only their lives are not so funny anymore.In "The Brady 500" Mike and Carol are basically the same, as is Alice, the "goofy" housekeeper, whom I think is either still working for them, or just hangs out at their house too often. Greg is married with child (a young Johnathan Taylor Thomas...which was not thrilling news to discover) and is an Obstitrician; Marcia is still married to Wally (from "The Brady Brides"), who's main talent seems to be losing jobs. His last one cost them their house, so they and their two precious children must move in with Mike and Carol; Peter is some womanizer (of all characters) who's been engaged four times, but can never find the right girl; Jan does not seem to enjoy communicating with her family much (stubborn middle child) unless it involves telling them all of her problems, which involve she and hubby Phillip (also of "The Brady Brides") and their inablity to have children; Cindy is a deejay, who is attracted to her older, widowed boss, and Bobby...well, he WAS a budding race car driver who gets PARALYZED during some big, important race. Oh, the horror. How will the rest of the Brady's cope with this dramatic struggle.Actually, Bobby's paralysis really seemed to take a back burner as the last forty minutes or so seemed to involve his love life with a jilted fiance, Tracy...whom he ends up marrying; as well as Wally's casually getting a new job (truly, nobody seemed to care when he announced it), and Jan and Phillip deciding to adopt and ending up with not a baby, but a young Korean girl, who seemed to only communicate by whispering in her new mommy's or daddy's ear. I guess other episodes probably dealt with Bobby CONTINUING to deal with his handicap--as well as a new wife; Jan and Phil's adjustments; Wally's new job, etc. I believe other plots also involved Mike running for--and winning--a seat on Congress; Marcia *howl with laughter* being an alcoholic, and many other dramatic, tensing situations. I think the Brady's even had to (oh dear) MOVE!!!!!Quality-wise, I found "The Brady 500" about on par with "A Very Brady Christmas," which means it passed the time, but wasn't all that great. The thing I had to wonder was, what was the point of reuniting the Brady family for a dramatic series, when everyone knows them as the corny, "comedic" Brady's. It presents a concept too hard to swallow (the three flashbacks to the original series did not help...and Dabs "Reverand Alden" Greer as the minister in Bobby's wedding cornily referring to Mike and Carol's wedding did not do much to help me take it seriously, either), which is probably why it didn't exactly go on to last for YEARS or even one year, I believe.

This show was actually very good.It works much better than you would think it should,and we come to care about the charachters just as much as we had in the original series.The acting is very good,and the writing was excellent.Watch for a young Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Greg and Nora's son ,Kevin.