Silly, clever, and fun, this animated update has top-notch voice casting and lots of PG jokes as our ghoulish friends try to fit into a white-bread suburban community. Charlize Theron, Oscar Isaac, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, and Nick Kroll are just some of the actors channeling the 1950s Charles Addams cartoons, several TV serieses, and some 1990s movies.
Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, its script is by Matt Lieberman and the original soundtrack, by Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna, can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music. Many improvisations on the motif of the original series theme are to be heard on the soundtrack.
Theron was last blogged for Long Shot, Isaac for At Eternity's Gate, Moretz for Clouds of Sils Maria, Midler for Parental Guidance, Mychael Danna for On the Basis of Sex, his brother Jeff for Thin Ice (The Convincer). Tiernan has directed dozens of episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine and Vernon has co-directed a handful of other animated features, including one with Tiernan.
Though rated at only 43% by Rotten Tomatoes' critics, similar to The Laundromat which disappointed us the day before, audiences rated The Addams Family at 69, and it pleased us on October 17.
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