The Brady Bunch in the White House

Starring:Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tannis Burnett, Chad Doreck, Autumn Reeser, Blake Foster, Ashley Drane, Max Morrow, Sofia Vassilieva, Alex Appel, Daniel Fathers, Timm Zemanek, Dennis Akayama, Noah Danby, Dan Duran, Hamish Robertson, Philip Williams, Barry Flatman, Marty Moreau, Eleanor Yeoman
Director: Neal Israel
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

GARY COLE CHANNELING ROBERT REED GETS A STAR
Far Out!
Not Brady, not funny
Last-ditch attempt to cash in on nostalgia
If I Could Rate It 0 Stars...

The Brady Bunch in the White House
Starring: Shelley Long , Gary Cole , Tannis Burnett , Chad Doreck , and Autumn Reeser
Director: Neal Israel
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2004-05-25

Customer Reviews:

GARY COLE CHANNELING ROBERT REED GETS A STAR.......2006-02-13

The only reason to watch this installment of the Brady Bunch Movie Franchise is to marvel at Gary Cole's dead-on impersonation of the late, great Robert Reed. This from a guy who once played an all-night radio talk show host on TV? Cole even physically resembles the Brady dad.

Too bad everyone else makes you moan for the originals. Though, I must admit, the producers/casting directors keep on getting great Marcias.

Oh, and the plot -- others have stressed that the plot is ludicrous and patently improbable, but that's not the real problem. The issue is this: would Mike Brady REALLY behave this way? It doesn't matter if you have to suspend disbelief; this is make-believe, after all. But a scriptwriter's first rule is DO NOT VIOLATE THE RULES OF YOUR CHARACTER'S UNIVERSE.And in the Brady Universe, Mike and Carol would not behave as they do in this flick.

Far Out!.......2005-09-03

This movie wasn't that bad.I like it better than A Very Brady Sequel.Marcia and Mike were good.Everyone else was too old,young,or just didn't look like the character.

Not Brady, not funny.......2005-02-08

"The Brady Bunch in The White House" is like Chinese food that's been left on the counter overnight - unappetizing and best left in the box.

My husband and I loved the first two Brady Bunch movies so we couldn't wait to order "The Brady Bunch in The White House". We assumed it had also been a theatrical release. If we had known it was a made-for-TV movie, we never would have ordered it.

If we had watched it on TV, we would have commented on how terrible it was after the first fifteen minutes and turned the channel to watch a rerun of The Simpsons. However, we paid $20 for it so we watched every agonizingly horrible moment of it.

Obviously, this TV movie did not have the budget of the earlier theatrical releases ("The Brady Bunch Movie" and "A Very Brady Sequel") so they could not afford to hire decent writers, a decent director or a decent cast. The actors playing the kids were not recognizable as the Brady kids with the possible exception of the young woman playing Marcia although she was not nearly as skilled as Christine Taylor from the first two movies. The "girl" who played Jan looked to be well in her twenties, Cindy was too small and almost incomprehensible with her lisp. The other kids were at least as bad.

The actress playing Alice brought no "Alice-ness" to the role. Instead she was like a stranger in the family and a damned unfunny one at that.

I had hoped that Saul Rubineck would add some much needed humour to this insipid script but although he was more professional than most of the other actors that littered the screen, he was not given a single funny line. But then nobody else was either.

Besides the obvious problems with this movie - bad script, bad acting, bad direction and bad casting, the main reason this movie doesn't work is that in this movie the Brady's are a part of the modern world. In the first two films, the Brady's not only don't live in the modern world, they don't acknowledge that there IS a modern world. That's the joke. They left the joke out of this film.

The bottom line is this movie is a stinker. Skip it. Don't buy it. Don't rent it. Don't waste two hours watching it on TV.

Last-ditch attempt to cash in on nostalgia.......2005-01-15

The only reason why I gave this movie two stars is the idea that Mike Brady would make a great and scandal-free (Were the writers trying to imply something?) president. I actually have no disagreement on that point.

I have a big disagreement with how Mr. Brady finds himself in the White House. The Brady Bunch was built on a foundation of cheese, but their White House occupancy is a new level of absurdity.

We never see Mike getting elected or undergoing any of the constitutional procedures which people are supposed to go through on their way to becoming the president. Don't tell me that everybody in the government is either so unethical or mysteriously gone that a California architect has to save the country. An eight year old could easily see through this movie's script.

I usually like political movies of all types, but this one even had me instead longing for the dentist's chair. It looks like a red, white, and blue version of the ill-fated variety hour (which was made with the television cast).

Greedy entertainment executives were placing the 'Brady Bunch' image on a product without first wondering if the overall concept was reasonably consistent with the tone and image of the original series. Why didn't anybody at the studios remember that a majority of people would NOT watch something just because it had the 'Brady Bunch' name on it?

Making matters worse, this project has yet another cast playing the Brady's; they make the movie cast actually look authentic by their collective lack of acting skills.

If I Could Rate It 0 Stars..........2004-11-07

...well, you know that cliche.

I'm a HUUUUUUUGE Brady Bunch fan. I'll definitely be one of the people who buys Season 1 of the original series on release day, if Sherwood Schwartz and Paramount ever release it. Also, I thought the Brady films were HILARIOUS!!! Shelly Long and Gary Cole made great Mike and Carol Bradys, and the actors and actresses who played the Brady Kids were funny and memorable.

Sadly, this third entry into the Brady Movie 'trilogy' is horrible, at best. Gary Cole and Shelly Long have to work with weak dialogue, a lame storyline, and a supporting cast that you wished could have stayed locked away in the Presidential Bunker for a long time. I think the only non-veteran actor or actress in the film that went on to something successful was one of the girls at Marcia's slumber party, who's currently in that irritating McDonald's commercial with that guy who can't find his Happy Meal toy.

I'm surprised that this film was even allowed to be broadcast on TV, it was so wretched. It definitely ranks (pun intended) with other misfires, like the Variety Hour and The Bradys spinoff. What's really sad is that I think this also puts the final nail in the coffin of the 'anything Brady' nostalgia phase, which also included the Growing Up Brady movie. After this film, I wonder if any more Brady-related projects will be made.

Customer Reviews:

Brady Bunch Whitehouse/ Growing Up Brady.......2005-09-12

It was a great buy. You will enjoy seeing some familar faces on Growing Up Brady. My suggestion is to purchase it. It was a well bought item thanks to amazon. P.S. dont order from Circuit City they just lose your stuff!

Brady Insanity!! .......2004-11-03

These movies are actually not that bad at all and worth it for most Brady maniacs. Here's a brief rundown:

1) The Brady Bunch in the White House - I've never really liked these Brady movies. I've felt since the beginning that they were mean-spirited & completely nonsensical (why on earth are the Brady's stuck in the 70s while the rest of the world is not? I understand how bizarre of a juxtaposition it provides for the spoof, but it's very one-note). That said, Gary Cole's take on Mike There's-always-a-lesson-to-be-learned Brady is especially hysterical. As the third installment of these films, "...White House" completely throws all credibility to the wind and presents us with a truly bizare, almost surreal, vision of the Bunch with them, literallly, taking over the country. The result is nothing great, but certainly funny enough in its own audacious way.

b) Growing Up Brady - This Barry Williams (Aka, Greg) backed TV pic aired on the original Brady mother station, ABC, in or about the same time as an awful, sensationalistic, FOX movie called - get this! - "The Final Days of the Brady Bunch," which was nothing less than utterly depressing. Here, ABC not only based the flick on material from Williams' book of the same title, but kept with the light spirit of the original show, only hinting at the behind-the-scenes bickering between Robert Reed & Sherwood Shwartz (executive producer of the show). Williams' claims that Reed & co. went to great lengths to make sure the kids weren't exposed to such ugliness, and Reed's homosexuality was not flaunted on the set. Here, the subject is treated with respect & taste, culminating in a scene where a young Williams confides in TV mom Florence Henderson, who dealt directly with Reed's unfortunate awkwardness on the set. The film could've gone a bit further, as Williams' book did, in relaying how much Reed truly cared about his Bunch, taking them on trip to Europe and lavishing them with expensive gifts.

ABC also scored with a winning cast, who for the most part look and behave an awful lot like their real-life counterparts. More than that, they seem very well schooled in their respective mannerisms. In fact, Bobby Brady is played by the son of Mike Lookinland, the originator of the role. He looks & sounds exactly like him!! They even duplicated the black hair dye job that producers forced upon the blonde Lookinlad in the early days of the show. Speaking of duplication, the old Brady set is reproduced to a tee...right down to the familiar horse sculpture beneath the stairs.

Save Your Money.......2004-08-01

I loved the first two Brady Movies and when I saw this one, I rushed home to watch it. Not only does this film NOT have the original kids, it's a real bomb. Sad to say, it's not even worth renting and I was so disappointed. I also hate wasting money.

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