Product: The Addams Family [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
THEY'RE CREEPY AND THEY'RE SPOOKY..AND FUNNY
One of the few tv to movie adaptations that truly works. Director Barry Sonnefeld (Men in Black) takes the cult fave tv sitcom and turns it into a gloriously filmed dark comedy. Anjelica Huston is marvelous as the quietly seductive Morticia and Raul Julia is perfect as the enamored Gomez. Of course, Christina Ricci steals her scenes as the demonic Wednesday and Jimmy Workman makes a fine Pugsley. If Christopher Lloyd can't quite match Jackie Coogan's Fester, it's more the script's fault than his. Elizabeth Wilson is very good as Lloyd's devious mother as is Dana Ivey as the frustrated wife of nogoodnick Dan Hedaya. I wish they'd have found more use for Vic Mizzy's marvelous tv theme song, instead of MC Hammer's ridiculous rap contribution. But the sets are marvelous and the actors deliver their lines with the straight aplomb that made the tv series so unique.