The only attempt at stretching the wooden characters involves middle daughter Jan being teed off at perfect older sister Marcia and throwing a few fits. We smile the first time.

This is enormous fun, one of the best TV adaptations to date, and guaranteed to provoke a nostalgic misty eye and mischevious grin in anybody who's ever owned a crimplene tank top.

A curiously sour movie in its amused contempt for this fatuous family.

The Brady Bunch Movie offers fun for the whole family while paying homage to the original series.