
The Addams Family steps out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip the shark's son into the family as their long-lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?... (Full plot summary below)
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The Addams Family steps out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip the shark's son into the family as their long-lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?
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| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThey're creepy and they're predictable? Mysterious and rather tame? |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarTowards the end of the ride you are ready to get off... but if ride films are your thing, you'll be surprised at how much you enjoy this, even if you don't remember much about it afterwards. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovTruthfully, it's hard to imagine a better screen adaptation of this queer household. Addams would have been proud. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe story doesn't really matter. What matters is the laugh quotient, which is very high. |
| Washington PostJoe BrownA laugh-in-the-dark funhouse ride that provides nearly two hours of slightly sinister sight gags and Gothic giggles, is creepy, kooky, even altogether ooky enough to satisfy any Addams addict. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBasically plotless, this big-screen transfer of the cult TV series has some good vignettes and some good performances by Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci and others. |
| SlashfilmEthan AndertonThe movie keeps the spirit of the original series intact while making it a little more twisted for contemporary viewers. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAn extended collection of one-liners and not much more. |
| BBC.comAlmar HaflidasonAt times this can all become a little silly but Sonnenfeld manages to rein the film in before things get too ridiculous. |
| NewsweekCathleen McGuiganIt might have helped had the film included a few more representatives of the straight world. As it is, there’s almost nothing for the family to play off. We’re shut up in that mansion right along with them, and the kookiness grows fatally quaint. |