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Raul Julia was SO perfect as Gomez that he made Tim Curry look inferior by comparison. Raul may be the only man to ever do that, and I love Tim Curry.

Fun fact: Jerry Messing (who played Pugsley in the film) grew up to be the “M’Lady” fedora tip meme.

I sometimes forget raul julia is dead, then I get sad when people remind me

Tim Curry is amazing in his own right but I really can't see anyone but Raul Julia as Gomez.

“He’s having so much fun in the role.” That seems to be true for all the actors who played Gomez.

The original cast for the first 2 movies was one of those times where they're were picked perfectly

Raul Julia + Anjelica Huston = one of the best screen couplings of _all time._ not in a kid's movie, not in a comedy movie - in _any_ movie. go ahead! do much better! you won't find many. i guarantee you won't find many more pairings more *instantly* likable, *absurdly* charismatic and genuinely, hilariously _moving_ in their flaming devotion to each other. they are a _joy_ to watch together. anytime they see each other, magic happens in those two movies. like i said, one of the best screen pairings of any movie, ever.

Raul Julia was the ultimate Gomez Addams. Angelica Huston was the ultimate Morticia, and Christopher Lloyd was the ultimate Fester. They were imposible to replace.

The kid playing Pugsley in this gained internet fame as the "tips fedora" meme.

The Wednesday isn’t that bad. She’s just not Christina Ricci. I know Lisa Loring is the tv version. But Christina IS the perfect Wednesday And Raul Julia was so brilliant

The Uncle Fester in this movie really just seems to someone doing an impersonation of the Jackie Coogan Fester from the TV show.

In the 1991 version, the person who played Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) became a car salesman. I bought a BMW through him in So. Cal. His sister is Ariel Winter from Modern Family.

I think the 2019 animated one could be seen as a "forgotten failure" too. literally, despite coming out last year, making 3 times its budget, having an all star cast, and a sequel on the works for 2022, i have seen little to none word about it after its threathical run ended (and the ones i have seen, arent positive about it).

Both original movies were the definition of the Addams Family. Not a nuclear family, but a family that normal people, labeled as the outcasts just for explaining their feelings through wardrobe, sharing their thoughts, and knowing they have a dark side, could feel at home. It's a place where the unusual is common practice, creative destruction is encouraged, the shy are respected, and the eccentric are welcome. They're the Addams.

Fun fact: the kid that played Pugsley Addams grew up to be the "M'lady" neckbeard guy meme.

I love Tim Curry, but his British upper class accent is just wrong for Gomez. Even an American accent would’ve worked better.

You got to cover The Munsters' attempt at a movie around this time too!

waitwaitwait. Lurch saving the woman in the pool and carrying her out heroically to big, triumphant music - and then unceremoniously dumping her as soon as is convenient - is _actually funny._ the timing's well done. the joke's just okay, i guess, but the timing is solid. so hey, props to them even if they got _one thing right._

So many 60s things were adapted in the 90s. Flintstones, Beverly Hillbillies, Brady Bunch, Mission Impossible, etc.

They should do a soft-reboot with Wednesday Adams being the matriarch of a new family. Angela Houston was 40 when the film came out, and Christina Ricci is now 40. It's perfect. Edit: Ariel Winter is the sister of the actor that played Pugsley. Cast her as Wednesday's daughter.

Mommy, I'm scared! Of the Addams Family? No...the cheap spin off.

Lurch tossing the woman he saved got an honest laugh out of me.

Hearing the theme song for “The New Addams Family” at the end was a nostalgic blast from the past. I barely ever watched it, but I must have heard snippets of the theme on promotional bumpers a million times while watching other shows.

In fairness, THIS Fester seems to be channeling the late Jackie Coogan.

Gomez Addams: "My family and I are fleeing to the one place not corrupted by the normal people...... SPACE!"

Everytime I stumble on addams family values it amazes me how good it is. The cast is absolutely sensational. Even the smaller parts.

I feel you man, the two original movies are my childhood. I've watched them countless times and still do to this day.

Tim Curry is simply the best, loved him since seeing him in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

The first movie, which goes for the second movie, is the example I always give when it comes to absolutely perfect casting. Angelica Huston and Raoul Julia had some of the best on screen chemistry I've ever seen, they were both masters at their parts, as was everyone else. Casting perfection.

If only Tim Curry was in more pictures that maximized his talent.

Oh no, I remember! Specifically how Mr. Tim Curry took over the eccentric take on Gomez Addams from the one and only Raul Julia. And Haylie Duff, the sister of Hilary Duff was one of the kooky family members. Stay safe and keep it up!

Okay, so that scene of Lurch at the swimming pool made me laugh.

Oh my god I NEED a video about the Addams family show at the end of this. Completely forgot that existed... Probably for good reasons. Love this channel. Keep up the great content!

I’m just hearing about this movie now, 22yrs later

This is an amazing production. So happy I found this channel. Raul Julia was amazing. I remember seeing him do a spot on The Arsinio Hall Show with a box of The Addams Family cereal. He and Arsinio tried the cereal in bowls of milk and Raul spat his back out into the bowl. It was hilarious. He was shocked by how sweet it was. It was like pure puffed sugar drops is what he said. Everyone was laughing so much. He was a tragic loss. Tim Curry did him great honor by the way he played the role.

No one, not a single soul: Hats Off: "Tim cArReY..."

I LOVE the Addams Family movies. My mother watched it in cinemas when she was just 13. Really good video mate. Love the usage of the Master of Disguise music at the start of the video.

At the risk of sounding very weird I say this ... I'm so glad I found your channel(s), as we are completely simpatico right now. I just watch the early 90's Addams Family films this past weekend, I watch Dick Tracy a couple weeks before your Almost Cult Classics podcast covered it, and then on your latest podcast you guys recommended Hoffa (92') which I watch a month ago. I should not leave this comment. Mother of God, I'm so lame.

Could they really be classified as "horror-comedies", though? Don't get me wrong, the first two were great, hilarious comedies, but, just straight comedy films. When I think "horror-comedy", I think "Blood Diner", "TerrorVision", or, "Creepshow".

7:28 i genuinely didn't expect the addams family to reference apocalypse now

I actually can't wait for the "New Addams Family" episode. I loved that show as a kid

I loved this film as a child- as an adult I thought it was a fever dream till I found my VHS copy of it! Still kind of love it. Great video!

Two other things released at the time - the family reunion idea was originally a subplot that was switched to the primary super last minute (poorly) and Tim Curry was also a 11th hour hire who can be seen reading his lines from cue cards in several of the scenes.

Why is he pronouncing “Curry” like that?

Thank you so much! I saw this when I was a kid (not sure how). When I bought the other 2 movies on DVD I really confused why they weren't the movie I remembered. To make matters worse, no one in my family remembered this. Thanks for confirming that this is a movie and not a fever dream

“SAY TIM CARRY ONE MORE TIME! I DARE YOU- I DOUBLE DARE YOU” -Jules -me watching this

The story of Raul Julia last movie street fighter is one of the most beautiful things i have ever heard 🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤

The key thing about the original Addams Family movies is that they came out at a time when they were trying to make big budget Hollywood movies based on old sitcoms. And where as other films failed trying to copy what the Brady Bunch movie did, that is self referential parodies made without the ironic nostalgic fondness for them, The Addams Family took things in a different direction. Sure, there was some inspiration drawn from the original series, but what they did with these movies was brilliant. They reinvented the characters without reinventing the wheel. They added a level of depth that you can't get with an episodic sitcom, all the while bulking up concepts and tweaking characters, interactions, and themes without completely throwing away what made the original sitcom and morbid New Yorker cartoons they were based on so special. They built the concept up, without tearing anything down, giving us something uniquely its own, while making a story for the characters that wasn't a 90 minute sitcom episode. Where THIS one failed was making the concept "family friendly" without knowing what "family friendly" meant, drawing too much from previous incarnations the wrong way where everything's a pale imitation, with ambitions of making it a franchise before making a product of quality. And the SAD thing is, while this was technically a pilot that was going to lead to a TV show, there's more thought, care, and better execution in said TV show than this movie ever had. Sure, it's not quite the original sitcom, but it does manage to have a fondness for the series, right down to it being a dream job for the actor that played Gomez (I forget his name). And that dream was even better when he got to work with John Astin who actually DID play his father (I think) in that series.

I love the new Addams family. Still got my fingers crossed it will be avaliable to owe someday

I remember watching it for the first time around the time Fox Family was airing the New Addams Family. I thought it was made for TV.

Will you review the 90s Brady Bunch films next? Maybe even talk about the original series if possible? I personally enjoy the 90s films, though I prefer the Original Series more

Its "Curry" isn't it? Not "Carrey?"

I'm excited to hear your take on the New Addams Family

What a great channel! I have such a fascination with these weird little offshoots and bizarre anomalies of Hollywood and television. Your taste and coverage of this stuff is so pitch perfect.

i've been on a binge of your stuff, good stuff man.

I remember several years back a rumor going around Tim Burton might direct a stop motion Addams Family movie. Tim Burton or not, I always felt like The Addams Family would have been perfect for a stop motion movie.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective starring TIM CARRY. Great video as always, by the way.

Hats Off Entertainment It's always a good day when you upload.

I love this series of yours! I NEED you to cover Munsters today!

I remember there was a subplot to this with two members of the 'Adams' family who ended up at the Addams house as well. That was actually kinda cute, with the hell those two went through.

As much as I love Tim Curry, he’s no Gomez Addams. As fun as he may be to watch giving it his all, it just doesn’t feel right, you know?

The watered-down humor in this (and characterization of Fester) feels exactly like the Addams Family saturday morning cartoon, to the point of me wondering if it was literally the same writers.

I remember this movie! It came on tv back in the day and my mom recorded it onto a vhs tape, so we always watched it that way. We had all the other addams familys recorded too

This one does pop up on Netflix in the UK sometimes.

I remember there was Addams family movie that featured most of the original family. John Astin and Carolyn Jones. I would like to see you cover that sometime.

Loving this series of videos! I can't wait for you to do the followup for the later Addams Family TV series!

I remember going to the theater to see The Addams Family movie. I loved it, and the second movie too. It made me wish I was an Addams too because their family was so much fun, and they looked at life differently. I miss being a 90’s carefree kid when kids were allowed to be kids instead of a 2020 pandemic adult struggling to survive!

Oof... the actor playing Fester comes off like he's trying to imitate the cartoon version but hasn't ever even heard of the cartoon

Looking forward to your review of the rebooted TV series . . . which did get John Astin to play Grandpa Addams.

I think someone forgot to tell the actor playing Fester that he wasnt playing Curly Howard from the Three Stooges

I rewatched Adams Family Values recently and it's so good

I was just gonna mention it till you basically teased it near the end talking about The New Addams Family TV show because the actress Nicole Fugere who played Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Reunion reprises her role in The New Addams Family which I thought was an interesting thing when I learned it. I actually enjoy The New Addams Family TV show I remember watching it when it was on TV on ABC Family back in the late 90s. I have since then come to learn a lot of the plots of the episodes are basically just modernized versions of the episodes from the 1960s series but I still enjoy them all the same. I can't help talk about The New Addams Family TV show then the movie you made this video for just because for me the TV show is a lot more interesting then the movie was at least to me.

The irony Is that John Astin was in one episode of the Saban's Addams series.

I loved this movie as a kid. I still have the VHS somewhere

Fantastic video! I just recently watched the original Addams Family movie and it is still so awesome. Looking forward to the next video.

I nearly had a heart attack and thought the title said Addams Family Values. That was superior to the first film in nearly every way.

omg i remember renting this film alot as a kid & loving it so much & this was before i discover the first two movies watching it now i'm like wtf was wrong with me

Awesome! You said you'd do Addams Family stuff towards October. You were true to your word. (-:

I'm excited for you talking about The New Addams Family. I remember actually growing up watching that show a bit.

Biggest Failure: A "Reunion" without a single original cast member. You should have had that before all the original stars was dead. (of course that'd be kinda difficult since a few of them died in the 1960's while the original show was still being recorded. When Morticia died the show was taken off the air.

I had totally forgotten this stupid, terrible, atrocity of a movie. God, how pitiful.

I recently watched both original films, and one interesting thing that caught my eye is that it at least appears (I'm too lazy to check imdb) that the little girl they antagonize in the first movie when they get kicked out of their home is the same person who plays the girl they antagonize at camp during the sequel.

I watched this video with my brother, insisting to him that when we were younger there was an attempt at an Addams Family TV show. He said it could be this film I was thinking of but I was sure I remembered too much specific detail (for example Lurch getting a record deal with a song called You Rang?, I wonder how the show managed to fail with writing like that?!). So thanks, the end of this episode assured me I haven't been making up terrible Addams Family sitcoms and I'm very much looking forward to your next AF video!

Daryl Hannah looks like she’d make a great Vampira though.😂

Not even Tim Curry and the original movie's Lurch could save this cinematic trash.

You just changed my life I didn't know there was a 3rd. Going to have to watch that first.

I actually watched this...and I completely agree. Thanks for making me remember this horrible memory.

I'm hoping for a reboot/sequel of the Sonnenfeld duology with Christina Ricci as the Matriarch of the Addams Clan one day. I think if its done well it could be great.

Daryl Hannah was particularly miscast, Angelica Houston will always be best.

Thank you for this latest entry in the Forgotten Failures lineup, Joe. I had never heard of it before, and it's obvious why. I tried to watch "Clue" but even with the always-entertaining Tim Curry in a pivotal role, I still couldn't get past the first 20 minutes. So I don't think I could manage to sit through this Addams Family movie. Still, I like peeking at these embarrassments, which you watch so we don't have to. :-D

Thank you for mentioning the TV series. I’ve never heard it talked about anywhere else, and I thought that I had invented it in a childhood-fever-dream. Please do a video on it!

Where is your accent from? The way you say his name sounds like Tim 'Carrey' to my ears.

The two films were such a classic with such a amazing cast, it would of been impossible make any new one just as good with different actors and actresses as well as toning it down. I did like that fan parody of Adult Wednesday; but they were basically forced to stop due to copyright. Raul and Angelica were the perfect Morticia and Gomez.

Will you please do a video on the new Addams Family? I remember watching it growing up and I absolutely adored it! I love to hear how it came to be. Thanks

Obviously the first 2 are a masterpiece but this one I still enjoyed just as much.. I wish I had a DVD release at least

The Addams Family movies werent Horror Comedies. Maybe Horror themed Comedy or Comedy Horror, but definitely not Horror Comedy.

The plot seems horrible lol. At least they brought back the "It" hand actor from before?

I don't know what you thought to the New Addams Family TV show that you mention at the end but I really enjoyed it way back when.

I grew up watching the both the addams family movies from the 90s and the old tv show on retro channels and the 90s version holds a special place in my heart we still can’t forget the original.