The Addams Family: Critic Reviews

They're creepy and they're predictable? Mysterious and rather tame?

The film's aimlessness and repetitiveness eventually become draining.

An otherwise very funny scene featuring Thing amounts to an extended ad for Federal Express, and the rap beats from Hammer's new album boom from passing cars in several scenes -- nothing will date this movie faster.

More than merely a sequel of the TV series, the film is a compendium of paterfamilias Charles Addams's macabre drawings, a resurrection of the cartoonist's body of work. For family friends, it would seem a viewing is de rigueur mortis.

There are a lot of little smiles in The Addams Family, and many chuckles and grins, but they don't add up to much.

An extended collection of one-liners and not much more.

Despite inspired casting and nifty visual trappings, the eagerly awaited Addams Family figures as a major disappointment.

Dark comedy with macabre humor for teens.

Deliciously sick and delightfully cast.

A twisted treat.

Ooky the Addamses may be, subversive they ain't; it plays like a paean to the nuclear family.

Cinematographer-turned-director Barry Sonnenfeld and screenwriters Larry Wilson and Caroline Thompson haven't solved the problem of how to construct a film around a one-joke concept.

Funny feature film version of the classic TV show, and just as ghoulishly hilarious.

The plot is a threadbare thing indeed.

Ooky the Addamses may be, subversive they ain't; it plays like a paean to the nuclear family.

Basically plotless, this big-screen transfer of the cult TV series has some good vignettes and some good performances by Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci and others.

creepy and funny

Great translation of the classic television series.