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The Addams Family

2019

Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan

Animation, Voice: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz ...

5.2

3,769

Animation. Comedy Gomez and Morticia Addams move to a derelict asylum in New Jersey, surrounded by a marsh and hidden by a fog at the top of a mountain, to raise a family. Thirteen years later, teaching his son Pugsley the saber tradition of the Addams family while Wednesday is about the world outside the mansion , TV reality host Margaux Needler is busy designing and building the planned community of Ass when the marsh is drained and the Addams home is ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s so busy treating its famous domesticated ghouls as icons that it forgets to rediscover what’s memorable about them."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A movie so bland and forgettable it hardly merits a groan from the Frankenstein-like butler"
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"If this installment lays on the moral (all families are freaky in their own ways) a bit thick, it has just enough wit and weirdness to honor its source material."
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"The new CGI-animated 'Addams Family' takes dark, subversive and sardonic source material and softens it into a wimpy story of acceptance (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A breezy and intermittently funny but not particularly original story (...) we’ll soon forget our visit with this version (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle	"What's surprising is how low-energy this version is."
		Katie Rife AV Club	"Anyone who’s still engaged by the end of the movie is probably too young to remember the original."
		Yolanda Machado The Wrap	"An enjoyable, light-hearted Halloween treat (...) While the script by Todd Lieberman (“Sausage Party”) is a little too cookie-cutter and a bit simplistic, it works really well for kids"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"The appeal of this 'Addams Family,' which doesn’t break the mold, is simply to spend some more time in this gently spooky world"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"When a bottomless pit offers more visual interest than a family member whose defining characteristic is a large screw through his cranium, something has gone amiss."
		Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"There are about half a dozen bright spots in the new animated feature 'The Addams Family,' but in between them is the unbright and unoriginal storyline (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"An undistinguished children’s comedy full of dull pop-culture referencing and half-hearted commentary about the importance of inclusiveness."
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"[It] may not reach the ghoulish heights of its predecessors, but the key ingredients are still thankfully there (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Cath Clarke The Guardian	"[It] is not creepy and not kooky – it’s bland (...) Like taking a treasured pet to a taxidermist with disappointing results (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"This well-behaved reboot is no fun at all (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"One of the best animated movies of 2019, 'The Addams Family' isn't perfect but it'll have you and your family laughing throughout (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Tara Brady Irish Times	"They’re ugly and they’re boring; They’re gonna leave you snoring; They’re totally worth ignoring; The Addams Family (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Wasser Irish Independent	"Call it ugly, dull or even just plain rubbish. Each of these descriptions fits the bill (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Harry Guerin RTÉ	"There are only flashes of magic (...) and a story that's too stop-start to satisfy (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"

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