The Brady Bunch in the White House was a pretty good movie, much better than I expected it to be. There were no appearances by any of the original cast or crew, although the script was written by Lloyd Schwartz and Hope Juber (Sherwood Schwartz's son and daughter both of whom worked on or appeared on the original Brady Bunch TV series). I enjoyed the film as the casting was (in my opinion) better than in the first 2 Brady feature films where I think they cast the actors too old (e.g. Marcia in The Brady Bunch movie was played by a 25 year old.) The storyline was a bit far fetched with Mike becoming president of the United States, and Carol being both the Vice President and First Lady and the family moving into the white house. Peter played ball in the house and broke a priceless mink vase which starts leaking right in the middle of a state dinner :p The character of Jan is like in the 2 previous movies, making a bit of a mockery of her and her inner voices which I don't like as that only happened in one episode. I enjoyed all the references to old episodes made in the film. There were several musical numbers, some on a patriotic sort of line but also the well known songs Time to Change and the theme song were done by the new cast. There was only one part where there was an attraction between Greg and Marcia and only when they were in the underground safe zone cos they thought a metiorite was going to hit the earth and they would have to start a new civilisation ;)... Yeah so all in all I very much enjoyed the movie, at first it was difficult to adjust to the new faces for the kids and Alice (this Alice is tooo skinny :p) but Mike and Carol are the same and just as good as ever. This movie was released on DVD and VHS in Australia on the 23rd of May and was on US TV in November of 2002.
Review of The Brady Bunch in the White House
The Brady Bunch in the White House
(2002 TV Movie)
Funny new adventure starring Brady Bunch
31 May 2003