2019 · family · animation · comedy
The Addams Family
Directed by Conrad Vernon1h 27m2019
The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.
Our read: The Addams Family (2019) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · animation · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How The Addams Family feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want loud gothic-family slapstick that kids and adults can riff on together.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you need sharp writing; this cartoon plays safer than the classic Addams vibe.
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