A Very Brady Sequel
I actually saw this movie about a week ago, but I didn't write the review for it because I didn't know what to give it. On one hand, I thought the humor wasn't as good as the first movie's humor. On the other hand, the story was a lot better. So I was stuck struggling on whether to give the movie 2 1/2 stars or 3 stars. After a while, I decided that 3 stars was the better choice considering that there was still some good humor.
But that sense of humor almost crosses the line into tastelessness, especially when they have a subplot about Greg and Marcia in love with each other. I didn't find it funny or interesting. But then there is the subplot about Jan's jealousy of Marcia and her goal to get a boyfriend. I don't know why this subplot is so funny, but I guess it's just because Jennifer Elise Cox is so good. Her reactions to everything is hilarious, as in the first movie. In fact, some of her sequences are more funny than the first movie. The funniest has to be when she loses her contact lens while driving. ("Marcia...Marcia...you've turned out to be so gorgeous," Jan's real father tells Marcia. "Jan... isn't Marsha gorgeous?" This is the second funniest part)
Unfortunately, there isn't enough of that humor in the movie. Instead, there is humor like Greg drooling over Marcia and the real father of the girls eating his own psychedelic mushrooms. One truely awful moment is when Greg almost drowns and Marcia does CPR on him. When he wakes up and sees that it was Marcia giving him mouth-to-mouth, he quickly got up and ran into the ocean, saying, "Uh... something just came up."
As for the plot, which is a lot better than the first movie's, it mainly involves Carol Brady's (Shelley Long) ex-husband coming back from a shipwreck. He claims that he fell off the boat, but everyone else thought he had died. Now, Marcia (Christine Taylor) believes that she isn't related to Greg (Christopher Daniel Barnes). Unfortunately, Roy (Tim Matheson), her husband, has a secret of his own. He has a plot to get a $20 million horse that the Brady's think looks nice. But is Roy for real? It's pretty obvious, but I'm not going to ruin it.
A Very Brady Sequel is rated PG-13. The movie has a lot of sex-related humor, but thankfully the writers didn't give Jan too many sick jokes. The movie also has some language and violence. But with the nice plot and Jan, the movie turns out to be pretty good, but still could be better. If this movie had the same humor as the first movie did, then I would definately give the movie a better review. But for how it is, I can't really say it's very good, but I'll recommend it.