Sunday, 21 June 2020

VOD: The Addams Family (dirs: Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, 2019)

"Is he all right?"
No - he seems perfectly demented!"

The latest incarnation of this much-loved property goes the CG-animation route, and it proves to be quite faithful to the original comics, the 60s TV show and the more recent Hollywood movie versions.  The stylised visuals work well on screen, and there are plenty of effective visual and verbal gags that fly and are fully appropriate to the franchise, with a purposeful reality TV element that sits usefully within the narrative.  This 2019 entry into the franchise is well-made, effectively presented and pleasantly entertaining but but hardly essential.

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