"They do what they wanna do, say what they wanna say, live how they wanna live, play how they wanna play, dance how they wanna dance..." Sorry. I was having an MC Hammer moment. Oh, The Addams Family! The cartoons were great, the TV show was great, and I'm happy to say that this movie was great (in that gleefully wicked and oh-so-90s kind of way)!
Gomez (Raul Julia), Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and the rest of the Addams clan are having a seance in hopes of reaching out to Gomez's long lost brother Fester (Christopher Lloyd). When he appears on their doorstep, the family is overjoyed...and suspicious. Is he the real Fester Addams? Or just a convincing scam artist?
This film is a hell of a lot of fun. The Addamses are so consistent in their creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky outlook on life. I especially love the scenes where they interact with "normal" people. Morticia looking for a job? Parent-teacher conferences? Wednesday and Pugsley in the school pageant (complete with TONS of fake blood)? Hilarious! When a Girl Scout comes by selling cookies, Wednesday (Christina Ricci) asks her flatly, "Are they made from real Girl Scouts?" She has some of the best lines in the film. Combine great writing with a beautiful waltz theme by Marc Shaiman, and an all around sense of fun and mayhem, and you've got yourself a good time.
Enjoy, and dance the dance of brotherly looooove, Mamushka!
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