I have no idea what the general concensus is on this movie but I love it to death. Raul Julia (may he rest in peace) and Angelica Huston have amazing chemistry. Christopher Lloyd is an awesome Fester. The rest of the cast does very well. The jokes, while sometimes a bit too "on the nose", are effortlessly funny most of the time. It starts to lose it's charm a bit when it makes jokes about Wednesday electrocuting Pugsley or other such extremes but when it plays it right ("He coughs up blood?" "Well, not like he used to.") it's almost perfect. This is damn close to the top of my list of tv-to-movie adaptations.

Been a long time since I had seen this. Still a lot of fun.

always a fun little flick to put on just cuz :)

and who doesn't like to mamushka?!?

Watching this at the cinema all those years ago, who would have known that tragedy would strike just three years later, and take Raul Julia out of the world?

An amazing talent, it was this and the sequel "Values" that gave us the best interpretation of Gomez Addams to grace a large or small screen. Not that Julia stole all of the limelight as the patriarch of the dysfunctional family- far from it. Plaudits, and many of them, have to go to Christopher Lloyd (in a fat suit) as Fester, lost for years in the Bermuda triangle, and Angelica Huston as Morticia.

The show stealer? A young Christina Ricci as Wednesday, played with such magnificence you wish she was given more screen time. When she's there, you'll barely stop laughing, especially during a duel scene in a school play with more blood sprayed at the screen that all of the Friday 13th movies combined.

Been a long time since I had seen this. Still a lot of fun.

What incredible casting.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The Addams Family is a film that has followed me from my childhood and something I'm going to keep with me until I die. It's a film that has blatently influenced my taste in clothing (although I don't quite have the black hair just yet but I do embrace my paleness).

Full of corruption, confusion and humour it's a childrens, gothic, classic film that you should see at any age. With beautiful sets that still don't look dated today.

Plus, there's a free moving hand and a cousin that is just covered in hair- what more do you want from a film?

Creo que la he visto como diez veces xD

always a fun little flick to put on just cuz :)

and who doesn't like to mamushka?!?

An enjoyable, faithful rendering of the old TV show which I loved as a kid. They truly captured the depraved yet somehow totally lovable family members, just a superb cast all the way through. Great Line: “Don’t torture yourself Gomez, that’s my job.”

Excellent casting, good production design but too dark and not funny enough.