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  Review by Steve Sandberg ★★★★½ 5

  The Brady Bunch Movie has become something entirely fascinating since its release in 1995, as we, in the present, are now just about as far removed from The Brady Bunch Movie as The Brady Bunch Movie was from The Brady Bunch. Intended as a self-aware satire showing the wholesome sitcom family clashing with the cynicism of the '90s, the film adaptation now plays out like two distinct time capsules duking it out to see which is more worthy of ridicule, and that battle's outcome is... unclear.

  There's no explanation offered as to why the Brady gang is occupying the same house in the same suburb, all of them unchanged after 20 years. Was time travel involved? Or are they themselves…

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  Review by nathaxnne (hiatus) ★★★★½ 51

  70's nostalgia dominated the early 1990's from clothes to music to rerun tv to drug use patterns. it was our atmosphere. we watched blaxploitation vhs, andrei tarkovsky movies, starsky & hutch on tbs, flirted or worse with heroin, jammed electric miles. it was all around us, all-pervasive like weather, and we knew it was coming before it was there. people of my generation were born into the 50's nostalgia of the 1970's and 1980's and had already survived the deadly 60's nostalgia of the late 1980's which at least allowed The Grateful Dead a chart hit, Prince to make psychedelic pop and like, the entire Less Than Zero soundtrack? so we were awaiting the 70's nostalgia before it came and thankful…

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  Review by claire 👁️ diane ★★★ 6

  every moment Jan is on screen is incredible. she plays it at an absolute gonzo pitch. but like all of the casting is perfect? bits like Jan riding her bike into bushes and fences because she refuses to wear her glasses are still so endearing. and Greg is pitch perfect in his total obliviousness and the perfect portrait of one decade's dreamy mutating into another's embarrassment. but my favorite thing about this movie is that while they sort of play Marsha's lesbian friend, Norine, as a predatory stereotype/punchline, she is just completely endearing and the movie makes sure to let her find another gay girl to be with and that was really sweet. i love you Norine. you are why…

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  Review by Jenessa ★★★★

  But Jan, you don't have any friends.

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  Review by John ★★★½

  I watched this film as a kid and found it funny even though I never heard or watched the show ,being a 90s kid, but I still liked it. Watching it as an adult, I found more stuff I liked. There's a lot of innuendos and it's pretty clever and satirical and was still funny. Jan Brady is one of the best characters in the film, she provided a lot of jokes that worked.

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  Review by Scumbalina ★★★★½ 8

  I've seen this more times than I can count. It was hugely influential on me but because of the obviousness of what it is, I've never openly given it due credit.

  My obsession with the Monkees started here. When Davy Jones walks on stage and sings "Girl" backed by a Faith No More wannabe band, I was forever changed. I got my first Monkees cd for my next birthday. It was a greatest hits. This one right here. Soon after I joined the Monkees fan club and became pen pals with another girl my age who was obsessed with the Monkees. We wrote each other letters about our favorite songs and which Monkee we had crushes on. Mine was Mickey,…

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  Review by Patrick Pryor ★★★★½ 5

  How did I ever forget The Brady Bunch Movie is Legit Good? It’s ground zero for that weird ‘90s nostalgia obsession for the ‘70s made even more unreal by today’s ‘90s mania. The harsh museum piece lighting and thrift chic set design in the Brady house look straight up unnerving like some deranged meticulous art installation from a bell bottomed Monkees bopping nostalgia nerd. And the flannel, soul patches, butt cuts, wallet chains, and occasional grunge and college rock jams seem garish broad and impossible. Way to provide double time travel to cartoon eras that never really existed, Brady Bunch Movie! I love how the whole production feels like a Redd Kross album come to life (in both good and…

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  Review by Jasmine ★★★½

  i can't believe those parents called their youngest kid a snitch this movie is so iconic

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  Review by Ava ☭ ★★★★

  the absolute fever dream i just witnessed

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  Review by mina ★★★½

  jan’s arc > joker (2019)

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  Review by Casey Malone ★½ 2

  Trying to find a movie to watch with a group I went out on a limb and suggested 4-5 movies from my Letterboxd watch list and this was the one someone agreed to. The next 84 minutes of leaden silence in the room as I bore the responsibility for people's bad time (EVEN THOUGH I WAS THE ONLY ONE THROWING OUT IDEAS) was my own personal hell. I haven't been on stage in a while because of the pandemic but it was the same exact sensation as bombing in front of a crowd. Except I also had to sit and watch the act. Woof.

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  Review by Keith 🍿🎥🎬📼 ★★★½

  Peter: "Yeah, if we don't raise $20,000 in one week, we'll have to move"

  Bobby: "And go to a new school"

  Jan: "And make new friends"

  Marcia: "But Jan, you don't have any friends"

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