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I have been a big fan of the Addams Family since I saw the first movie, and looked forward to seeing this on the big screen.

The movie was OK. It was an entertaining hour and a half, but it does not inspire repeated viewing. It actually seems more appropriate as a movie pilot for a new children's show than it does for a movie.

The people who created this obviously had a lot of love for the property, and seemed to have fun with it, which translates well to the screen. But coupled with the thin plot and less than stellar design, there is a lot to be desired.

One bright spot was the first 10 minutes, which served as a sort of an origin story for the clan. I really wish that they had gone that route instead of the by the numbers route they chose for their final product.

After getting a couple of live action versions of "The Addams Family'' in the 90's (which I loved), we get an animated version. Gomez (voiced by Oscar Isaac) is still crazy in love with Morticia (voiced by Charlize Theron). Wednesday (voiced by Chloe Grace Moretz) is still a monotone harbinger of doom and Pugsley (voiced by Finn Wolfhard) is still the frequent object of Wednesday's experiments to get rid of him.

This movie could be considered The Addams Family origin story. It begins when Gomez and Morticia are just getting married and also being ran out of town by an angry mob. They find Lurch (voiced by Conrad Vernon) and also find an old asylum at the top of a spooky hill to be their new digs. For them it was perfect. Life was spooktacular for them for thirteen years until a "Flip or Flop" type TV show led by a woman named Margaux Needler (voiced by Allison Janney) decided to renovate the town below the Addamses. This new town of Assimilation was everything antithetical to the Addams: it was clean, colorful, cheery, and full of Stepford people. A town such as this would not have a good value while being under the shadow of the Addams Family's dark derelict lair.

While Margaux plotted to make the Addams conform, Wednesday was going through a rebellious stage and even put a barrett in her hair, and Pugsley was having a difficult time learning the Marsuka (an Addams Family sword dance that was a right of passage). The Addams were facing a crisis of sorts. "The Addams Family" was mildly amusing and fairly entertaining. I don't think there needed to be an animated version, but that's Hollywood now: animate what was once live action and make live action what was once animated.

Gomes and Morticia Addams move to a derelict mansion in New Jersey surrounded by a marsh and hidden by a fog in the top of a mountain to raise a family. Thirteen years later, Gomes is teaching his son Pugslay the saber tradition of the Addams family while Wednesday is questioning her mother about the world outside the mansion gate. Meanwhile a community is raised by Margaux Needler, who is the responsible for the sales of the house, and the marsh is drained. When she sees the old mansion on the neighborhood, she decides to get rid of the Addams Family.

"The Addams Family" is a funny and entertaining movie for the family. The plot is silly but works in an afternoon. The residents acting like puppets manipulated by fake news and the teenage rebellion are the best moments. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "A Família Addams" ("The Addams Family")

If your an adult looking to find deeper meaning in an animated move this isn't for you. If you want to watch your kids enjoying a movie while you eat popcorn and drink soda then take your kids and watch them have a good time. It's if you're 6 it's goofy, funny, and the perfect Halloween movie.

Something that really bothered me is the animation. I especially don't like the character design. The movie was kinda predictable and boring. But it was entertaining enough.

Sure, I grew up watching The Addams Family on both movies and cartoons, so the concept of this odd family was nothing new to me. But for an animated "The Addams Family" movie that came to see the light in late 2019, I must admit that I wasn't really overly sold on the idea.

But still, I sat down with the family to watch it, as my 9 year old son wanted to watch it.

Turns out that this animated movie was actually rather entertaining. The story was straight forward, if not actually simplistic in terms of what you'd expect for such a movie. But it worked out well enough, especially since this was more of a character driven animated movie, than it was a story driven one.

The CGI animation was really good. I was amazed with what the CGI team mustered to do here. There were so many details in all the scenes, even small things that have no impact on the story, but just add atmosphere to the entire movie. That was definitely something that pulled the movie in the right direction.

I loved the character design. And again, the CGI team really worked their magic with the characters, just as they did with the setting and atmosphere. But not only was the character designs good, I also enjoyed the art style quite a lot. It was very much in the essence of The Addams Family, and you might throw in some classic Tim Burton inspiration as well, because it was there.

Now, the characters would not work without proper voice acting, since this was an animated movie. And yes, they had opted for a great ensemble of casted performers to do the various roles and voices throughout the movie. This was also working well in favor of the movie.

This 2019 "The Addams Family" CGI animated movie is definitely well worth watching, regardless of if you are familiar with the family or not.

My rating of this movie is a solid six out of ten stars.

It's extremely predictable, the message is really generic and it's not that funny but The Addams Family is a good animated film that's fast paced and enjoyable with a clear love for it's source material. Chloë Grace Moretz, Charlize Theron, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll and Oscar Isaac are all really good. The animation is great and reasonably stylised. Both the music by Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna and the soundtrack are good.

It's always fun to go into a movie with zero expectations and and having said movie exceed them. I'd heard not great things about this and when I watched it myself I was actually pleasantly surprised that I'd laughed and had a decent time. With that said, this scores more towards average because while it's entertaining at times, it's not Addams Family, it's trying way to hard to beat a point home and it feels like it's derivative of a lot of other animated films like Despicable Me and Hotel Transylvania which is pretty much the opposite of the whole Addams Family thing. That and I fully agree with a lot of the sentiment out there, give me this cast, old school Time Burton and I'd love a live action movie.

This is a weird one, I think it's an entertaining watch but it's entirely vacuous nonsense. Pretty as it may be on the surface, there's no real substance here behind it's heavy handed comment on conformity and embracing your weirdness. I also don't know that this fits it's demographic because there is a lot of cartoon violence here. If all that is good with you and you want something light you can get a chuckle from and then immediately move on, this might fit that fill.

It's entertaining. I had a few laughs and it has a nice message. It is more for kids, unlike some illustrated movies, but it was ok. I don't really understand why so many negative reviews.

I guess you get about what you would expect from this movie. And, for a lot of moments, it's perfectly adequate (with a quick little laugh here or there) but, at the end of the day, it's still not much more than another contender in a line of bland remakes. You've got a plethora of incredible voice talents involved in this movie, but it still didn't manage to live up to the fantastically bizarre, shocking humour of Raul Julia's films in the 90s. Those films weren't specifically targeted at children as this one is; there was always something sophisticated and grown up about the Addams Family and Addams Family Values. It was something kids and adults could enjoy and this movie is really lacking in that. Despite a few jokes that are quite welcome, it really left me feeling lukewarm. It could've been a lot better, but it also could've been a lot worse.

I'm participating in the 31 Days of Horror movies tradition myself and am always sure to check out any horror film that comes to the cinema during the month. I enjoyed the original Addams Family films enough, though I've never watched the series. It was odd to me at first that an animated version of the franchise was being made but didn't feel deterred checking it out with a very good voice cast to boot. I know that many weren't crazy about the film and I'm kind of in the middle myself. Its a serviceable entry.

The film is about the classic cooky and spook Addams Family. Their house in New Jersey is in a town where a reality host is trying to grow her business in the territory and then eventually heads with the family as she tries to expose and get rid of these "monsters". The family also deal with regular family things, such as their children going through identity changes and interacting with the real world.

There were a few moments in the film that got a good chuckle out of me. I think the voice acting and animation were both perfectly fine. The problem was mainly with the script. Maybe going the route of having the family face off against the local TV personality wasn't the best course of action. Its obvious that this was going to be a way safer adaptation as it is animated and really meant for children as well but I felt like the writing of jokes and dialogue could have been sharper and wittier.

There isn't much at all to remember about this film. Its a decent time at the theater, although you may find more enjoyment if you are a fan of the series. For a casual fan like me, it does its job as an animated feature nothing more and nothing less. Its still a rather fun month of binging favorite horror films so it was different venturing to a more child friendly and animated horror themed movie.

6.5/10

Angry villagers attack Gomez and Morticia's wedding. The family escape to the new world where they settle in a dark mansion up on a hill. Margaux Needler is a disapproving neighbor who has her own show selling her perfectly planned community. Wednesday befriends Margaux's daughter Parker who tells her about junior high school. Wednesday decides to abandon home school for the public school.

This is obviously trying to tap into the Hotel Transylvania fandom as well as the nostalgia. This does remind me of Addams Family Values in one way. In both movies, Wednesday is the most interesting character. She has the most personal growth and her adventures are the most fish out of water. The movie goes overboard with Margaux. It would be nice to have more Parker with Wednesday. The family remains the funniest when they are forced to adapt to the regular world. There is not enough of that. When Wednesday starts dressing girly, Morticia could get more laughs by dressing the same to get in touch with her rebelling daughter. This is a functional start but it needs to go somewhere new if the franchise continues.

I gave this movie a six and that's a gift. I don't know why I gave this movie a six. I have trouble giving anything lower than that. So six is like a zero from me. So I basically gave this movie a zero. Maybe I should just give it a zero. Awp, too late.

I would have rated the movie itself higher, if the subtitles weren't out of sync with what was happening on screen. The subtitles were lazy - sometimes it wasn't the actual dialog, but the biggest problem is they were early - a scene between Morticia and Gomez suddenly had a subtitle from Wednesday - and there she was in the next scene. I've been watching shows with the subtitles on more frequently and they shouldn't be a afterthought. Sometimes the descriptions of sound effects or music are more fun than the sound itself. I wasn't looking for that here, just basic dialog captioning. To the creators, fix that please.

The movie was good, Wednesday is the funniest character. My rating 6/10.

Some people think the animation is weird looking, but I think it fits the setting and tone and even how the characters act.

The voice actors voicing The Addams Family were pretty good, I thought they did their personalities really well even in different settings than what they are used to.

It's pretty funny in scenes and when they are adapting to a new scenario, (Wendsday Addams is my favorite character) overall I enjoed it and was entertained.

The Addams Family is a CGI animated film based on the series of cartoons created by Charles Addams. Featuring the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Finn Wolfhard, it is a mildly entertaining update to the beloved kooky family but stumbles at being a coherent adaptation at the most crucial of times.

In New Jersey, the oddly ghoulish Addams family, consisting of patriarch Gomez (voiced by Oscar Isaac), his wife Morticia (voiced by Charlize Theron), daughter Wednesday (voiced by Chloe Grace Moretz), and son Pugsley (voiced by Finn Wolfhard) all make their home in an abandoned asylum on top of a hill far away from the rest of society. Blissfully unaware of the outside world, the family's idyllic, tight-knit existence is soon challenged by reality TV host Margaux Needler (voiced by Allison Janney), who plans to build a perfect happy community of "normal" people as a means to increase the ratings for her show. After the family refuses to conform to her standards, Margaux becomes determined to band her community together to run the Addams out of town once and for all, using the family's weird and frightening image as her main excuse.

Even though I appreciate what the filmmakers were trying to do for today's audiences, this modernised take on The Addams Family feels too watered down to leave the impact it should. The main issue here is the light-hearted tone, which detracts strongly from the source material's dark nature and satirical elements. I understand that this film is primarily aimed at young children and too much darkness may end up scaring them, but previous adaptations, both live action and animated, were able to strike the correct balance between horror and humour to appease all ages, yet this one does not. A more appropriate director at the helm, like Tim Burton, would have been a better choice for a film like this. In fact, as I am typing, I'm surprised this match made in heaven hasn't already happened by now.

Artwise, the film borrows heavily from the original Charles Addams cartoons, with the characters' proportions looking caricaturish and less human-like. Some viewers may be put off by this stylistic choice but I actually liked how the animators implemented it for the most part, as it shows respect to the material it has been adapted from. In addition to this, there is a nice use of juxtaposition of the bleak, drab appearance of each of the Addams family members with that of the brightly lit colours of the outside world, to further remind us of how much they stand out in a crowd.

All of the voice actors were perfectly cast, with each of them adding the right amount of macabre fun to their performances. Out of all of them, I found that Chloe Grace Moretz stood out the most as Wednesday Addams, playing the role in all her deadpan glory. This may be due to Wednesday always being my personal favourite member of the Addams family and that I find much to enjoy in seeing how she interacts with the outside world. I have always admired the way she (and the rest of her family for that matter) stayed true to herself, unlike the other supposedly "normal" people she comes into contact with. I still think Christina Ricci's portrayal of Wednesday in the early 90s live action films is the definitive version of the character but I am confident that Chloe Grace Moretz's interpretation will be enough to please today's generation of moviegoers.

Despite its obvious flaws, it's hard to truly hate this film due to some of the respectable care shown in bringing this gruesome family back to the big screen. There is certainly potential to iron out these problems in the upcoming sequel and return to the series' macabre roots. It happened with the live action films, with 1993's "Addams Family Values" proving to be stronger than its 1991 predecessor so it's reasonable to assume that the possibility will always be there.

I rate it 6/10

The Addams Family (in Brazil and Portugal, A Família Addams) is a 3D animated film, horror comedy and dark humor, based on the eponymous work created by Charles Addams. Directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, the film will feature the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Bette Midler, Elsie Fisher and Allison Janney. Debuted in the United States on October 11, 2019, and in Brazil and Portugal on the 31st, Halloween.

The life of the Addams family begins to unfold when they face a treacherous, greedy, arrogant, and cunning television host. At the same time, the Addams are preparing to welcome other members of their family to a big party.

For those who have seen The Addams Family you already know that many remakes movies and even animations expect nothing, but for those who have not seen The Addams Family is a good idea to take your children to watch this movie. So to my movie grade is 4 out of 10.