The Addams Family (1991)

Since I was a child I followed the adventures of The Addams Family with great fondness whenever they show up on television. Later, when I got hold of the internet, several times I've looked at all 64 episodes of the original series. I can not say I'm a huge fan, but I really love The Addams Family and for me this movie is a disappointment. The Addams Family have always been original, in their weird way, and this film is not. The plot does not bring anything new. Color movie can not even come close to the atmosphere of the black and white series, and the hour and a half was not enough for me to overcome the original actors and get used to the new cast. Raul Julia is, I have to admit, the perfect Gomez who does not fall behind John Astin. Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman are quite ok as Wednesday and Pugsley, but the rest of the team I didn't accept well. Carolyn Jones from the original series was beautiful, elegant and irresistibly morbid Morticia. She was everything that Anjelica Huston is not. (Yes, you did not misunderstand me, Anjelica is ugly and antipathic and unsuitable for Morticia.) Christopher Lloyd is decent Fester, but he's not even close to Jackie Coogan, and the new Lurch is completely missed. New actor is not even a shadow of genius Ted Cassidy and Lurch's character is totally neglected in this film. And finally, The Addams Family is family-friendly horror comedy, and this film is just family-friendly, and not a bit spooky or funny. I can not say it's bad, but it was pretty boring for me. It may be good for you if you have not watched the series, but after a series this is totally lame.6/10

Well this film could've been better, then again could certainly have been worse.The whole point of the exercise here is to somehow make sure the plot holds up well enough for a full-length picture, all the while providing the adequate humor, enough laughs along the way that it's entertaining as the plot alone doesn't supply strong enough incentive.So it's all of the anti-clockwise mechanisms on all levels of a seemingly dysfunctional, but actually somehow functional loving family, that offers more warmth and love than the more casual, conventional household.It does well enough with the whole Uncle Fester shenanigans, which ultimately makes just about enough sense, as a moral.7/10

It seems like the film industry today is using the teenage goth subculture to make fast cash, producing bad films such as Hotel Transylvania (2012), Frankenweenie remake (2012) etc. but I still prefer movies like The Addams Family, where rather than trying to make a quick buck they think more about the quality of the movie. The acting is amazing, the movie is creepy yet comedic at the same time, the soundtrack is excellent and overall this is a very enjoyable film to watch.The Addams Family is a clan of bizarre, Gothic people, from circus freaks to punks to murderers to crazy people, and the film revolves around Gomez Addams and his strange family. They live in a mansion next to a toxic waste dump on a hill secluded from the conforming suburbs of the city. Gomez has his beloved wife Morticia, his trustworthy butler Lurch, his two children Wednesday and Pugsley, Granny (Morticia's mom), and their pet human hand, Thing. Although they are extremely creepy they are kind to everyone and avoid harming people for the most part, and are happy to live together in their home.When a long-lost relative, believed to be dead, shows up at the door, Gomez is thrilled. He'd been searching for his brother Fester, a fat bald man in a trench coat, for years, while everyone assume Fester was dead. What Gomez fails to realize is that Fester is actually Gordon, a man living with his loan shark mom and they've set up a scheme, along with the Addams' sleazy lawyer Tully, to take away everything from the Addams Family.I loved The Addams Family as a kid, and I still watch it every year. I highly recommend it, along with its 1993 sequel and the television show.

All though the Addams family are extremely weird you end up liking them. The performance is good and very believable and the effects are good for it's time especially with 'thing' the hand. The film takes you for a ride on a side of life I don't think many people have been on. It's funny how strange it all is and how you begin to like this family abit even when in some ways they come across so evil. In one scene Wednesday is trying to kill her brother in the electric chair, her mother disturbs this by accident and then let's it happen and they both find this amusing all though I know this shows how strange the family is I didn't think it was a necessary scene it almost made me dislike Wednesday for being so sinister. All thought I did enjoy the film I didn't understand the ending, was he Uncle Fester all along? I felt it wasn't explained enough.