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Very Brady Christmas 
Actors : Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb
Director : Peter Baldwin
Studio : Paramount
by Paramount
Release Date : 2000-06-06
Publisher : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9786302593099
UPC : 097368017139
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 26 reviews)
List Price : $9.95
Our Price : $53.00
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When will the DVD be sold separately? |
Our family likes to spend Christmas with the Brady family every holiday season. We bought the video years ago, and would now love to have the DVD. I already have all the seasons of Brady Bunch on DVD, and am not willing to buy the pkg. set for this holiday extra that is included.I thought for sure that it would be offered this Christmas Season, separately.
Bah Humbug to whoever makes these decisions! |
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A Very Brady Christmas |
I'm so happy to finally own a copy of this, even if it is on VHS. It really needs to be released on DVD!
Simple plot:
Mike wants to take Carol to Japan.
Carol wants to take Mike to Greece.
They each call all six kids, tell them their plans, but yet no one tattles. (Where's Cindy when you need her?) However, this is also when Bobby gets to deliver a classic line, after Mike asks him when to break the news to Carol, "After the first of the year, Dad." It's only when they run into each other at the travel agency that they figure out the snag in their plans. They come up with the idea to fly all of the family in for this Christmas, and voila, a reunion is planned. However, not is all well with the Brady family. Greg is missing his wife Nora, who chose to spend with Christmas with her family while Greg and Kevin (their son) fly into Mike and Carol's, Peter is worried about his relationship with his girlfriend, who is also his boss, Marcia's husband Wally has lost his job and doesn't want anyone to know, Jan and her husband Philip are in the process of separating, Cindy wants to go on a ski weekend and feels like she has to come home, and Bobby has dropped out of grad school to race cars (which foreshadows what happens in The Bradys, but thats another story).
I remember watching this when it first aired, and since has become a family favorite Christmas movie in my family. While totally out there and unrealistic, a Very Brady Christmas gives us what we all crave: A family Christmas where EVERYONE is able to make it. While it is unrealistic, it gives that feeling of going home again, and being part of that family that we all love. Who doesn't want that?
I'm really hoping for this to be released on DVD, with lots of DVD extras, a look back, interviews, the whole works.
This is a family tradition is I hope to keep in my family for many years to come. |
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The Brady Family Get Together |
This was a funny comedy movie. I don't know if this title will ever go to DVD but the cover of this box, why is Robert Reed at the top and Florence Henderson on the bottom? They all look different on the cover. Mike Lookingland looks like a doll of somesort on the cover. First Ann B. Davis stays with Mike and Carrol after her husband Sam the Butcher leaves her for a younger woman. All the kids are grown up and moved out. Susan Olsen wasn't in this movie because she was on her honeymoon when the movie started. I found that on wikipedia. The first to get a hold of is Marcia ( McKormik ) who has a cute little girl and a bratty boy. Her husband got fired from his job at the toy factory he worked at and he never wanted to hear the word toy again when Robert Reed asks him later in the movie how do toys come in good in Christmas? Then Jan ( Plumb ) is seperating from her husband Phillip. They do not tell Mike and Carrol until 20 minutes before the end of the movie. They are taking all of their personal items. When Mike asks them if they had ideas for kids they both split away. There are a couple scenes where Phillip wears glasses. Then Cyndi ( Runyon ) is going skiing with her college friends. But then she decides that she will do what she wants and she admits to her roomate that she wants to go home for Christmas. The original Cyndi ( Susan Olsen ) was on her honeymoon when the movie first came out. She looks like a clean college student but I think they made her roomate have alot of boyfriends and I don't feel like saying that word on the computer. Then Greg ( Williams ) is a married doctor with one child. A boy but not a brat. Greg's wife Nora works at the same hospital that Greg works at and the wife of the side is getting Greg with their boy and Nora will go to her parents. Then Peter ( Knight ) is thinking about marrying his boss at his plant. He brings her to the reunion. Then Bobby ( Lookingland ) drops out of grammar school to be a racecar driver and doesn't say a word about it to Mike and Carrol. Then Mike has to go to a builind site to free these builders in the inside of this cave-in. He free's them but then he gets stuck between all this debree. Will this be a Merry Christmas or Mike's last year on Earth? Find Out In This Funny Movie.
Grade: A - |
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A Christmas treat at #8 |
Where do you beging with a movie of this quality? I'll start with Alice. Sure, one might question why you still have a housekeeper after your children all leave and she doesn't seem to do anything but spout off hokey lines, but there's her old tired butt complaining about how Sam done her wrong. She's completely pointless, but Ann B. Davis plays pointless better than anyone this side of Corey Haim.
This movie is full of shenanigans and tomfoolery starting with Mike and Carol trying to book vacations at the same time to different places? Well, they meet at the travel agency!! They end up deciding to blow their money to fly their kids home for Christmas. This is where the true fun starts. Greg is a doctor and his wife with an attitude problem decides she is going to spend it with her family instead of his. After watching the Brady's, I can't say I blame her. Peter is dating his older boss, who is a total hottie. He is sleeping his way to the top in grand fashion. It's weird watching him knowing he's now on reality TV married to a ditzy model with issues. Bobby is the wild card of the brady family, always has been. You could go back to the Hawaiian tiki doll episode (Dooo deee dooo) and see that Bobby wasn't going to be contained by society. Well, the doofus drops out of school to become a race car driver. Evidentally the producers didn't realize that you have to be related to someone or have connections to be a top flight NASCAR driver.
Onto the girls. Marcia is still pretty dang hot, but somehow ends up marrying a whiny guy who looks like a cross between the lead singer of the Scorpions, lead singer of the Tubes and your dad. He gets laid off from his job, presumably for being a dork, and degrades himself througout the movie much to everyone's delight. It's kind of cool when a loser realizes they are a total loser and if there has ever been a loser bigger than this guy, I'd like to see him. Age hasn't been kind to Jan in this feature and her husband agrees as they are separated. They trade out Susan Olsen for a much hotter Cindy in this thing much to my delight.
You wouldn't believe the crap that happens in this unless you see it, but let me run it down. If you don't want to know what happens, please stop reading now. I know you can't stop though because my reviews are addictive. They are comedic crack.
Greg's wife shows up, Peter gets engaged to his boss, Bobby tells the family he wants to race cars and everyone is cool with it, Marcia's husband tells everyone he's a loser, Jan and her guy get back together, Cindy has no real point, Alice gets back together with Sam and Sam actually calls her a cut of meat, Carol smiles and Mike tells everyone that he loves men more than anything on earth. I'm kidding on that last part, he actually ends up being trapped in a building and emerging unscathed after the family sings Christmas carols to free him.
So why is this movie the number 8 film of all time? Like other reviewers have said, the acting is horrid, the storylines are completely ridiculous and everyone looks like they are just waiting for their check from this thing. Due to those factors, this ends up being one of the funniest movies ever made. I laughed several times out loud and nearly soaked my pants. There is not much other comedy that can do that. Maybe a Sinbad stand up show or Peeks going ballistic over a golf ball hitting his car, but not much else. |
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So Bad It's Great |
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This is the ultimate cheesy Christmas special, which is much like a bad car wreck: you want to look away but you just can't. The contrived storylines and over-the-top ending (the architect emerging from the rubble of a damaged building) are only enhanced by the extremely poor acting. Every time I cringed at something so bad with this show I found myself unable to change the channel. Buy this movie in VHS format. It will change your life. |
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