The Addams Family Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) brings his distinctly cartoonish sensibility to this feature film version of the old Charles Addams comic strip. Anjelica Huston was born to play Morticia Addams, matriarch of the ghoulish Addams clan, while the late Raul Julia is a very agreeable, lusty Gomez. But it’s Christina Ricci who arguably steals the show as their stone-faced daughter, Wednesday. As is often the problem with adaptations of comics or television s Read more…
March 1st, 2010 on 12:27 am
These are both enjoyable movies. The first one is my favorite of the two, but the second is still highly enjoyable and worth having on this disk. All the major roles are perfectly cast as far as I’m concerned. The special effects are fantastic for their time. I’ve always wondered how they did the effects for Thing. If the movie were more recent It’d be done as a CG character, but I’m pretty sure this was before they would have been able to do it that way.
March 1st, 2010 on 3:01 am
The movie Addam’s Family is a little darker than the orginal TV bunch. More sinister — less innocent in intent. Wonderful campy performances by the entire cast, especially Wednesday. The camp sequences in _Addams Family Values_ alone is worth the price of admission. Very witty screenplays — I pretty much laughed my way through both of these. Two thumbs up.