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I remember a serious discussion on Tumblr, about the Addams family graveyard: "What does it take to KILL an Addams? They try to kill each other all the time and survive anything." I think the best answer we settled on was "They only decide to die if the death would be more dramatic than surviving."
I always thought of it as a Family "Curse" in that they couldn't kill eachother and thus when Debbie Marries Fester she cannot Kill Him. Now some people will argue that Pubert kills Debbie and that this cannot then be the case... However we see Debbie's hand rise once again from the Grave at the end of the Movie (Even despite being turned to dust!)
Wow actually this could be an interesting theory- All Addams are more or less "toon style" immortal. You can beat them, poison them, or shock them. Nothing works. This explains both their lack of concern for violence and pain, in fact even masochistic pleasure for it, as well as their Old World aesthetics, because they are basically vampires without being blood drinkers. (Well, arguably.) Life as an invincible immortal being can get frightfully dull, and meaningless, so all the darkness and sadistic chaos that they enjoy is because they know none of it will harm them and after 100s of years of life, every Addams gets bored, and continues to seek more dangerous thrills and challenges and the spice of life. This also explains their open-mindedness and eclectic antique collections. They love the exotic and are welcome to anyone and everything because they have seen it all and have no fear, or discriminations left to bear. Why fear the spooky and the unfamiliar, or be a xenophobe, if you already have immortality and thus a fetish love for the universal undiscerning beauty of the Grave? ....BUT. Yknow how you can kill an Addams? By no longer being part of the Family curse. If you leave the family, that is SOMEHOW manage to piss them off enough to betray it, you become dead to them and thus you CAN be killed off for good, because now you are no longer "family." Or, you can die of maybe a broken heart, because now you no longer feel as though you belong to the family. This is why they Addams are so strong and why their number one principle is we look out for each other no matter what. The stronger their bond, the stronger the Curse!- or rather the Blessing- of eternal life and invincibility.
Where the animated movies went wrong was they added dysfunction to the family. The Addam's despite their macbre lives were the perfect family. Gomez and Morticia were terrific parents who nurtured and supported their children's endeavors. Pugsley and Wednesday, even with their wild streaks, minded their parents.
An excellent point! I've never seen any of the animated films, because I never felt there was a need. Now I'm glad I didn't. The Addams' are exactly perfect without manufactured drama, or at the very least it should be drama focused on all the external dysfunctional families who are judging them for being different.
huh. never realized that. They are indeed a perfectly functional family. The only thing capable of messing with their family being the antagonists, which are quickly shown as far more dysfuntional and are the ones to actually suffer as the Addams Family are just their macabre, yet wholesome selves from start to finish.
I actually thought the first of the recent films was good and quite enjoyed it. The second one however, screamed cash grab sequel to an unexpectedly successful animated film, for me so I didn't bother to go see it. I believe this was a good choice as it appears to have been garbage that barely resembles an Addams Family setting.
@@Shadowkey392 agreed, I really enjoyed them! I hate when people dismiss them without even watching one through, they literally say “I figured it would suck, and have decided that it sucks” without actually seeing what they’re criticizing.
The single most important thing to remember about the Adams Family, is that they are in all fact a healthy, happy, well-adjusted, and loving family. Seriously. They are comfortable in their own skins. They know who they are and what they love. And they don't CARE what others think of them. If anything, we should all aspire to live like the Adams Family.
It's not true that they don't care what others think of them. They just assume that other people are like them, and that they are a perfectly normal family.
@@ThreadBomb Exactly. I mean look at the 1960s episode where Morticia tries to join the Lady's League. She wants to be liked by the other women so they'll let her in, but she also has no understanding as to why they would be terrified of Thing or run off screaming when served tea by a gorilla.
I feel like the only one aware of how weird they are is Wednesday. Whilst the others seem blissfully unaware of how different they are throughout the movies, TV shows and cartoons Wednesday seems to take sick glee out of messing with the normals and shattering their worldview
Joel: Wednesday, do you think someday you might want to get married and have kids?" Wednesday: "No." Joel : " But what if you met just the right man, who worshiped and adored you, who'd do anything you say, who'd be your devoted slave? Then what would you do?" Wednesday "I'd pity him."
I think you bring up a really good point about the Adams family being optimistic in the face of the macabre. By them embracing fearful, scary subjects, and making us laugh at them, we also acknowledge them. And that can make them less scary and easier to process. Personally I find it kinda therapeutic 🙂 Also, I definitely want to check the '91 and '93 movies out now 😄
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That man single-handedly ruined all other Addams Family projects for me. He’s so GOOD. I love me some Tim Curry, but…there’s no following a performance like that.
Wednesday: "I don't want to be in the pageant." Gary: "Don't you want to help me realize my vision?" Wednesday: "Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character and the Aristotelian unities." Lol Wednesday is the best 😂
I guess thats the reason why she's the focus of Burtons take on the series, honestly I think thats a smart move to try for once jumping ahead in time when the kids are older, and if your gonna focus on one, its gonna be Wednesday.......not sure why only the Addams men got their own video games when Wednesday and Morticia are the most memorable part of this franchise (aside from Fester)
@@Gojiro7 The brother character never got the development or the reboot he needed to stand out like Wednesday did in the 9os movies until someone takes the time to make his character interesting Wednesday will lead the franchise.
These movies taught me a valuable lesson when I was young. When you plan to put an “exotic dancer” inside of a cake, make sure you finish baking the cake before you put the dancer in it.
"Is it a boy?" "Is it a girl?" "It's an Addams!" 😂😂😂😂😂 Loved the Addams Family movies growing up. I watched the first two, which were great, and the third one, of which I don't remember a thing.
These movies have a special place in my heart. Some of my favorite lines: Uncle Knicknack's wardrobe, Uncle Knicknack's things,....... Uncle Knicknack" "He has my father eyes" "Gomez, get those out of his mouth"
😊There are ample good ones. Nanny try outs. Nanny with puppets:"Remember kids! Only you can prevent forest fires!" Wednesday striking a match:"Prevent?"
The police station is one of the best scene's in any comedy ever. Raul Julia plays it like it's Citizen Kane, completely serious and commited to the drama Gomez is going through. And of course that's what makes the whole thing so hilarious.
Christopher Lloyd is the reason why Uncle Fester is my favorite character in The Addams Family. He just brought a certain insane bizarreness to his performance that I don't think anyone can match up to. And in my opinion, he was just made for the role. Also let's be honest, Gomez and Morticia are one of the greatest fictional couples ever.
I honestly just feel like the whole cast was perfect! It's insane how perfect they were! It is hard to say that about some other movies but dang, they nailed it with this one
You can say that again. I love that often in the show the normal upstanding family turned out to be horrible yet it was the " weirdos" who turned out to be the most loving and oddly normal.
Raul Julia was, and forever will be. The greatest actor whom ever acted.. When he commited to a character (Bison or Gomez) regardless of how silly that character was. Darn could he ever bring them to life... And his chemistry with Christopher Lloyd was phenomenal...
As a member of the Gay Bear Community (Not sure if there's an actual Straight Bear Community), It really did open the door for the rest of us, and I salute It
@@GayLatinoBear I salute you fellow hairy man. I'm not sure if we have our own Bear Community but from experience I do know women are attracted to chest hair again or at the very least not repulsed lol.
I haven't seen these movies, but when Morticia said, "Fester, cyanide..." I could've sworn she was going to continue with, "Who's the lucky girl?" I remember seeing the show a while back and I loved it. Sometimes even the original tv show had some delightfully dark jokes. A favorite example of mine is the fact that Wednesday has a headless doll named Marie Antoinette. That's just too brilliant! XD This is just me inserting my own ideas onto the show itself, but I always imagined that deep down Lurch is exasperated by the rest of the family's antics. I would always hear him groan his usual lines but whenever he was offscreen I would imagine him complaining and grumbling with the extensive vocabulary of an academic as he let out a small rant to echo his frustration and bemoaning his lot in life.
I kinda see Lurch like a teenager, "annoyed" and exasperated at times but still very much loves his family. Also, I think the original TV show did the best they could with what TV was at its time.
The cast was really the thing that held these movies together and helped make them timeless Raul Julia, Angelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd etc Just an all around legendary cast and arguibly the best iteration of the Addams family to date.
Minor critique: the older female family member is not the aunt, she was Grandmama. In the old TV series, she was Gomez's mother (not sure her connection on the movies. I always love in Addams Family Values when Carol Kane says, "What about Debbie?"
"Ah~ An axe. That takes me back. =D " there was a bit of headcanon I read somewhere that Grandmama hadn't actually been related and both Gomez and Morticia thought she was the other's mother and she had just kinda... joined the family at some point, which I did find quite endearing.
@@LilyZerep Plus in both movies Gomez's mom gets referenced. In the first movie, Gomez says the line, "But I didn't hate my mother, it was an accident." And in the 2nd movie both Gomez and Fester look at a magazine (or something) and both say, "Mom." So yeah I think Grandmama is Morticia's mother.
It’s funny how what was considered weird about the Addams family, is pretty much considered normal in today society. In the 60s TV show they showed that Gomez and Morticia have a sex life by having their beds together. Which was unheard of in television at the time. I remember a scene where Wednesday gets upset about something and both parents go up to comfort her. Usually in nuclear families in that era it’s mainly to Mom that does the consoling of a child
I love how openly accepting the Adams family is. They were going to keep Debbie, even as she was trying to kill them. They fully supported her. That scene where Morticia read to the "sick" baby was great--she was going to love that child even if it was "weird."
I just freakin’ love Wednesday’s reaction to the girl talking about babies being born in a cabbage patch. Just her with the deadest expression ever looking at her and bluntly saying “They had sex.” That just cracks me up.
Same Lol. Its the pacing of the scene, this little girl goes into stupid detail about the story her parents made up to avoid an awkward conversation. You know that they had that awkward conversation with Wednesday, and it was a heartwarming moment for them lmao
I guess the issue with the whole rap thing is that in the original movies it worked alongside the character - again, this mysteriously rich, gothic, almost old world nobility type of family, with rap music blasting through their 1900s luxury car's stereo is pretty hilarious, while Snoop Dogg voicing Cousin It, actively changing the character for the sake of the joke (which technically isn't even a joke) feels forced and rather old, ironically calling back to the early 1990s, when rap and hip-hop were entering the mainstream to the point everyone and their mother tried to do a "hip and cool" rap number in movies and commercials.
It also doesn’t help the fact that rap is just seen as a modern style of music since it’s in almost every form of media nowadays. Ironically making it more dated than the 90s films.
To be honest, I would have twisted the joke and picked an icon from the gothic scene for that voice work. Ville Valo, Daniel Lloyd Davey, maybe even Andreas Bergh or Marco Hietala. It would have been a nice nod for those who are truly inspired by Addams Family.
I loved the 1990s Addams Family movies. They’re much better than the 2019 and 2021 movies. Oh and I saw the Addams Family play back in 2014. It was really good and hilarious
I want to see a show where each ep is just them doing their thing everyday. And it ends with them adopting a kid who they think is normal but also troubled and feel bad for. But the kid is basically a mix of Patrick Bateman and Patrick hockestetter
@@astrowolvez oh yeah! They did had a Broadway play in 2010 and then they had a tour version in 2014. The tour version is different from the Broadway version. But I think the tour version funnier and much better.
One thing I love, which is probably in all adaptations (haven’t seen them all), is how much Gomez and Morticia are in love. And how affectionate they are. The honeymoon never ended for them.
Well, back when the old sitcom was on the air, they were voted by audiences as the most wholesome couple on television. There's an official video montage of the two by Metro Goldwyn Mayer breaking down how healthy their relationship is: ruclips.net/video/v_0nWZ4xXUk/видео.html
You think it's cause the stereotype is the two are happy for a short period of time then just can't stand eachother the rest of their lives, you think its just that but opposite for them?
These movies are just... perfect. Even today, watching them you can feel that sense of what you said, elements that dont make them wholly perfect. But that, in and of itself, is what makes them perfect. I watch them any chance I get, and I cant get enough of them.
There is such beauty in the bleak and despair. Shows and movies such as this allow you to come to grips with such darkness and help make it your friend.
Raul Julia poured his whole heart and soul in playing Gomez, and I really didn't want to to watch the newer ones at first because he wasn't there. May he forever rest in peace
You cannot see the phrase "The Addams Family" without hearing Da da da dum (snap snap) Da da da dum (snap snap) Da da da dum, Da da da dum, Da da da dum (snap snap)
My favourite thing about the Addams, especialy watching the serie, was how hilariously TOLERANT they were. Everyone around them was stunned and more than often INTOLERANT of how they were, while Gomes would simply think anything that makes you happy is good enough. Whenever they confronted someone they considered strange, they wouldn't care. Their happy-go-lucky mood was almost infectious, and the actors were the other half that made it work. I swear, Gomes's actor, John Astin, with some help from make up and good camera work, had that gleam on his eyes of someone who gets fascinated by the most uncanny things imaginable.
That's a prime example of why the 3D Addams family movie didn't do it for me. The Addams' nonchalant nature is missing and they are way too bothered when things don't go their way. Any other version of Gomez and Morticia would be thrilled to be chased by angry villagers, but you can see the concern on their faces when they are.
there is an episode of the orginal sitcom that illustrates this point perfectly. it's called the Addam's family meet a Beatnik. they are completely accepting of this strange man who ended up on their doorstep as they repair his bike (and hiding from his father). They think its his birthday and invite his father who comes with the intent of dragging his son back home. however after seeing how the Addams treat him and his son speaks his mind on how different the treatment between his father and the Addams was the father does come to the realization that he was indeed a bit to harsh and stifling on his son. It's a great scene and a great line deliverly from the father that I won't say here as it has to be heard to be fully appreciated
Even the movies do a good job with this with Margret. Who went from being a secondary villain as Tully's wife. to falling for and marrying Cousin Itt. Even in the sequel she still stands out wearing bright pink clothes amidst the black, yet she's so much happier as an Addams.
@@realjoemavro the addam's family can currently be streamed with an Amazon prime subscription, bought on amazon, randomly uploaded to the offical MGM youtube channel (or other sneaky folks), or i'm pretty sure they have dvds of the run.
Yesterday: Disney drops the teaser trailer to Hocus Pocus 2 Today: Doug drops an Addams Family review Everyone has collectively gotten together and declared it Halloween 🎃🖤🧡
I agree with Doug in that these movies are the best interpretations of the franchise, though I will admit I have a soft spot for the old black and white show (and to a lesser extent, the cartoon) because John Astin is such a fucking treasure.
John Astin is awesome. My first experience seeing him was actually in the 1990s show Eerie Indiana, where he played the proprietor of the town's quirky everything store, and he was still just as energetic and fun as he was in the 60s. You could tell he just loved throwing himself into these roles and giving it his all.
The original TV show is still a decent nostalgia watch, but was ground-breaking in its time. The Gomez/Morticia sexiness was unprecedented for a 60s sitcom, as was the defiant ghoulishness. Plus it looks great in classic black and white.
Both versions are great the 9os movies play smoother and better though because they feel more modern. Unless you have a love for classic tv you won't be as into the 60s series or unless you are open-minded to products of different time periods. Even the animated movies weren't terrible the 90s cartoon was also well-liked by fans and I remember it being very fun.
I love that Morticia and Gomez were made a happily married couple, since Charles Addams noticed that "Normal" couples in other works seemed to have dysfunctional relationships, and the Addams were anything BUT conventional!
@@chasehedges6775 They have genuinely one of the best marriages of any on screen family I can think of. The amount of adoration they have for one another is as adorable as possible.
I'm glad they made it obvious Morticia and Gomez were into consensual BDSM. It created a more healthy example to steer the Twilight, Fifty Shades, and Suicide Squad fans toward.
My all time favorite line from these movies is when Debbie meets Gomez for the first time and says, "Aren't you a lady killer." Only for Gomez to respond nonchalantly, "Acquitted."
This is one of my all time favorites. Raul Julia KILLS IT (no pun intended) as Gomez, and i absolutely love the mamushka As for the sequel, i can't recall how many times i laughed at Wednesday's Revenge
As much as I love Tim Curry, I really didn't like him as Gomez. Raul Julia's Gomez felt like a natural evolution of John Astin's Gomez from the 60's, while Tim Curry's Gomez was a complete departure from both, it just felt like a completely different character.
When the movie came out, the "New Yorker", I think it was, ran a review which included the observation that (paraphrasing): "Morticia and Gomez, whispering sweet nothings to each other in a cemetery, are the last happily married couple in America." (small correction: she's grandmamma, not the aunt ... though she is probably somebody's aunt....)
My intro to the family was actually the movies, maybe that’s why I’m like “why doesn’t anything else have oomph?” When I’m looking at the other Addams family properties. I’m excited to see what Netflix does with Wednesday
sadly because the rest wasnt allowed to have "oomph" like the movies, Sonnenfeld wasnt afraid to take risks and that's why they had the "oomph", the rest was TV only and toning it down to a more PG experience which was more like G today.
Ricci is a very close second for me (had a crush on her for many years) but my personal favorite is the 1992 cartoon Wednesday voiced by Debbi Derryberry. She's as powerful and badass as the Christina Ricci Wednesday, but also eloquent and charming, rather than angry or cynical, which fits the tone of the Addams Family a bit better in my opinion.
She was incredibly talented as a child actor. Something is clearly missing from most these days. It´s a shame she didn´t get a chance to be in plenty of more movies because she deserved it.
Never forget how amazing the child actors were. All of them. Christina Ricci was 10. She was 12 in Family Values. The scene were she exits the hut and breaks into the creepiest smile is priceless.
11:59 AKA the hilarious Harmony from Angel & Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She grew into a beautiful woman later. Sadly, Mcnab doesn’t act anymore, but at least she’s living a happy life with her family now.
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm Cousin Itt might be thinking about is "I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that."
I was so excited when I heard there would be an animated film of the Addams Family with character designs inspired by the original comics, only to be let down with the final product. There was so much potential, so much that could have been done with a full-length animated Addams Family, and they somehow made it boring and uninspired. HOW CAN YOU MAKE THE ADDAMS FAMILY BORING?
I always loved how loving Gomez and Mortitia (side note, my mom's name is Letitia lol) are. They actively encourage each other's interests, remain romantically interested even after many years together, and are devoted to each other and the family unit. As a kid of messy divorce in the 90s, I loved to see examples of healthy marriages, which seem to be actually quite rare in media, which favors drama and jokes.
As a a kid, I loved these movies. I even had a poster of two in my bedroom. My favourite line out of all the brilliant lines, is from two. When Debbie says to Gomez and Morticia, "what a lady killer" and Gomez responds with "acquitted" while smoking a cigar. It kills me every time
0:37 there were actually two Addams Family cartoon series (not counting the Scooby Doo crossover), one in 1973, one in 1992. Both were produced by Hanna-Barbera. Strange the second one has yet to be released on DVD (maybe someday, I hope)
There are 2 scenes in particular I feel most exemplifies The Addams Family's twistedly dark yet genuine and wholesome, showing that they're always simultaneously mean spirited and good spirited towards each other in the most extreme ways possible. The Mamushka dance from the first movie, and the Restaurant Tango in the second movie.
My first experience with the Addams Family were the '91 and '93 movies, and I loved them! Admittedly, there were occasional "meh" moments, but I still loved them regardless! Also, I just wanna say, Angelica Houston as Morticia Addams looked gorgeous
I think one of my favorite jokes comes from the first movie when the lawyer and the mom are thrown into the cemetery and fall into coffins and it just show the kids with shovels. "Are they dead?" "Does it matter?"
Tim Burton was always attached to The Adams Family movies with him being offered to this movie but did Batman Returns instead. But he was considered again in 2010 for Universal back when he wanted it stop motion animated. Now Burton is desperate for the Addams Family on Netflix. Although he didn't direct the 1991 movie, it was written by two writers who did two Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. So it's the best Tim Burton movie NOT directed by Tim Burton.
My favorite was "Addams Family Values" for Wednesday's whips at the brats of the camp! But I am pleasantly surprised by the new Animated movie in 2019 cuz I've always wondered how their neighborhood accepted them cuz any goth person can tell you that we don't fit in except among other goths
Yea but y'all are goths for attention and they are just who they are.ive known alot of goth girls and deep down they do it to be noticed,they hate themselves and think they aren't pretty (which in most cases isn't true)so it's the only way they got noticed.
@@ericseitzler81 some truth to that I think. For me I just love new textures, colors, piercings, angles etc. It's a shape thing. I'm tired of looking at myself as the helmet haired, dress, makeup, ballet flats person and I chose instead bald, boney, angular and with lots of chrome. Much of this happened when I lost my hair and needed a wheelchair. Meh. But yeah, shocking normies is a lot of fun 😏
I read in an article that when the actors agreed that Uncle Fester should be "real", Christina Ricci was the one to take their request to the director, because they were banking that she would be the hardest to say no to.
EASILY the scene where Gomez tries reporting Joan Cusack to the cop played by Nathan Lane and he has a breakdown and Lane's just scared and confused but weirdly mostly confused
Not gonna lie, I kinda wish a family like the Addams's, macabre but still wholesome in their own way, would just show up in my neighborhood. I would enter in clean and pristine, and walk out covered in soot with ragged clothes, but would want to keep coming over every day.
These movies were a must for Halloween parties as a teenager, for me Wednesday and Pugsley were my favorites because they actually worked off each other, especially in Addams Family Values.
The Sonnenfeld films are fantastic and I have grown to love Values more largely because of Joan Cusack as Debbie. I just thought the 2019 film was okay but it definitely was a lesser Addams Family Movie. 2 was just really lame.
The problem was already that the plot was going for the laziest kids movie idea in going on a vacation. Also didn't help that what little bits of dark comedy that the first film had were completely scrubbed out of the sequel, where it makes Hotel Transylvania look edgier at that point.
Loved this and very spot on, especially the breakdown between the nuances of the first film and the sequel. The only miss in my opinion is that the scoring of the first film was one of the most amazing I've heard in any film and I feel that some of the orchestration is interesting enough to be respected works in and of themselves. I think I've always strived to be different in the way that these characters were different. One of my friends pointed out the love that Gomez and Morticia have for one another is something rarely depicted in any film.
The score stood out especially when it did a hilariously brilliant fusion of swelling romance and horror-drama during Gomez and Morticia's love scene in the cemetery.
I love that Doug is reviewing more stuff that he loves because it turns out we all love it too. More please! Also, Gomez: [shouting] Has the planet gone mad? My brother, passion's hostage. I seek justice - denied! I shall not submit! I shall conquer! I shall rise! My name is Gomez Addams, and I have seen evil! [Grandmama waves Pubert in the air] Gomez: I have seen horror! [Lurch waves] Gomez: I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul! Morticia: They're at camp. Gomez: I have seen all this, officer. But until today, I had never seen... *you*!
The Addams Family was such a huge part of my childhood I love watching it with my mom she's deeply tied to them and I won't never forget her for that... love you mom.
Favorite scenes from The Addams Family movies?
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They really are a scream
*snap snap*
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"I'll be the victim." "All your life."
“They said she danced naked in the town square and enslaved the minister. But don’t worry. We told Wednesday, ‘College first!’l gets me every time 😂
It does get funnier as I think about it
Which movie did they say that?
@@maddalonefarms First one
Morticia is a great mom.
Saw a clip of that on RUclips and half the comments were basically:
"Life goals right there." XD
It just added to the joke lol
I remember a serious discussion on Tumblr, about the Addams family graveyard: "What does it take to KILL an Addams? They try to kill each other all the time and survive anything."
I think the best answer we settled on was "They only decide to die if the death would be more dramatic than surviving."
I always thought of it as a Family "Curse" in that they couldn't kill eachother and thus when Debbie Marries Fester she cannot Kill Him.
Now some people will argue that Pubert kills Debbie and that this cannot then be the case...
However we see Debbie's hand rise once again from the Grave at the end of the Movie (Even despite being turned to dust!)
Wow actually this could be an interesting theory- All Addams are more or less "toon style" immortal. You can beat them, poison them, or shock them. Nothing works. This explains both their lack of concern for violence and pain, in fact even masochistic pleasure for it, as well as their Old World aesthetics, because they are basically vampires without being blood drinkers. (Well, arguably.) Life as an invincible immortal being can get frightfully dull, and meaningless, so all the darkness and sadistic chaos that they enjoy is because they know none of it will harm them and after 100s of years of life, every Addams gets bored, and continues to seek more dangerous thrills and challenges and the spice of life. This also explains their open-mindedness and eclectic antique collections. They love the exotic and are welcome to anyone and everything because they have seen it all and have no fear, or discriminations left to bear. Why fear the spooky and the unfamiliar, or be a xenophobe, if you already have immortality and thus a fetish love for the universal undiscerning beauty of the Grave?
....BUT.
Yknow how you can kill an Addams? By no longer being part of the Family curse. If you leave the family, that is SOMEHOW manage to piss them off enough to betray it, you become dead to them and thus you CAN be killed off for good, because now you are no longer "family." Or, you can die of maybe a broken heart, because now you no longer feel as though you belong to the family. This is why they Addams are so strong and why their number one principle is we look out for each other no matter what. The stronger their bond, the stronger the Curse!- or rather the Blessing- of eternal life and invincibility.
@@HydraCollectables I always figured that was Thing, helping Wednesday complete her joke by scaring her “boyfriend” to death.
@@Backstabmacro I dunno. Where was Pugsley again during that party?
@@KeybladeMasterAndy I’d have to watch it again. It’s just been too long, but I think he was inside with Fester.
“He has my father’s eyes.”
“Gomez take those out of his mouth.”
Love that line!
Where the animated movies went wrong was they added dysfunction to the family. The Addam's despite their macbre lives were the perfect family. Gomez and Morticia were terrific parents who nurtured and supported their children's endeavors. Pugsley and Wednesday, even with their wild streaks, minded their parents.
An excellent point! I've never seen any of the animated films, because I never felt there was a need. Now I'm glad I didn't. The Addams' are exactly perfect without manufactured drama, or at the very least it should be drama focused on all the external dysfunctional families who are judging them for being different.
huh. never realized that. They are indeed a perfectly functional family. The only thing capable of messing with their family being the antagonists, which are quickly shown as far more dysfuntional and are the ones to actually suffer as the Addams Family are just their macabre, yet wholesome selves from start to finish.
@@SandraNLN honestly the animated movies are pretty decent.
I actually thought the first of the recent films was good and quite enjoyed it. The second one however, screamed cash grab sequel to an unexpectedly successful animated film, for me so I didn't bother to go see it. I believe this was a good choice as it appears to have been garbage that barely resembles an Addams Family setting.
@@Shadowkey392 agreed, I really enjoyed them! I hate when people dismiss them without even watching one through, they literally say “I figured it would suck, and have decided that it sucks” without actually seeing what they’re criticizing.
The single most important thing to remember about the Adams Family, is that they are in all fact a healthy, happy, well-adjusted, and loving family.
Seriously.
They are comfortable in their own skins. They know who they are and what they love. And they don't CARE what others think of them.
If anything, we should all aspire to live like the Adams Family.
It's not true that they don't care what others think of them. They just assume that other people are like them, and that they are a perfectly normal family.
They gladly feast on those who would subdue them.
@@ThreadBomb Exactly. I mean look at the 1960s episode where Morticia tries to join the Lady's League. She wants to be liked by the other women so they'll let her in, but she also has no understanding as to why they would be terrified of Thing or run off screaming when served tea by a gorilla.
I feel like the only one aware of how weird they are is Wednesday. Whilst the others seem blissfully unaware of how different they are throughout the movies, TV shows and cartoons Wednesday seems to take sick glee out of messing with the normals and shattering their worldview
Too bad the animated films couldn’t get this right.
Joel: Wednesday, do you think someday you might want to get married and have kids?"
Wednesday: "No."
Joel : " But what if you met just the right man, who worshiped and adored you, who'd do anything you say, who'd be your devoted slave? Then what would you do?"
Wednesday "I'd pity him."
moral of the story: dont be a simp
Or else you’ll end up getting grabbed by Debbie’s corpse whilst Wednesday laughs at your suffering
I guess the Netflix show didn’t get the message 😂.
@@Thederanged1They literally put her in the middle of a love triangle. Look how they butchered my girl
I love how Morticia's eyes are always illuminated. It adds so much to her character
I think you bring up a really good point about the Adams family being optimistic in the face of the macabre. By them embracing fearful, scary subjects, and making us laugh at them, we also acknowledge them. And that can make them less scary and easier to process. Personally I find it kinda therapeutic 🙂 Also, I definitely want to check the '91 and '93 movies out now 😄
I love seeing super talented, funny and creative RUclipsrs like you two supporting eachother. Go reward yourselves, all your resent videos have been absolutely fantastic.
Hi Josh
Howdy!
hey its PhantomStrider, cool to see you here, i watch your channel too :) and yeah good points here for sure
Oh, you definetly should
Both movies, despite being 3 decades old as of me writting this, are positively timeless
I'm just going to say Raul Julia will always be remembered for being both charming and hilarious in one.
OF COURSE!
For me, it was Tuesday.
I call it chilarious
There will never be a better Gomez Addams than Raul Julia.
That man single-handedly ruined all other Addams Family projects for me. He’s so GOOD. I love me some Tim Curry, but…there’s no following a performance like that.
Honestly, The Addams Family might be the only family that could bring Dracula on a Plane and nobody would be suspicious of it.
Didnt they do that in hotel transylvania?
I think the Munsters would like to have a word with you….
That would be the Munsters. Grandpa is a vampire.
@@lainiwakura1776 Grandpa was a parody of Dracula
Epstein
Wednesday: "I don't want to be in the pageant."
Gary: "Don't you want to help me realize my vision?"
Wednesday: "Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character and the Aristotelian unities."
Lol Wednesday is the best 😂
Something that could be said about a lot of movies and shows these days.
@@rdphoenix07 Indeed
I guess thats the reason why she's the focus of Burtons take on the series, honestly I think thats a smart move to try for once jumping ahead in time when the kids are older, and if your gonna focus on one, its gonna be Wednesday.......not sure why only the Addams men got their own video games when Wednesday and Morticia are the most memorable part of this franchise (aside from Fester)
@@Gojiro7 The brother character never got the development or the reboot he needed to stand out like Wednesday did in the 9os movies until someone takes the time to make his character interesting Wednesday will lead the franchise.
“He has my father’s eyes”
“Gomez take those out of his mouth”
COMEDY GOLD
I just got it…..after years of watching the film
The Jokes that the kids don't understand but the Adults do.. 😂👍🏿
These movies taught me a valuable lesson when I was young. When you plan to put an “exotic dancer” inside of a cake, make sure you finish baking the cake before you put the dancer in it.
Right? I won't make that mistake ever again
The one time you saw Gomez have a dour reaction.
@@otakon17 And then they all laughed.
@@chrisbg99 well they're STILL the Addams family after all!
"that poor girl"
"Is it a boy?"
"Is it a girl?"
"It's an Addams!"
😂😂😂😂😂
Loved the Addams Family movies growing up. I watched the first two, which were great, and the third one, of which I don't remember a thing.
Maaaalibu Barbie
i remember watching the cartoon, but i don't remember much and back then i didn't knew any english.
It could be an asexual, Eldritch horror but "It's an Addams" still applies. Pretty accepting family overall...
There's a joke that I always assumed was from the Addams Family, but as you'll see it doesn't quite fit:
"We have three children. One of each."
"It's an Addams!"
Babe, come quick, new gender just dropped!
These movies have a special place in my heart.
Some of my favorite lines:
Uncle Knicknack's wardrobe, Uncle Knicknack's things,....... Uncle Knicknack"
"He has my father eyes"
"Gomez, get those out of his mouth"
"Pass the salt."
"What do we say?"
"NOW!"
😊There are ample good ones.
Nanny try outs. Nanny with puppets:"Remember kids! Only you can prevent forest fires!"
Wednesday striking a match:"Prevent?"
Moira: "You are just too precious for words! Why I could just EAT YOU ALIVE!"
Morticia: "Oh no, Moira! Too young!"
My favorite line from the sequel: "An axe. Oh, that takes me back." I also loved the "I have seen horror!" monologue at the police station.
The latter cracks me up everytime
Has the Planet gone mad I seek justice denied?
"Who are you? WHAT are you?? Who moved the rock?!"
The police station is one of the best scene's in any comedy ever. Raul Julia plays it like it's Citizen Kane, completely serious and commited to the drama Gomez is going through. And of course that's what makes the whole thing so hilarious.
Christopher Lloyd is the reason why Uncle Fester is my favorite character in The Addams Family. He just brought a certain insane bizarreness to his performance that I don't think anyone can match up to. And in my opinion, he was just made for the role. Also let's be honest, Gomez and Morticia are one of the greatest fictional couples ever.
This comment made me happy!
their chemistry was almost real.
it was so good that I dont care about anything Adams Family after Values... the were MY Adams Family
I honestly just feel like the whole cast was perfect! It's insane how perfect they were! It is hard to say that about some other movies but dang, they nailed it with this one
@@theallstar3784 They cant recapture what they had in the 90s movies
As morbid as they appear, they're still far more functional than most families, these days
You can say that again. I love that often in the show the normal upstanding family turned out to be horrible yet it was the " weirdos" who turned out to be the most loving and oddly normal.
I hate how true this statement is.
Fiction is a hell of a thing.
Amen 😑
way more functional
Debbie: “Why he is such a lady killer.”
Gomez: “Acquitted.”
I'm glad someone appreciates this line as much as I do
Mr Buckman: "Our Amanda's skipped two grades. What about your boy?"
Gomez: "Probation!"
@@alicedelgado955
Amanda: “I’ll be the victim.”
Wednesday: “All your life.”
That line is how I learned the meaning of acquitted. Rather it got me asking my parents what that means at the time.
I always misheard it as "I quit it", like he was a professional lady killer but then met Morticia and gave that up to settle down 😆
Raul Julia was, and forever will be. The greatest actor whom ever acted.. When he commited to a character (Bison or Gomez) regardless of how silly that character was. Darn could he ever bring them to life... And his chemistry with Christopher Lloyd was phenomenal...
As a hairy man, I appreciate Cousin Itt being such a player. Gives the rest of us hope.
As a member of the Gay Bear Community (Not sure if there's an actual Straight Bear Community), It really did open the door for the rest of us, and I salute It
@@GayLatinoBear I salute you fellow hairy man. I'm not sure if we have our own Bear Community but from experience I do know women are attracted to chest hair again or at the very least not repulsed lol.
Hairy Lives Matter!
I once met Paige O'Hara (Belle) and told her, "I love the movie because it gives big, hairy men like me hope that we can find love."
I haven't seen these movies, but when Morticia said, "Fester, cyanide..." I could've sworn she was going to continue with, "Who's the lucky girl?" I remember seeing the show a while back and I loved it. Sometimes even the original tv show had some delightfully dark jokes. A favorite example of mine is the fact that Wednesday has a headless doll named Marie Antoinette. That's just too brilliant! XD
This is just me inserting my own ideas onto the show itself, but I always imagined that deep down Lurch is exasperated by the rest of the family's antics. I would always hear him groan his usual lines but whenever he was offscreen I would imagine him complaining and grumbling with the extensive vocabulary of an academic as he let out a small rant to echo his frustration and bemoaning his lot in life.
Dude, check them out. The two movies are solid gold dark comedies, and make great viewing every Halloween (at least in my house)
Maybe he vents in his diary/journal the same way as another butler. Mr. Belvedere. Forgive the spelling. I'm super tired.
Somehow, I was also thinking she was going to respond similarly. It must be the way she said “Fester.”
I kinda see Lurch like a teenager, "annoyed" and exasperated at times but still very much loves his family. Also, I think the original TV show did the best they could with what TV was at its time.
@@miciarokiri5182 True enough :)
The cast was really the thing that held these movies together and helped make them timeless
Raul Julia, Angelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd etc
Just an all around legendary cast and arguibly the best iteration of the Addams family to date.
"Why are you dressed like someone died??"
Wednesday: "wait......"
Gotta be the best line in the film
Minor critique: the older female family member is not the aunt, she was Grandmama. In the old TV series, she was Gomez's mother (not sure her connection on the movies. I always love in Addams Family Values when Carol Kane says, "What about Debbie?"
"Ah~ An axe. That takes me back. =D "
there was a bit of headcanon I read somewhere that Grandmama hadn't actually been related and both Gomez and Morticia thought she was the other's mother and she had just kinda... joined the family at some point, which I did find quite endearing.
I'm pretty sure in the movies Grandmama is Morticia's mother. Also I think that's how it is in the comics too.
@@TheSonOfTheDragon 😕 Yeah I always assumed the grandma was Morticia's mom.
@@ecurps1 I like that. They found her living in the attic and just assumed she must be a relative.
@@LilyZerep Plus in both movies Gomez's mom gets referenced. In the first movie, Gomez says the line, "But I didn't hate my mother, it was an accident." And in the 2nd movie both Gomez and Fester look at a magazine (or something) and both say, "Mom." So yeah I think Grandmama is Morticia's mother.
It’s funny how what was considered weird about the Addams family, is pretty much considered normal in today society. In the 60s TV show they showed that Gomez and Morticia have a sex life by having their beds together. Which was unheard of in television at the time. I remember a scene where Wednesday gets upset about something and both parents go up to comfort her. Usually in nuclear families in that era it’s mainly to Mom that does the consoling of a child
Interesting 💯
That was also true with 'I love Lucy'
I remember that! She was upset that a dragon was killed by a knight. Weird back then, but now way more relatable today.
@@NL-ws5fv "how could they kill a poor, defenseless dragon! D= " great bit. X3
If they had separate beds does that mean they had to do it standing up
I love how openly accepting the Adams family is. They were going to keep Debbie, even as she was trying to kill them. They fully supported her. That scene where Morticia read to the "sick" baby was great--she was going to love that child even if it was
"weird."
The lines
“ I’ll be the victim! “
“ All your life”
Are just too. Good.
All modern "feminists."
I just freakin’ love Wednesday’s reaction to the girl talking about babies being born in a cabbage patch. Just her with the deadest expression ever looking at her and bluntly saying “They had sex.” That just cracks me up.
Agreed 🤣🤣🤣
Well done on quoting the scene we just saw in the video.
Same Lol. Its the pacing of the scene, this little girl goes into stupid detail about the story her parents made up to avoid an awkward conversation.
You know that they had that awkward conversation with Wednesday, and it was a heartwarming moment for them lmao
I guess the issue with the whole rap thing is that in the original movies it worked alongside the character - again, this mysteriously rich, gothic, almost old world nobility type of family, with rap music blasting through their 1900s luxury car's stereo is pretty hilarious, while Snoop Dogg voicing Cousin It, actively changing the character for the sake of the joke (which technically isn't even a joke) feels forced and rather old, ironically calling back to the early 1990s, when rap and hip-hop were entering the mainstream to the point everyone and their mother tried to do a "hip and cool" rap number in movies and commercials.
It also doesn’t help the fact that rap is just seen as a modern style of music since it’s in almost every form of media nowadays. Ironically making it more dated than the 90s films.
To be fair Cousin Itt has been changed in media a lot. One of the cartoons had him be a secret agent for crying out loud
To be honest, I would have twisted the joke and picked an icon from the gothic scene for that voice work. Ville Valo, Daniel Lloyd Davey, maybe even Andreas Bergh or Marco Hietala. It would have been a nice nod for those who are truly inspired by Addams Family.
The thing I love about the Addams Family is that it shows, despite how strange and dark this family is, they're a loving and healthy family.
When Nostalgic Critic graced our internet, it was the greatest day of our lives but for Critic it was just a Wednesday..
Indeed
@@chasehedges6775
I think you mean, "Of COURSE!"
Precisely, even those who didn't grow up with original TV show knows the 90's movies. Bonus points to the fact that he always uploads on a Wednesday!
I get it! 😂 That was awesome!
This is a big brain comment right here. Bravo.
I loved the 1990s Addams Family movies. They’re much better than the 2019 and 2021 movies.
Oh and I saw the Addams Family play back in 2014. It was really good and hilarious
I've never seen the last two movies... but enjoyed the 1990s version!
There’s a play!?
I want to see a show where each ep is just them doing their thing everyday. And it ends with them adopting a kid who they think is normal but also troubled and feel bad for. But the kid is basically a mix of Patrick Bateman and Patrick hockestetter
@@astrowolvez oh yeah! They did had a Broadway play in 2010 and then they had a tour version in 2014. The tour version is different from the Broadway version. But I think the tour version funnier and much better.
One thing I love, which is probably in all adaptations (haven’t seen them all), is how much Gomez and Morticia are in love. And how affectionate they are. The honeymoon never ended for them.
Well, back when the old sitcom was on the air, they were voted by audiences as the most wholesome couple on television. There's an official video montage of the two by Metro Goldwyn Mayer breaking down how healthy their relationship is: ruclips.net/video/v_0nWZ4xXUk/видео.html
You think it's cause the stereotype is the two are happy for a short period of time then just can't stand eachother the rest of their lives, you think its just that but opposite for them?
These movies are just... perfect. Even today, watching them you can feel that sense of what you said, elements that dont make them wholly perfect. But that, in and of itself, is what makes them perfect. I watch them any chance I get, and I cant get enough of them.
The fact that this is one of the most healthy families in fiction and it involves torturing each other
Who was you expecting?? The Addam's Family.. - Raphael (TMNT 3)
There is such beauty in the bleak and despair. Shows and movies such as this allow you to come to grips with such darkness and help make it your friend.
Darkness: When you were young, you were frightened of me.
Now that you’re older, I come to tell you that I’m your friend.
First time I realized that was through the doors music
“Oh darkness, my old friend”
Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way says hi.
not a good thing to embrace darkness. . .there is so much to find in the light if you only look to see. . .
Raul Julia poured his whole heart and soul in playing Gomez, and I really didn't want to to watch the newer ones at first because he wasn't there. May he forever rest in peace
It really is a tragedy that we lost Raul Julia so soon. He was great in these movies!
You cannot see the phrase "The Addams Family" without hearing
Da da da dum (snap snap)
Da da da dum (snap snap)
Da da da dum, Da da da dum,
Da da da dum (snap snap)
Same!
My favourite thing about the Addams, especialy watching the serie, was how hilariously TOLERANT they were. Everyone around them was stunned and more than often INTOLERANT of how they were, while Gomes would simply think anything that makes you happy is good enough. Whenever they confronted someone they considered strange, they wouldn't care. Their happy-go-lucky mood was almost infectious, and the actors were the other half that made it work. I swear, Gomes's actor, John Astin, with some help from make up and good camera work, had that gleam on his eyes of someone who gets fascinated by the most uncanny things imaginable.
That's a prime example of why the 3D Addams family movie didn't do it for me. The Addams' nonchalant nature is missing and they are way too bothered when things don't go their way. Any other version of Gomez and Morticia would be thrilled to be chased by angry villagers, but you can see the concern on their faces when they are.
there is an episode of the orginal sitcom that illustrates this point perfectly. it's called the Addam's family meet a Beatnik.
they are completely accepting of this strange man who ended up on their doorstep as they repair his bike (and hiding from his father). They think its his birthday and invite his father who comes with the intent of dragging his son back home. however after seeing how the Addams treat him and his son speaks his mind on how different the treatment between his father and the Addams was the father does come to the realization that he was indeed a bit to harsh and stifling on his son. It's a great scene and a great line deliverly from the father that I won't say here as it has to be heard to be fully appreciated
Even the movies do a good job with this with Margret. Who went from being a secondary villain as Tully's wife. to falling for and marrying Cousin Itt. Even in the sequel she still stands out wearing bright pink clothes amidst the black, yet she's so much happier as an Addams.
@@geo7803 That sounds like a nice episode. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
@@realjoemavro the addam's family can currently be streamed with an Amazon prime subscription, bought on amazon, randomly uploaded to the offical MGM youtube channel (or other sneaky folks), or i'm pretty sure they have dvds of the run.
Yesterday: Disney drops the teaser trailer to Hocus Pocus 2
Today: Doug drops an Addams Family review
Everyone has collectively gotten together and declared it Halloween 🎃🖤🧡
It's not even July yet, lol
@@ThreadBomb Everyday is Halloween 🎃👻
Doug is still standing by Pig Power in the House all these years later.
I respect that.
It's a shame his dance to it had to be removed from the Gordy Review
I agree with Doug in that these movies are the best interpretations of the franchise, though I will admit I have a soft spot for the old black and white show (and to a lesser extent, the cartoon) because John Astin is such a fucking treasure.
John Astin is awesome. My first experience seeing him was actually in the 1990s show Eerie Indiana, where he played the proprietor of the town's quirky everything store, and he was still just as energetic and fun as he was in the 60s. You could tell he just loved throwing himself into these roles and giving it his all.
What's cool is Astin came back (though only for a couple of episodes) in the Addams Family reboot as Grandpapa Addams.
The original TV show is still a decent nostalgia watch, but was ground-breaking in its time. The Gomez/Morticia sexiness was unprecedented for a 60s sitcom, as was the defiant ghoulishness. Plus it looks great in classic black and white.
I personally far prefer the black and white show. I don't think Adams family looks good in color. It looses its charm.
Both versions are great the 9os movies play smoother and better though because they feel more modern. Unless you have a love for classic tv you won't be as into the 60s series or unless you are open-minded to products of different time periods. Even the animated movies weren't terrible the 90s cartoon was also well-liked by fans and I remember it being very fun.
I love that Morticia and Gomez were made a happily married couple, since Charles Addams noticed that "Normal" couples in other works seemed to have dysfunctional relationships, and the Addams were anything BUT conventional!
Same. They’re weird and creepy but they’re sooo charming and likable
@@chasehedges6775 They have genuinely one of the best marriages of any on screen family I can think of. The amount of adoration they have for one another is as adorable as possible.
Apparently Charles Addams went for Morticia types in real life. But he was married three times, so not so much about the family values.
I'm glad they made it obvious Morticia and Gomez were into consensual BDSM. It created a more healthy example to steer the Twilight, Fifty Shades, and Suicide Squad fans toward.
The first 2 movies are perfection. 💀💜
Gomez and Morticia will forever be relationship goals.
My all time favorite line from these movies is when Debbie meets Gomez for the first time and says, "Aren't you a lady killer." Only for Gomez to respond nonchalantly, "Acquitted."
I always heard 'I quit it' but they both work so well
This is one of my all time favorites. Raul Julia KILLS IT (no pun intended) as Gomez, and i absolutely love the mamushka
As for the sequel, i can't recall how many times i laughed at Wednesday's Revenge
💯😂
"My, you are quite the lady killer...."
"AQUITTED!"
Cracks me up every time!
Honestly this might be the only films i wish Tim Curry, Christopher Walken and Mel Gibson were in.
Tim Curry played Gomez in Addams' Family Reunion... I love Tim but there was no saving that movie!
@@KingOfMischiefs indeed, that movie was destined for the $5 clearance VHS basket in Walmart.
As much as I love Tim Curry, I really didn't like him as Gomez. Raul Julia's Gomez felt like a natural evolution of John Astin's Gomez from the 60's, while Tim Curry's Gomez was a complete departure from both, it just felt like a completely different character.
@@conduit64 Tim Curry might have been better suited to be a villain in one of the Sonnenfeld films.
I'd also accept Steve Buscemi
When the movie came out, the "New Yorker", I think it was, ran a review which included the observation that (paraphrasing): "Morticia and Gomez, whispering sweet nothings to each other in a cemetery, are the last happily married couple in America."
(small correction: she's grandmamma, not the aunt ... though she is probably somebody's aunt....)
So this is why the Addams Family don't have a pool anymore
My intro to the family was actually the movies, maybe that’s why I’m like “why doesn’t anything else have oomph?” When I’m looking at the other Addams family properties. I’m excited to see what Netflix does with Wednesday
I dunno, the synopsis didn't grab me
sadly because the rest wasnt allowed to have "oomph" like the movies, Sonnenfeld wasnt afraid to take risks and that's why they had the "oomph", the rest was TV only and toning it down to a more PG experience which was more like G today.
Christina Ricci will forever be the definitive Wednesday Addams.
Yep
Ricci is a very close second for me (had a crush on her for many years) but my personal favorite is the 1992 cartoon Wednesday voiced by Debbi Derryberry. She's as powerful and badass as the Christina Ricci Wednesday, but also eloquent and charming, rather than angry or cynical, which fits the tone of the Addams Family a bit better in my opinion.
And Lisa Loring
She was incredibly talented as a child actor. Something is clearly missing from most these days. It´s a shame she didn´t get a chance to be in plenty of more movies because she deserved it.
Agreed.
Never forget how amazing the child actors were. All of them. Christina Ricci was 10. She was 12 in Family Values. The scene were she exits the hut and breaks into the creepiest smile is priceless.
One of my favourite lines in the first movie is when they're at the counsellor - "I didn't hate my mother, it was an accident!"
Rip Raul Julia… I loved his performance as Gomez
I just realized Christopher Lloyd has this weird fascination for picking weirdos that everybody love.
he loved to ham it up, and that's why his fans love him.
Knew i never should of trusted that Lobster that was walking on the side of the road
My favorite line is the “she’s scaring me” when Wednesday is smiling. I crack up every time I here that line
I really enjoyed Raul Julia's performance in these movies.
He’s absolutely fantastic in these films
So this is what happens when Cookie Monster bangs on your door at 3 AM saying there's no more cookies left!
I love the ethereal light that's constantly lighting up Morticia's face.
11:59 AKA the hilarious Harmony from Angel & Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She grew into a beautiful woman later. Sadly, Mcnab doesn’t act anymore, but at least she’s living a happy life with her family now.
I knew i never should of eaten that Baby Back Rib on the TV Remote.
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm Cousin Itt might be thinking about is "I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that."
I was so excited when I heard there would be an animated film of the Addams Family with character designs inspired by the original comics, only to be let down with the final product. There was so much potential, so much that could have been done with a full-length animated Addams Family, and they somehow made it boring and uninspired. HOW CAN YOU MAKE THE ADDAMS FAMILY BORING?
I always loved how loving Gomez and Mortitia (side note, my mom's name is Letitia lol) are. They actively encourage each other's interests, remain romantically interested even after many years together, and are devoted to each other and the family unit. As a kid of messy divorce in the 90s, I loved to see examples of healthy marriages, which seem to be actually quite rare in media, which favors drama and jokes.
If only the Addams Family hadn't lost King Kong's phone number
As a a kid, I loved these movies. I even had a poster of two in my bedroom. My favourite line out of all the brilliant lines, is from two. When Debbie says to Gomez and Morticia, "what a lady killer" and Gomez responds with "acquitted" while smoking a cigar. It kills me every time
So this is what happens when you piss off Goth Kool-Aid Man when he's just trying to have a nice day on the Beach!
0:37 there were actually two Addams Family cartoon series (not counting the Scooby Doo crossover), one in 1973, one in 1992. Both were produced by Hanna-Barbera. Strange the second one has yet to be released on DVD (maybe someday, I hope)
There are 2 scenes in particular I feel most exemplifies The Addams Family's twistedly dark yet genuine and wholesome, showing that they're always simultaneously mean spirited and good spirited towards each other in the most extreme ways possible. The Mamushka dance from the first movie, and the Restaurant Tango in the second movie.
My first experience with the Addams Family were the '91 and '93 movies, and I loved them! Admittedly, there were occasional "meh" moments, but I still loved them regardless! Also, I just wanna say, Angelica Houston as Morticia Addams looked gorgeous
Absolutely.
Tv show for me. Now, whether it was the black-and-white 60s version or the cartoon version, I can't recall.
@@GipsyDangerfan i enjoyed the cartoon, but Morticia was too much like "The Scream".
I think one of my favorite jokes comes from the first movie when the lawyer and the mom are thrown into the cemetery and fall into coffins and it just show the kids with shovels.
"Are they dead?"
"Does it matter?"
Tim Burton was always attached to The Adams Family movies with him being offered to this movie but did Batman Returns instead. But he was considered again in 2010 for Universal back when he wanted it stop motion animated. Now Burton is desperate for the Addams Family on Netflix. Although he didn't direct the 1991 movie, it was written by two writers who did two Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. So it's the best Tim Burton movie NOT directed by Tim Burton.
What about the Nightmare Before Christmas?
@@leelongvideo I meant prior to 1991. Nightmare came a little after even if, yes, both writers did that film later on.
He is directing the new Wednesday series
I knew i should of never open that portal to Hell yesterday.
My favorite was "Addams Family Values" for Wednesday's whips at the brats of the camp! But I am pleasantly surprised by the new Animated movie in 2019 cuz I've always wondered how their neighborhood accepted them cuz any goth person can tell you that we don't fit in except among other goths
I’m not goth and I like goth people
Amanda, "I'll be the victim!"
Wednesday, "All your life."
@@spacedinosaur8733 followed by
"Help me I'm drowning!"
"I can't swim."
Yea but y'all are goths for attention and they are just who they are.ive known alot of goth girls and deep down they do it to be noticed,they hate themselves and think they aren't pretty (which in most cases isn't true)so it's the only way they got noticed.
@@ericseitzler81 some truth to that I think. For me I just love new textures, colors, piercings, angles etc. It's a shape thing. I'm tired of looking at myself as the helmet haired, dress, makeup, ballet flats person and I chose instead bald, boney, angular and with lots of chrome. Much of this happened when I lost my hair and needed a wheelchair. Meh. But yeah, shocking normies is a lot of fun 😏
I read in an article that when the actors agreed that Uncle Fester should be "real", Christina Ricci was the one to take their request to the director, because they were banking that she would be the hardest to say no to.
The Adams Family is one of those franchises aren't much talked about yet everyone knows and enjoys and almost noone dislikes.
EASILY the scene where Gomez tries reporting Joan Cusack to the cop played by Nathan Lane and he has a breakdown and Lane's just scared and confused but weirdly mostly confused
The temptress of Waikiki!!
These are an absolute STAPLE to watch during the Fall. Hell, it's great any time actually if you're into the dark, macabre, and gothic.
Absolutely are must watches around Halloween.
Not gonna lie, I kinda wish a family like the Addams's, macabre but still wholesome in their own way, would just show up in my neighborhood. I would enter in clean and pristine, and walk out covered in soot with ragged clothes, but would want to keep coming over every day.
These movies were a must for Halloween parties as a teenager, for me Wednesday and Pugsley were my favorites because they actually worked off each other, especially in Addams Family Values.
The Sonnenfeld films are fantastic and I have grown to love Values more largely because of Joan Cusack as Debbie.
I just thought the 2019 film was okay but it definitely was a lesser Addams Family Movie. 2 was just really lame.
The problem was already that the plot was going for the laziest kids movie idea in going on a vacation. Also didn't help that what little bits of dark comedy that the first film had were completely scrubbed out of the sequel, where it makes Hotel Transylvania look edgier at that point.
Loved this and very spot on, especially the breakdown between the nuances of the first film and the sequel. The only miss in my opinion is that the scoring of the first film was one of the most amazing I've heard in any film and I feel that some of the orchestration is interesting enough to be respected works in and of themselves. I think I've always strived to be different in the way that these characters were different. One of my friends pointed out the love that Gomez and Morticia have for one another is something rarely depicted in any film.
The score stood out especially when it did a hilariously brilliant fusion of swelling romance and horror-drama during Gomez and Morticia's love scene in the cemetery.
I've always found Gomez and Morticia Adams to be relationship goals.
These are my two favorite movies to watch on Halloween. The atmosphere is unmatched.
They’re perfect Halloween films
Check out The Adam’s Family musical, it matches the dreary tone of the source material with the addition of original songs that absolutely slap
Nathan Lane was Gomez in the original cast!
I’m glad someone else mentioned the musical.
I actually was introduced to Addams Family through the Saturday morning cartoon. I liked it and it introduced me to the movies and the original show.
I love that Doug is reviewing more stuff that he loves because it turns out we all love it too. More please!
Also,
Gomez: [shouting] Has the planet gone mad? My brother, passion's hostage. I seek justice - denied! I shall not submit! I shall conquer! I shall rise! My name is Gomez Addams, and I have seen evil!
[Grandmama waves Pubert in the air]
Gomez: I have seen horror!
[Lurch waves]
Gomez: I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul!
Morticia: They're at camp.
Gomez: I have seen all this, officer. But until today, I had never seen... *you*!
So this is why Tyler Durden went crazy of course it all makes sense now
What's actually funny is I just watching AVGN's review of Fester's Quest earlier today
There's never been a family that I wished really existed more. I love the Addams Family.
indeed, i think we all want to be a part of that family because of how loving and accepting they are.
@@UltimateGamerCC something like that. Lol
"They just don't look like my thing."
I loved that line and that delivery.
I think if you say Beetlejuice backwards 3 times you get the Addams Family instead
I rewatched this last year and was really amazed how sweet the movie is watching it again
The original and the 90's Addams Family are my favorite. 🖤
The Addams Family was such a huge part of my childhood I love watching it with my mom she's deeply tied to them and I won't never forget her for that... love you mom.
I see the Addams Family never grew out of their Emo phase of their lives.