The Addams Family
Published January 19, 2014
Film info
- Title The Addams Family
- Director Barry Sonnenfeld
- Year 1991
- Run time 1hr 39m
- Genres Fantasy, Family, Comedy
- Tagline Weird is relative
Come join The Addams Family for the most hilarious scarefest of this season or any other! When long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez and Morticia plan a celebration to wake the dead. But Wednesday barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester's uncommonly 'normal' behavior. Could this Fester be a fake, part of an evil scheme to raid the Addams fortune?
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:34 | Interesting font these credits have, some of it not that legible. |
| 4:27 | It must take Thing quite a while to get around that massive house. |
| 10:12 | I really need to think about summer/winter wardrobes. |
| 12:08 | Thing seems to get around though. |
| 16:34 | You wouldn’t have thought the Adammses needed a lawyer. Although perhaps for the things they get up to. |
| 19:38 | I love having your own background music, judging the tempo in the room. |
| 22:11 | Her accent was almost as good as Franck’s. |
| 24:12 | I love how Morticia seems to float. |
| 29:56 | I think we need a slide down to our podcasting bunker. |
| 33:05 | That had the little music that occurs when Lara finds a secret. Treasure! |
| 36:09 | Christina Ricci is so good and so terrifying. |
| 40:54 | Pet vulture. |
| 49:00 | They don’t look very much like brothers. |
| 50:16 | That really is an excellent car. |
| 55:08 | I think I need to know more about the Bermuda Triangle. |
| 1:01:08 | COUSIN ITT! |
| 1:07:56 | “I swear by mummy and daddums.” |
| 1:15:29 | If you learn any lesson from this film, it is to be nice to judges. |
| 1:25:58 | Loving Thing, sometimes obvious CGI, sometimes just a hand through a table. Mostly very good though. |
| 1:31:39 | Pugsley as mini me is genius. |
Conclusions
I love this, particularly Wednesday. Anything that celebrates the weird is good by me. Watching it again after quite a long time made me see some of its flaws and that it wasn’t quite as good as I remembered it being. But I still love it, and it’s still very quotable to me.
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4 / 5