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The Next Picture Show

#079: (Pt. 2) Baywatch / The Brady Bunch Movie

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We brave the choppy comedic waters of the new BAYWATCH movie to see how it stacks up against the parodic TV-to-film genius of 1995’s THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE. Spoiler: Not well. But the comparison allows us to unpack the nuances of each film’s comedic approach, and consider how the films’ respective approaches to self-awareness, casting, and sophomoric humor contribute to their overall success. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE, BAYWATCH, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.  Your Next Picture Show:  * Genevieve: Howard Zieff’s PRIVATE BENJAMIN * Tasha: “Logan: Superhero Movies Get Old” by YouTube user Nerdwriter1 * Keith: Goran Olsson’s THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.4

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:20.1

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:26.9

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:34.0

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:40.6

I'm Tosh Robinson, here again with Scott Tobias and Genevieve Katsky. Keith's sitting this one out so he can go run up and down a beach in slow motion, but we're assuming he's going to tire himself out and then he'll be back soon.

0:51.0

On the first step of this episode, we looked at Betty Thomas's 199595 comedy The Brady Bunch movie, which reproduced the 1970s TV staple

0:58.3

the Brady Bunch on screen with just a little bit of winking at the audience about how

1:02.2

campy the original show looks today. In this half, we're headed to the beach for

1:06.0

Baywatch, featuring Dwayne Johnson and Zach Ephron as lifeguards who keep exceeding their

1:10.3

mandate and

1:10.9

running off to solve crimes. Like the Brady Bunch movie, Baywatch is full of visual gags and pointed

1:15.8

nods to the audience in the fourth wall, but the actors mostly keep straight faces and pretend

1:20.0

that they're in a real drama, where it actually makes sense for the shlobiest guy on the beach to get

1:24.1

hired as a lifeguard and score the girl of his dreams. And it also mostly makes sense for a murder mystery, a drug cartel blowout, and a kidnapping

1:31.4

to all happen within 10 feet the busiest lifeguard station on the beach.

1:35.2

We're staring into the abyss here. City Council's already cut our funding. It's up to us

1:39.9

to restore the Baywatch brand. I'm Matt Brody, ready for duty.

1:45.5

You just, uh, look at my boobs?

1:47.1

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