A revival of the popular '60s TV comedy series "The Addams Family" has them preparing for Halloween in their own inimitable way.A revival of the popular '60s TV comedy series "The Addams Family" has them preparing for Halloween in their own inimitable way.A revival of the popular '60s TV comedy series "The Addams Family" has them preparing for Halloween in their own inimitable way.
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- TriviaThe shot during the opening credits in which the Addams Family members are sitting down in a line with each doing the hair of the one before is a remake of a similar group shot in the first-season episode Thing Is Missing (1965).
- GoofsWhen Mikey bumps into the tombstone, it wobbles.
- Quotes
First Cop: Sorry, folks, but there's been complaints about the noise.
Morticia Addams: But this is a holiday, and a very special holiday for the Addams family. Everyone here is a relative.
Uncle Fester: [brings in the crooks] I'm sorry, you're mistaken, Morticia, these two aren't.
First Cop: Well... Bones Lafferty and Louie the Lard?
Gomez Addams: Oh, you must be mistaken, Officer; these are members of our family.
[Fester shakes his head]
Boss Crook: No, no, no. No, we, we, we, we just said that... we're not members. Oh, but the lion, a lion! In, in the basement, and a lady flew right out the window!
Little Bo Peep: That was no lady, it was a pterodactyl.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elvira's Halloween Movie Schlock-A-Thon (1993)
And... it wasn't that good. The characters were the same and I love John Astin's Gomez but the rest of it felt a little flat. You could see that it was done cheap meaning it was shot on video and the special effects were no better than they were back in the 60's. The set lighting made it seem too bright and why didn't they make Lurch green? He always struck me as being green during the black and white days.
The story is, pretty basic. It's Halloween and the entire Addams clan is getting together. Wednesday and Pugsley have moved out. She's studying the picolo and he's training to be a witch doctor in Nairobi. Just go with it, it was the 70's. But Morticia and Gomez have had two more children that look suspiciously like their older siblings. They're Wednesday Jr and Pugsley Jr. Rounding out the cast are the rest of the Addams clan as well as the newcomer Pancho, Gomez's brother.
There's a bunch of thieves that are trying to rip them off, doubles of Morticia and Gomez resulting in a lot of mistaken identity and a bit of unrequited love.
Overall it's not that bad as there are parts of it that work but in the end it feels rather empty and is best left as a curio of failed revivals.
- Java_Joe
- Aug 23, 2019
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