BB in the white house= bad
Good lord this movie sucked. The first two were good. But this one was just bad bad bad! Enough said.
shareOkay. Imagine a room full of studio executives. Their job is to green-light the next great family movie. One eager young lad gets up and shouts, "We need Mike Brady as The President of the United States!" Seriously, can you just see a team of people working hard on this script saying things like. "No man, you have to make it Brady-er!"
The first time I came across this film I was busted out laughing at my office and I could not stop.
There is no escape. Don't make me destroy You!share
Actually, I think the realistic scenario went something like this -- Gary Cole played the VP in a couple of seasons of The West Wing.. one day on the set, someone said "hey, Gary, you were in the Brady Bunch and now you're in the White House"... and someone else said "wow, wonder if we could combine those two!"... Several crew members laughed at the ridiculousness of it..
but one person in the back didn't realize it was a joke and thought "yeah, we could sneak in and use the set during West Wing's lunch break!".. and, well, the wheels were set in motion...
LOL I'm sure this is EXACTLY what happened!!
shareI just heard of this movie recently. It was on Netflix streaming, so I watched it. The two theatrical movies were a hoot, so I was curious about this TV movie.
Yup, the premise was beyond ridiculous, but it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously of course. That said, I was still thinking, "This is horrible" and didn't think I would finish watching it. The actress who played Jan was awful, too campy and overdone. They basically just incorporated a lot of old BB plotlines into it. Towards the end however, I found myself laughing out loud (to my surprise) because it was just so silly. The Ming vase the boys tried to glue back together, and the kid's confessing to it (except Peter, who wasn't looking forward to the big camping trip, but rather, a trip to Camp David). And Marcia's slumber party, especially reading her erotic passage about Desi Arnaz Jr. I also thought the Senate hearings about all the horrible "misdeeds" of the Bradys - Greg caught smoking, Alice's recipe for meatloaf, Carol behind the "Save Woodland Park" rally.
I also liked how the Secret Service and other staff were falling into the Brady-ness of their surroundings. After Peter bursts into the Senate/House meetings and confessing to breaking the vase, one of the Senators asks, "Well, does Peter still get to go to Camp David?" At the drive-in, the movie playing was a cowboy/cattle rustling flick (in the Brady Bunch series, every time they're at a drive-in movie, it's always the same lame-o stock footage of a cattle rustling movie) -- and the Secret Service sitting in the back seat during Greg's date.
So, all in all, when viewed with the opinion that it's pure silliness (and if you enjoy that kind of thing), it's OK. I'll never watch it again, but it was OK.