1985’s “Brewster’s Millions” was a slight change of pace for star Richard Pryor, tasked with toplining a semi-gentle PG-rated comedy about a baseball player offered a massive inheritance if he can spend a fortune in 30 days. The feature (inspired by a 1902 book by George Barr McCutcheon) did some business, but certainly not enough for a sequel. Nearly 40 years later, BET decides to resurrect the brand name for “Brewster’s Millions: Christmas,” which is positioned as a follow-up to the Pryor film, but has almost nothing to do with it. Instead, the picture is Hallmark Channel-style fluff that’s weirdly without a sense of humor, pushing for a softer holiday vibe instead. There’s no madcap sense of fun here, just a weird IP resurrection from a production team that likely never even watched the 1985 release. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com