This adaptation completely disregards (or forgets??) who the Addams' are, and the charm is gone.

The Addams Family are - as the song goes - mysterious and spooky. They delight in the macabre, BUT are unaware that other people find them bizarre or frightening. THAT'S THE COMEDY OF THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE.

This adaptation slaps the franchise in the face and gives us a fluffy, cheery and unrecognizable versions of the characters we've loved for years.

This family is desperate to fit in with the rest of society. They're aware of their own gags. Lurch plays pop music. Grand-mama (called Grandma in this version) even says she loves her Grandkids and has the hots for Fabio. Pugsley is just an annoying kid like any other. I don't know who these characters are, but they are not The Addams Family.

The story is flat and the villain-turned-voyeur is just bizarre.

The illustration style is taken from the original 1930's comic strips - which is a great touch - but nothing else, and I mean NOTHING else works here.

The Addams Family is... pretty bad. The year's worst animated movie ? Certainly. And... Hum... All things considered, I still had a good time watching The Addams Family! It is a little weird with its' story structure (imagine an entire story arc of a new tv show squeezed into one movie, though it's not as bad as other examples)... You understand, I am very mixed. Not awful, but it isn't clever or gloomy...

The actors voices added nothing to this film, simply because their is nothing to this film. My screening, which was full of children, was completely silent. My nieces were bored, I showed them the 90s films the night before, which they laughed the whole way through. Cheap version of a classic