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.”

We danced the Mamoushka while Nero fiddled.
We danced the Mamoushka at Waterloo.
We danced the Mamoushka for Jack the Ripper.
And now, Letterboxd, we danced this Mamoushka for you!

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

Anjelica Huston is perfect, and so well lit in this movie. And Christina Ricci shows that there was no one else who could possibly play Wednesday. Although it is campy at times, it all works so well.

Inspired bits aside (basically any scene that doesn't remind you of the haphazard ass plot; i.e. - any scene that doesn't feature Fester, his mother, Mr. Tully and his wife, etc.), The Addams Family is a drab affair, scoring few laughs and fewer cohesively Addams thrills (the most wickedly cruel bit has the filmmakers randomly inserting Thing doing a Fed Ex commercial). The warm and fuzzy appreciation for all things nighttime and macabre would be much more my speed in 1993's similarly themed Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. (I don't care if that comparison seems left-fieldish. In my mind, the films straddle the same fence.)

Cumpre a função: te divertir.