Growing Up Brady
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Movie Reviews of Growing Up Brady
Movie Review: Growing Up Brady
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw this movie when it aired on television and thought it was a great movie. I think it really does a justice to the book, which I read right after I saw the movie. Hopefully, the movie will be just as good as how I remembered it to be!Movie Review: Not real impressive
Summary: 1 Stars
I wasn't impressed by this biopic. It just seemed really clumsy and pointless. I'm guessing it was a pretty low-budget project and most of it just seems like a half-step above something done by a film school student. I *love* Barry Williams' book, which has a great narrative and gives some nice blow-by-blow accounts of some tumultuous things that went on behind the camera for five years. The highlight of Williams' book is the details of the feuding between Sherwood Schwartz and Robert Reed - the film just barely touches on this. In the lead as Barry, Adam Brody does as well as can be expected. But there is absolutely zero chemistry between him and the actress who played Maureen McCormick, as opposed to the real-life magnetism between Barry and Maureen that lasted for a while. Incidentally, the actress who played Maureen was a dog - whereas Maureen (and Christine Taylor, a dead-ringer for her in the BB Movie) was and still is a sizzling hot babe... A good portion of the film focuses on how the kids got moved into a musical career with their BB stage act, and getting an agent to represent them. The beginning and ending are extremely corny - with Williams entering the Paramount Studios lot while having conversations with a cabbie and a network exec on the lot about "if Greg and Marcia ever...did anything". If you want the real thing, just read Barry's book instead, it tells the whole story very well - and so vividly that you can almost feel like you were there. This DVD....don't waste your time or money.Movie Review: Talk about doing it for a paycheck....
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a terrible insult to Brady fans everywhere. This just shows what was going on behind the cameras, literally, while they were filming, the kids would be goofing off behind the camera, the little petty fights they had and Barry trying to get laid as often as possibe, just because he was bored.
Then, it just kinds of cuts off and ends with the real Sherwood Schwartz appearing and staggering on screen for a few minutes to tell Barry how great he was a how messed up everyone else was....
Don't waste your time like I did, just enjoy the Brady shows....