The Addams Family (2019)
Directors: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon. (PG)
Animation
star rating: 3/5 worth watching
Synopsis
During their wedding, the decidedly spooky Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia (Charlize Theron) Adams and their equally odd family and friends are chased from their home by their neighbours.
Travelling to New Jersey, they settle down in a condemned former asylum perched on a hill and they start a family: daughter Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz) and son Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard).
One day the mist around their moldering mansion suddenly clears and below them they see a new, pristine and ordered town created by manic designer and TV star Margaux Needler (Allison Janney).
Margaux spies the rickety, gloomy house on the hill as a threat to the neat and pretty world order she has made and sets about doing anything in her gift to makeover the Addams’.
Review by @Reelreviewer
This reboot of the creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and all together ooky familial unit. Based on the classic cartoons by Charles Addams, it rather appropriately takes his morbid creations back to their original animated form.
It's an approach that largely works as film lacks the lavish lick that director Barry Sonnenfeld gave to his Raul Julia/Angelica Huston blockbusters from the 1990's.
This new film is smart, consistently amusing, beautifully animated, has a stunning starry cast providing the voices and had me giggling throughout. I saw the movie with a friend and she brought along her four (and a bit) year old son - always a good barometer of an animated films quality.
He loved it...and you will too.
For more, read the full review: bit.ly/Addams2019
Cast & credits
Directors: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon. 1hr 26mins/86mins. MGM/Cinesite Animation/BRON Studios/BermanBraun/Bron Creative/Creative Wealth Media Finance/Nitrogen Studios Canada. (PG)
Producers: Gail Berman, Alison O’Brien, Alex Schwartz, Conrad Vernon.
Writers: Matt Lieberman, Pamela Pettler.
Music: Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna.
Sets: Kyle McQueen.
Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara.
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