NutzieFagin To those who have watched the Brady Bunch...God! I can't believe it's been that long! If you have watched the series and are a full fledged Brady Bunch fan, then you will enjoy A Very Brady Christmas for your holiday movie viewing.Shot on the original set, ...and with a few decorative updated changes, Mike and Carol are contemplating how to spend the holidays. And how would family oriented parents spend it---by inviting the whole family!! Of course, not all is perfect with Americas lovable family. Work Stress, tough life career decisions, and divorce loom in the air. But in true Brady and television fashion, all crisis are solved by the end of the episode. ....except one last very life threatening situation.True, it IS a TV movie based on a TV series. The dialog is tin pan and the acting is grade B acting. But remember, A Very Brady Christmas is a Christmas story fantasy like Frosty The Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. The "miracle" ending is laughable but very heartwarming and memorable.In other words, take it what it is. A Very Brady Christmas should be loved by fans. The Christmas message is that family is most important and possibly with their help we may fulfill our hopes and dreams.--or as Alice says "It's nice to have family" If you never seen the series, you may be dismayed by the sugary sweetness of the characters. So take a Very Brady Christmas as it is....a family celebration of togetherness that may be sometime to sweet to take, but it goes down like an enjoyable Christmas pie!

Stebaer4 I suppose what I may've liked best about this was the prologue to it of which was seen the 2 times that it was played on CBS & the narrator said"Do you remember those kids?" & then they showed that clip in which Alice had said "They're terrific."Then the narrator said "Well now they're all grown up,so join in on the fun,you're invited to have a Very Brady Christmas."I'm Never taken away by a stand in not of Cindy nor even Sam It's so bad that it's hysterical.It's incredibly dumb but still somewhat enjoyable.I'll admit they're revivals make them look worse each time around but it's a case of you can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em.They drift away for the same reason that they drift back.Its corny humor gets worse for the same reason the more they stay but for the same reason it's missed when they drift away.The Phone change of scenes similar to that as seen in The Brady Girls Get Married is also similar to the change of reading of the books by both parents when they change places on insistence that the other parents' job is simpler.The flash back footage of the camping trip along with the Santa & Little Cindy & mother Singing in the Church then flashing back to all of the family singing the same song of "Oh come let us adore him Christ The Lord." to give Mike the strength and stamina to reemerge from the rubble is cute.A stand in Sam was less of a thing than a stand in Cindy.As shown when Sam came in the Santa suit And was pleading for Alice to take him back.Among other things Peter and Valerie each do have a question to pop.But everyone in all has something to nearly make the Holiday a flop.This film also happily ends with Alice proclaiming the their dinner to be the best Christmas Dinner in the history of reheated Christmas dinners but would've been better if it had her pies of which just kept asking what happened to them when it was obvious & here is where the cynicism & sarcasm for this "reunion" had just gone too far too. Truthfully, Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a. "Ste" of Framingham,Ma.USA

sj1840 Christmastime just isn't complete for me without watching this movie. The Brady family reuniting for the holidays always produces warm fuzzies for me. The original show was cheesy and so is this reunion movie, but it is also surprisingly well acted by every member of the ensemble cast and hits upon some real truths about family togetherness. Jennifer Runyon seamlessly fills the shoes of Susan Olsen in this yuletide gathering, Maureen McCormick is as beautiful as ever, and Florence Henderson is still the sunniest and most perky television mom around. A TV movie can get away with being sappy if it's focused around Christmas, and this movie succeeds on every level as a feel-good holiday reunion film.

LUVJET This is a movie that is really only going to be tolerated by true "Brady" fans. We never really took them seriously as a family, but we loved watching them. The Brady's are, in deed, a non-existent family, but that makes them even more fun to watch- Escapism !!And now, the whole family (minus the original Cindy) is back together again in a less-groovy, updated surroundings, for a Christmas gathering, in Brady fashion. The whole house is full of Brady's and more Brady's (they've multiplied). Alice doesn't live here anymore, but she's got problems of her own and shows up at just the right moment- to help with Christmas dinner.A Very Brady Christmas is less than average t.v. fare if you were not a Brady fan. To those who watched faithfully every Friday night, you're gonna love seeing 'em in all their unbelievable camp, once again.