The Brady Bunch Movie return home. The next day, the children join the "Search for the Stars" contest with a dated performance that receives poor audience response compared to the more modern performances of other bands. However, the judges — Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, and Peter Tork of The Monkees — vote for them, and they win the contest as a result. The tax bill is paid and their neighbors withdraw their homes from the market, foiling Larry's plan and securing the neighborhood. Later, Carol's mother (Florence Henderson) arrives and finally convinces Jan to stop being jealous of Marcia, only for Cindy to start
The Wild Bunch publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from "a reporter from the "Reader's Digest" [who] got up to ask 'Why was this film ever made?'" He compared the film to "Pulp Fiction": "praised and condemned with equal vehemence." "What "Citizen Kane" was to movie lovers in 1941, "The Wild Bunch" was to cineastes in 1969," wrote film critic Michael Sragow, adding that Peckinpah had "produced an American movie that equals or surpasses the best of Kurosawa: the Gotterdammerung of Westerns". Produced on a budget of $6 million, the film grossed $10.5 million at