Me and the husband both enjoy it here, we never have had a problem or issue with it being too messy or smelling like crusty old food or vomit. The staff are nice and pleasant and no where else can you get Nachos like here, they Hook it up and you definitely get what you pay for compared to other places. It's downtown Modesto where parking can be a pain but the prices for movies $6 to $8 can't complain and they validate for parking so it's a no-brainer.* Never dealt with any obnoxious people or crying babies, but we have 3 kid's ranging from 19mo to 7yrs and we take them to the theatre's! read more

This is usually my favorite movie theatre to go to in the area. Most of the employees are super sweet and kind. but today I had a bad experience with an employee named Danny who was working concessions. He was so rude and condescending and spoke to me and my family with sarcasm and bitterness. He needs to learn how to catch his tongue. Hopefully he gets talked to, and taught customer service. Also they are out of almost everything at concessions. Don't bother getting snacks. read more

Clean, free refills, and as a traveler they offered to safely store my possessions as I went to the bar. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

The seats don't recline? Really? Stay home in the Barcalounger then. I find this place quaint and inviting. I only wish our little hamlet had more of a downtown feel to it. With this theatre and the surrounding restaurants, the Gallo Arts Center and the "J Street" Corridor we will get there..... read more

I've always enjoyed going here for movies. The theatre is clean, the seats are comfortable and the prices are fair.

Their popcorn was stale, no unsweetened ice tea, & their recliners are sad. Won't be returning

This used to be the place to go see movies but after my last experience, no thanks. Movie time wasn't updated online and had to see a different movie since we were already there. Long lines at the concessions and bathrooms are filthy. Looks like half the clientele should be searched for weapons. People bringing small children into the theater late and cried and whined throughout the movie (not kids fault, they should be in bed). People on their phones texting or even answering a call! So distracting. They need employees policing the theaters not just walking in and leaving. Floors and chairs dirty and falling apart. Hopefully they'll bring this once beautiful theater back from the pit it currently is with new seating. read more

I went on a Tuesday to watch a movie. I arrived 18 min before the movie. I usually go to Regal. I don't mind waiting on line, but when the theatre is aware of how busy it will be and doesn't schedule for this I am pissed. When I walked up I was shocked that there was 30+ people in line and only 2 at the ticket window. My movie started at 12:10 I got to the window at 12:16 so I chose another movie, went inside and the lines for food was even worse. Again I saw 2 people at the registers and two long lines waiting for food. The second movie I chose started while I was waiting in line. So I asked for a refund and left. I will not return. This is ridiculous to do to your customers. If you know you have a $5 Tuesday special, then schedule for it!!!!!! I did not know it was $5 Tuesdays, I would have rather payed full price and not had the lines. Which is why I will go elsewhere. I payed for parking cause there is not a lot of street parking and I was ok with paying the extra parking payment, but then to wait in line for so long I can't justify the time or the management doing this to it's customers. I know you won't slow down cause $5 is a good deal for people on a budget. But you will lose some customers for making them wait to long. read more

its mind boggling to think that we're going through tough economic times if you see someone like johnny brenden making money. his dad owned mann theaters right? well this at least gives me solace in the fact that sometimes its just all about who you know. anyways, this place is in a really central location downtown. its a movie theater, they have movies. read more

Friendly service is the only thing this place has. They had a whole bunch of chairs broken popcorn and trash all over the place they need to clean after each showing! Nasty. I paid a little less then regal theaters never again read more

Well, the tickets are really cheap. Only $5 on Tuesday so we thought, what the heck- let's take the kids to see a movie. The lady at the box office was nice. But, the popcorn was absolutely outrageously priced. We didn't complain & still got popcorn, candy & drinks. The woman working the food area didn't seem in the best mood. The popcorn was stale. Gross, won't get that again. Anyways, we went to the actual room our movie would be showing in & it was empty- SCORE! It was really dirty in there. There wasn't anything on the floor but you could tell this place hadn't been deep cleaned in a looooong time. The seats were all ripped up & the floor was so sticky from dried up soda that was never mopped. It was pretty disgusting. Stopped on the way out and a bunch of stalls & sinks had "out of order" signs as well as the arcade.. That was weird. Leaving there were lots of weirdos outside, not a place I want to be with my kids in the dark, that's for sure. Kind of a rough area I guess. But, you get what you pay for I guess. read more

This place is a joke, cash only due non functional equipment. they had everyone paying a $3 fee to use atm and not offer anything free for the inconvenience , one one person working snack bar poor tall skinny white guy , and manager hiding in office behind her walkie talkie instead of being the face of her theater apologising to everyone read more

My husband and I went her on Saturday the 7th and hit the matinee prices of $6.00 a ticket! But then...we paid $13.25 for a large popcorn and a large drink! Walked into theater # 5 and it was empty so we were happy that we were going to get to sit in the middle of the row, however the first row that we went down looked like someone had thrown up and it hadn't been cleaned up. The second row that we went down the floors were all sticky from spilled soda and being that this was the first showing of the day it meant that the theater had not been cleaned from the night before. After the showing I had to use the restroom and they were filthy! Trash all over the floors and the first stall I tried to go into had no toilet paper and no toilet seat gaskets. One of the soap dispensers was empty and once again sticky floors! I grew up and Modesto and remember when there was pride taken in this place. I gave Brenden two stars because the seats were still comfortable and we got to see a great movie American Sniper. We rarely go to the movies but next time I think that we will make the longer trip to Galaxy in Riverbank read more

I enjoyed theater, great customer service from employees. Moreover new recliners are very comfortable. Low rating is because of inhospitable parking. There's a good chance of receiving parking ticket. Modesto city is low on cash and looking for new customers. I'll never patronize downtown Modesto again. read more

I have been coming here since I was a little kid and I watched all the other theaters become fancy and luxurious and brenden theaters became labeled at the "cheap" theater. BUT, now I can see that they are catching up to the competition. They now serve alcohol and food at a bar. They have REAL Icees (not the weird slush puppy ones)!! They are in the process of installing the luxury seats in all the theaters and already have them in a few. They also have a few other nice new amenities, and it's really exciting to see this happening for them. I am more inclined to come here for movies now that I've seen these improvements. Way to go Brenden!! :) read more

I went to buy three tickets with a bank card and the clerk overcharged me a dollar a ticket.When i said ,hey this doesn't add up correctly ,he tried to fumble through giving me change but not correcting it. He also looked very guilty and ashamed. i told the manager and he said ,o he always buys pizza for everyone at our get togethers,He can't be dishonest,," Well i guess they are both sneaky and taking advantage.Plus its filthy my shoes felt sticky walking in the theater. LOW LOW LOW life read more

Horrible Customer service in the Snack Bar. Every time I come here there's 1 male employee here that just can't get it right, takes long on placing the order and forgets what he's doing half of the time and just walks back and forth trying to remember what to do. Another time the Hubby picked up some Nachos for me, went back to tell them I wanted new Nachos since we asked for NO Chili, female employee had to ask I guess a "supervisor" if it was ok..? They weren't touched at all or half eaten so I don't know what the problem was and why she needed an OK? He then came and asked me what the problem was so I had to repeat myself, my movie was already about to play and he was taking his sweet time to get the Nachos as he chit chatted with another co worker and replaced the cheese bag, when there was clearly another cheese machine ready to go, I know this since I was watching other employees use it. I had to literally holler at him and tell him I was in a hurry since my movie had begun. I definitely knew at this point he was purposely taking advantage and taking his sweet time, I wouldn't have an issue if they placed the order right to begin with. At the end of the movie I came back for my drink refill and I believe it was the Snack Bar Manager who helped me, I was going to complain, but honestly he looked rude hisself and like he didn't even care about customer service due to the manner he assisted me as well. Hopefully this place gets better employees and management. read more

Went to see Dunkirk on Saturday and the theater was clean, reclining seats were comfortable, and the snacks were tasty. Enjoyed the movie very much except for the volume. I swear my ears were bleeding by the end of the show! Great surround sound, but too loud. If the volume had bad turned down a notch or two we would have had the perfect movie experience. read more

Took the kids tonight to see a movie, I was so disappointed to see where this theatre has fallen to. Dirty floors, dirty seats, no staff around to assist anyone. We would go there just for the popcorn, lo and behold they switched to a self serve option with the low quality fake butter and salt packets. We asked a manager to add butter and salt halfway to our popcorn, she refused and said they couldn't because it was unsanitary? Really? You have a pimply face guy scooping popcorn out to customers who looks like walking pizza, but you can't put butter in a box that you are already filling up? Yea right. Also wanna be thug teenagers hanging out in the hallways just hanging around cursing and trying to look cool with no real purpose of being there. But hey, if no one is around to check them I guess the can let all there homies through the side door without any problem. So long brendon, your end in business will come soon. read more

Good prices. Love the surrounding area. Only thing I hate is trying to find parking. Lol

What started out as an outing for a fun day quickly changed upon arrival. Unfortunately I'm temporarily using crutches so asked if they have any recliner. No/they're coming soon. The manager told us go to theatre 8 and booster seats are there. Thought I could use this to elevate my leg. No good as there were no booster seats at theatre 8. Was here early. No signs on theatre rooms have names of movies posted. Waited and waited. Movie finally started...the manager sent me to the wrong theatre room location. Next showing of movie I came to see doesn't play for 3 more hours. This was a lot of energy on crutches . Having to ask for the manager 3 times. Unacceptable customer service read more

Just came out of the theater where - after arriving early (to get a good seat) - there were NO benches outside of the show I was going to see - after buying stale popcorn (which you can NOT buy hot or freshly popped - even on a Friday night) where they do not even have Regular salt for the popcorn (much less the flavored varieties that most other theaters are now offering) in anything bigger than minuscule individual packets (you could tear open 20 of the silly things and still only get a half teaspoon total!) And where they must have turned their heating system Way Down - if not Off- so that other people in the show I noticed putting their coats on throughout the running of the show (I never took mine Off.) Worst of all (in my opinion) was when I mentioned to staff before the movie started - that they needed a bench closer to the theater for those people who arrive early and may have been working on their feet all day-- to which they gave a very lackluster and non responsive "we're sorry - yes - the only bench is down there" (pointing down the hallway quite a ways away.) I'll be avoiding that theater for any entertainment I am seeking for a Long time. To top it all off - two other patrons of the show were using their phones to text through the show! Galaxy Theater - here I come - THEY enForce their "no cell phone" policy! read more

Chairs don't recline, but they do have some great deals for summer going on. Its a good place to go to if you don't like packed theaters. Its practically a ghost town half the time...But the theater itself isnt too bad. Its as generic as a movie theater can get! read more

There customer service was ok, they didn't manage there long lines to well but overall not much to complain about. I would go back.

This place needs an update, took my wife to go see southpaw on Tuesday the 28 and the video stopped showing three times during the pre views you could only hear the audio! Then another two times during the actual movie! They did give us a refund for the movie. They did not want to give us a refund for the food cause it was already eaten! That's bull cause that's apart of the hole movie experience. I wouldn't of bought the food if we had not gone to brenden duhh! It's not my fault their equipment stopped working!! Don't waste you're time. Go to galaxy theater much cleaner and updated with very nice seating! read more

This theatre is so well run. Clean, and stocked restrooms every time I go. The GM there is always in the lobby checking things a chatting with his customers and staff. Its refreshing to know Modesto still has some businesses that are run well. Even the staff is dedicated to great customer service~ My reason specifically for this review is that I was there this past weekend to see Tarzan and I decided to try the premium nachos with bbq meat. It was a bit high on the price, but when I sat down to watch my movie and tried them, WOW! worth every penny!!! I would pay more for them! Now add a cold drink and it was perfect! Thank you Brenden Modesto, keep up the great work and fun atmosphere!! read more

Got our tickets just fine, but when we went to get snacks they somehow managed to screw up our card so that none of the payment attempts would go through. We were told that they weren't getting 'declined' messages from the machine but some other code which meant that the card couldn't be processed. When we had literally just used it to buy tickets not 5 minutes earlier. The manager came and tried to scan it on other machines but that error still kept popping up. She then very condescendingly told us to go to an atm to get cash when we told her we only had cards to pay, despite the fact that our movie had already started and we now stuck in the lobby dealing with this issue instead of being able to find seats. When my mom told her that it'd take 20 minutes at least to go to a Wells Fargo bank for cash, and that we'd miss even more of the movie by then, which the manager seemed to care nothing about, she simply shrugged and told my mom to use the one in the lobby where we'd have to pay a fee to get cash out. We were treated very rudely and got no apologies whatsoever. It's not our fault that they screwed up the card and that we didn't have cash, hardly anyone uses cash these days because debit cards and credit cards are much safer than carrying around loose bills. Definitely won't be going back for a while. read more

This theatre is a decent theatre to go to only for its customer service. Everyone here is very polite and helpful and even validate your parking. Howwever eveything else about the theater is horrible. The theatre is very dirty and the snacks are always old. The sound in the theatres is not very good and shows age as does the projectors which are not digital. Instead I suggest going to riverbanks galaxy theatre or mantecas kerasotes theatre which is probably the best theatre in the area. so If you can avoid this theatre but if you cant at least try to make the best of it because at least everyone is nice there right?? read more

Went to see "Mission Impossible" tonight. Got there early enough I was able to check out whole theater. Cashier was extremely nice as was entire staff. Place just seems dark and dingy. Was virtually empty so thought wouldn't have a problem watching my movie but oh no....Person got a phone call during beginning of movie. Other customer let them know (loudly) what he thought of them answering phone and offending customer let them know (loudly) what he could do with his opinion. Ducked lower in my seat fearing gunplay but luckily the movie had enough noise in it to get their attentions back on the show and not each other. Presentation was very good but man sound was so loud thought I was getting hit in the head with a sledge hammer. Seats were pretty comfortable BUT the place smelled of sour mops plus you have to walk past the garbage cans that are kept in an area by the exiting aisle. They smelled like they haven't been cleaned since movies were invented. Bathroom was ok but urinal decided to run and run and run after flush, water running everywhere. Luckily was able to find a person and he ran in right away. Good Man! Exited theater and then had to run the panhandlers gauntlet to get to my car. That capped the evening and made me decide that I won't be returning to the Brenden anytime soon. Didn't mention the concession stand. One look at their prices and I walked away. Really $5.50 for a drink?? $8.00 for a tub of popcorn? Who are they kidding? read more

worst theater experience! my date and I were there 10 mins early to get snacks and drinks and also use the restroom before it started..well the restroom I could do myself..but when we waited over 5 mins for finally 1 of the 5 employees running around that stopped to take our order...this was after the only person helping the 3 backed up lines of people I asked them if anyone else is here to get our order..total sh*t show...I blame management for not teaching these food servers what their job is.. they got my order wrong I just kept it..why be even more late to my movie..and we have to put butter on our own popcorn that was cold ..so the butter was just on the top...glad the movie was worth it..needless to say for those who want to come to this theater bring your own snacks and drinks..trust me! if it weren't the only theater playing our movie I would have done to the best one around...galaxy riverbank! read more