Product: The Addams Family [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 5.0
Tim Burton did an excellent job with this one
Tim burton's vision of the characters from the old-monied, aristocratic family was superb and hit it right on the spot. Not continuing the original metaphors these characters played would be a dissapointment. The most recent TV series flopped because they failed to capture the character of the family. In the most recent TV series, Gomez was made into a bungling idiot and so was everyone else, but Tim Burton's version made Gomez the a man of the world, a careless aristocrat and a charming debonaire, sort of a dark version of Red Butler from Gone with the Wind, Morticia, the mysterious seductress, a classier version of Elvira. Wendy was the silent misunderstood psycho, and pugsley, the simplistic sadist who always gets outwitted by his deep and sinister sister. Lurch plays the ever faithful and dutiful butler and the architecture and the richness of the Victorian house they lived in was a character in the movie in itself. My suggestion is to buy the movie not just for its entertainment value but also for the amount of depth and vision the director put into creating this masterpiece. A good comparison would be the superman movie. Christopher Reeve played the best superman and after him, no one could live up to it anymore. Just like the Addams family, remaking it with different character personalities would be a complete and utter failure.