A Very Brady Sequel
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| A Very Brady Sequel | |
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| Directed by | Arlene Sanford |
| Starring | Shelley Long Gary Cole |
| Music by | Guy Moon |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  August 23, 1996 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Brady Bunch Movie |
| IMDb profile | |
A Very Brady Sequel is a 1996 comedy film that is a sequel to 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie. Both films are parodies of the classic 1969-1974 television sitcom The Brady Bunch.
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[edit] Plot
In this sequel, a man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20 million ancient Asian artifact. As was the case with the first film, the sequel places the Brady family in the 1970s, with much of the humor coming from their clashes with 1990s cultural values. When Roy's ruse is discovered, he kidnaps Carol and takes her and the artifact to the buyer in Hawaii. Thus the remaining Brady family has to take a family trip to Hawaii to save their mom and make sure that Martin is arrested.
The film was a moderate box office success, although not as successful as The Brady Bunch Movie. A second sequel, the made-for-television The Brady Bunch in the White House aired in November 2002.
[edit] Cast
The sequel featured the same cast as the 1995 film:
- Shelley Long as Carol Brady
- Gary Cole as Mike Brady
- Tim Matheson as Roy Martin/Trevor Thomas
- Christine Taylor as Marcia Brady
- Christopher Daniel Barnes as Greg Brady
- Jennifer Elise Cox as Jan Brady
- Paul Sutera as Peter Brady
- Olivia Hack as Cindy Brady
- Jesse Lee as Bobby Brady
- Henriette Mantel as Alice Nelson
[edit] Trivia
- The film's title references and lampoons that of the Brady Bunch TV movie A Very Brady Christmas.
- The film features a variety of cameos, including RuPaul, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Eden, David Spade, and David Huddleston.
- The film references contemporaries of The Brady Bunch: Gilligan's Island (with a joke suggesting that Carol's first husband was actually the Professor who had been lost at sea on the Minnow many years ago), I Dream of Jeannie (with a suggestion that Jeannie was Mike's first wife), and The Brady Kids cartoon in a brief animated sequence by Bob Peluce/Kurtz & Friends, featuring Oliver's rendition of Good Morning Starshine, and also including the twin pandas and the magical bird from the cartoon series.
- Tim Matheson, who played Carol Brady's first husband, and Gary Cole, who played her second husband Mike, would also both appear in the television series The West Wing; Matheson would play Jed Bartlet's first Vice President and Cole would play his second Vice President.
- The movie parodies the Brady Bunch episode where Jan makes up her boyfriend "George Glass." In the movie, Jan actually finds him.
- The movie insinuates that siblings Greg and Marcia had a sexual relationship.
[edit] Reception
The main criticism of the film was that while the first film parodied the show and portrayed the characters as clueless to their surroundings, this time the film went too far and portrayed the Bradys as complete idiots, akin to characters from Dumb and Dumber (particularly Jan and Alice).
This is sometimes blamed on the film having a different director and group of writers than the first film.
However, some have also praised the film for its clever references to other shows. For instance, when Mike Brady goes to the police station, the scene is a parody of Law and Order and similar cop shows (Richard Belzer parodies his Homicide: Life on the Street character in this scene). This scene is filmed like a cop show with the use of a handheld camera and closeups, while the rest of the film is shot like a sitcom, with static camera and medium shots.
The unexpected reference to Gilligan's Island towards the end is also praised as a clever gag.
