The Addams Family (2019)

First, the positives. The cast of this movie is absolutely stellar. The voice acting is spot-on, and to be honest, it feels like it would have been a pretty darn impressive live action movie with pretty much the same actors! The character design is actually quite good, for the various members of the family itself at least. The humans...gee, at times normies look more weird and unsettling to me than the monsters.
I heard criticism about the pacing being a little slow, and I don't really agree: most stories with the Addams family are just a thinly veiled excuse to show more and more cooky, spooky etc. etc stuff creating a bunch of gags. In that sense the movie delivers, and I actually liked the fact that it worked as sort of an origin story making multiple references, one could say 'a lot of fanservice', to the original series.

What is bad about the movie then? Eh, as a feature film it's just not that compelling. The story has been done a zillion times and it has a lot of seemingly shoehorned elements such as social media who don't quite add any theme of interest despite the potential. It's a good product, very respectful of the original and with most jokes that deliver or that get away with being corny. Just can't help but think that with such a cast (and considered that a few jokes are morbid or even risque) it could have dared more and pursued a better screenplay instead of going with a formulaic "Be yourself" message.
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Sammo ★