One thing I appreciate is that the designs are based on the original works. But somehow they made the “normal” people look even scarier than the adams family.

I’m still mad about how they did Morticia. She’d never bash on Wednesday like she did in the movie for wearing pink or smiling or deciding not to be as gothic. When her kid came out “normal” in Values, she switched up his decorations in his room and started reading him cute stories instead of scary ones. Literally the most un-judgemental mom character having her traits flipped on their head for the sake of conflict. Sad.

The saddest thing about this movie is how the character designs for The Addams actually look pretty spectacular . . . For a Stop-Motion Animated Movie. Not a Computer-Animated film.

The fact that Tim Burton could have made a stop motion film on the Adams family, but instead we got *this* is devastating

I think the reason the jokes don’t always hit is because the Addamses never struggled with the modern world in the TV show or in the movies. Gomez was an active business investor that stuck strictly to the schedules of a financial year but had so much money that he didn’t notice he was being taken advantage of. Morticia was an active member of several social clubs and the Ladies’ Auxiliary and the school PTA. Pugsley and Wednesday went to school with regular kids. The family just was just so cheerfully different while also being wealthy and confident enough to get away with their eccentricities even in the face of “Good Old Fashioned America.” They were weird and proud and it didn’t matter if people understood them. When carolers show up at the door, the traditional and proper Addams greeting is a pot of boiling something on the head. An engagement means a bridal shower same as any other family, but the Addamses just put a special twist on it just by being themselves! And they support one another no matter what. So long as they are happy and using the right tools for their experiments, have at it family! Having the Addamses be hermits with a “no outside world” policy just doesn’t feel right and it doesn’t fit with why the Addams Family was such a hit.

I love designs for the Addams’s and fits the characters and tbh the voice cast did an incredible job. My issue is the “We’re scared that no one will accept us and the world is a cruel and dangerous place. We want our family to be safe and accepted” thing that The Addams’s were scared of. Um…last I checked, the Addams’s didn’t care what people thought of them. Any insult or ill will was taken as a gesture of affection and kindness for them. They welcomed it! I think in one of The Addams Family animated shows, a neighbor, who really hates them, insulted them and/or tried to get rid of them. And the Addams’s? They were so touched and honored that the neighbor “cared so much about them”

Probably the worst part of this film is what they did to Morticia. Having her have this stupid conflict with Wednesday is so incredibly against her character its jarring. And they could have had the conflict still revolve around that, but be because Morticia now feels like she doesn't know her own kids and is sad that she is possibly losing this connection to her daughter. Like, that's what the Addams family does.

You know, Grandma is actually supposed to be Morticia’s mother and Gomez’ parents are dead. So the movie didn’t even get that right.

You know they did something bad if the Adam family were considered the most normal people in the film

You're not going to bring up how the villain basically was forgiven for everything she did to try to kill the Addams Family and force her daughter and the residents living in her town to be normal or perfect? Probably one of the worst conclusions to a villain’s arc and redemptions in fiction.

There is a universe where this movie is well-written, faithful, stop-motion and has NO cheesy pop or rap music. It's the universe with bug ice cream and giant man-eating spiders, which makes the Addams Family there a bit more normal, but I'm angry I don't live there.

2:05 - Okay, I'm barely familiar with The Adams Family (I think my only exposure to the franchise was seeing the live action movie once over 20 years ago and The Nostalgia Critic review of it a while back), but I feel like that's enough to tell me that this scene/joke feels wrong. Like, shouldn't her response to him comparing her hand to a dead fish while he kisses it be something more along the lines of "save the flattery for when we get home" or "You always know JUST what to say"? I feel like that would've been a more appropriate joke to make here rather than an unfunny sight gag. It's like they sacrificed character development for the sake of humor, and poor humor at that.

Animated movies get redone as live action: *Often terrible* Live action classic get turned into animation: *Often terrible* Ayo, uh, Hollywood? Other movie companies? Maybe slow down on the remake, eh?

Honestly, a Tim-Burton-helmed, stop-motion Addam’s Family movie probably could’ve been Illumination’s best work if they went through with it. It honestly would’ve fit with the theme of the Addam’s Family much better, sorta like what Burton did for The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I don't like the fact that they made the Addams Family hate "normal" families. They never hated normal people. They found them weird, but never actually stopped their kids from investigating the regular world. And they loved their "normal" child when he was born.

"Was this movie written by three people and only one of them was good?" I've never heard such a succinct and funny way to describe enjoying something you hate so much.

I didn't think body limbs on animated characters could get anymore skinny, but this year's "Marmaduke" proved me wrong, yeesh.

I actually think pinkafying the house near the end was a really neat reference to the colour of the house the series originally filmed at. But of course, being in black and white on film, it didn't really matter too much

the annoying part about the movie, especially with Morticia is when they where made the Addams family was meant to be the opposite of most families, parents who loved each other, supported their kids. It's a great concept but they just BUTCHERED it here, TWICE, because there's a sequel that's a roadtrip movie

“oh no, she’s cringe” had me laughing way harder than it should have

Fun fact: at the end of the movie the house is painted pink as a reference to the fact that the house in the black and white house was painted pink to make it pop out more on screen

I think a problem with a lot of the jokes you’re describing is the delivery. For example: That “surfing the web” one had the potential to be funny had Morticia been self-aware of how dumb of a joke she was making. Like, halfway through of just silently walking across the bridge, she gives the other people a funny look and says “Hmphf. Surfing the web. Get it?- hahah, terrible.” Or something like that. Morticia has always kinda had “dad” humor, it’s always been a sort of minor trait of the whole family (in the original series’ anyway), I just think the DELIVERY and SETUP is more what is falling flat than the actual jokes themselves, if that makes any sense. Dad jokes can be really funny if you write them right.

They legit made a Karen a villain for a Adams family movie

The worst thing about this movie was the twist villain Like the plot of the movie is trying to normalize things that seem weird to others (aka the Addams) the movie didn't need a villain at all, the movie could have just been the Addams trying to fit in with the other people

Finally somebody that agrees. The Addams family 1991 cannot be beat.

This just isn't the Addams Family. Despite being os gothic, they don't let any amount of negativity get them down: it's maybe their most important defining trait. I once saw a post that said if there was a revolution to kill the rich, the Addams would insist on being next, no no, it's an honor you see. They'll even provide the means to do it. Gomez was feeling awfully left out when he saw all the other billionaires get the axe. "Some people have all the fun," he said. That's the kind of people they are, and I agree fully with it.

They made Morticia judgmental when she's actually the most supportive mother ever. Just rude

A shame as I got excited about this movie and saw it, then my mother mentioned the original show from the 60s and actually watched all 16 episodes, then I saw how bad of an effort this movie actually was. Gomez was a highly intelligent and very well put together man that dressed just so crisp, morticia was very well put together and was of equal intelligence to Gomez and both absolutely head over heals for each other. The kids have much more depth than the animated version and lurch was a charming though shy character in the story. And thing you can tell was a human hiding in a cabinet or piece of furniture but had its charm as well. The writing was also just really good and the Addams where definitely more morbid but in a wholesome way. Also, the animated feature kept the “French doing something to Gomez “ was hopefully subtle enough for kids but the nostalgia hit for the parents

The designs for the “normal” characters are just… wrong. It may have worked if they went in the more traditional cutsie direction or if the studio actually went in the stop motion route while keeping this design. But it’s very much an “either or” situation

Look at this show, that's mocking the toxic portrayals of TV families! It was so new and subversive by making the family love and support each other trough anything! LET'S MAKE A MOVIE WHERE THE MAINS CONFLICTS ALL COME THE FAMILY MEMENRS NOT ACCEPTING OTHER FOR WHO THEY ARE! The show literally did the whole plot - kids going to school and Pugsley wanting to be 'weird scout boy' and did it BETTER. Withing like first 5 episides I think.

That dead fish gag is actually a pretty standard Addams joke. 😂

One thing I don't understand is why this big creepy house is even there in the first place. Shouldn't the villain character have decorated it or torn it down ages before the Addams family arrived, when she started decorating the town?

The only character I liked in this film was Uncle Fester, from his singing to making his head go 360 degrees

I had a scary realization at the "your parents will know that reference! Give us a good review" line. I got annoyed that Dazz would say that about Mr. Rodgers because that was something I- and probably he- grew up with. My mom would only know the song because of me watching it as a kid. And then I realized that *I'm* the one who they're making that reference for. *I'm* the parent who was dragged to the theater by my kid that doesn't exist because I'm infertile. I'm a thirty year old aunt with a seven year old niece. There are people who I went to high school with who has 15-17 year old children today. This fucking review gave me an existential crisis.

Just got the most perfectly timed add brake of all time, after the line: and she's her daughter and gives the news that- and then it cuts to the "vaping can deliver toxic fumes into your lungs" commercial

Only thing I like about this movie is that when it came out you could get a giant 'limited edition' cookie for like $1 ($0.5 U.K / U.S I think) but dang those cookies were the best cookies I ever had.

Oh God no, this can't be your first Addams Family experience! Watch some episodes of the 1960s TV show, STAT!

I do get why certain staples get animated, there is only so many times you can recast someone as a character before it gets weird or meaningless. So animating the characters makes a ton of sense. Mr. Bean has remained ageless because of the animated show. The biggest difference being that the animated Mr. Bean is at least mostly true to the original humor and intention(especially since Rowan himself was voicing the character as long as possible).

Honestly I really liked the designs for the Addams themselves, but the "normal" people designs in the movie are either boring or ugly or both, with no inbetween

To quote Nick from 24 Frames of Nick: "I have no idea why every human in this movie is so insanely skinny or so *fat!"*

This movie is iffy, but I will argue to my grave that the New Jersey joke is hilarious lol

The person who made The Nightmare before Christmas could have made the Addams family, why has God forsaken us.

The characters in the town look like those characters in the terrible Marmaduke movie.

Somebody on Twitter asked people to list abusive relationships that people love, and after I said "basically any couples from the silent or boomer generation on TV" I made a realization. Morticia and Gomez being millennial parents just wouldn't work. Part of what made them stand out for their time (both the comic and the 60's live action sitcom) is that they are absolutely in love with each other. It was made in an era where one of the most quoted lines from television was from Ralph threatening to beat his wife every time she was sarcastic and that was treated as being a beloved, classic joke. "I hate my wife" was relatable to the silent and boomer generations. Divorce was practically unheard of to them. These days it's taboo *not* to get a divorce if you hate your spouse. Why the fuck would you subject yourself to living with somebody who you hate? We live in a generation where living with your significant other before getting married is encouraged. Millennial divorce rates are some of the lowest in generations- not because it's seen as taboo to leave, but because you had time to experience that generations before you (besides maybe gen x) did not. I don't want to toot my generation's own horns, but Gomez and Morticia's relationship is normal these days. And in a way that's kind of beautiful- the fact that loving your spouse was seen as "weird" is finally normalized. But that's why Gomez and Morticia being millennials wouldn't work- because their love for each other is normal. But it'd just be really fucking miserable watching the main couple hate each other so I'm glad that they seemed to have kept that part in.

Do we still need movies about accepting people? Have people really not gotten it so hard that we need to make every other movie about it? It feels so dirty to be using the Adam's family like this. Arent they like a celebration of the weird and macabre? Do we really need to put THEM in this kinda situation? To the point that we have someone ATTACK THEIR HOUSE WITH BOULDERS JUST FOR BEING DIFFERENT?!?!?! That feels like spitting on their legacy

“Everything these days is getting an animated rerelease and so many of them are just BAD” **thinks of Monster High** jokes aside, i hate how they removed the old show from Netflix 💀

You know who did “perfect town vs creepy family” plot better? ZOMBIES. THE ZOMBIES MOVIE BY DISNEY.

I was dragged to watch this with my mum in the cinema. One of the worst things I've seen

I’m 23 and I fondly remember mr Roger’s neighborhood then again I was old enough to see the final seasons of the show as a young kid.

I went to an outdoor viewing of this, thinking it was the 90s film. One of the kids tripped and pulled the screen down, and that was our chance of escape!

As a kid who grew up with the Addams Family movies when I was 12 and 14 in the early 90's, please watch those movies. Those movies and the old Addams Family sitcom are worth watching. You'd have a much better idea of how cool they are from watching them.

Your sass and absolute hatred of these terrible movies are the only things that make them interesting. Thank you so much ❤please carry on!!!

Literally only one joke landed for me and it was at the very end. Where fester is introducing his new girlfriend.

Lol I’m glad you noticed about the piano keys. I wasn’t all that interested in the movie when I saw it, but I watched the keys like a hawk anytime they were on screen (I was music-obsessed at the time and had picked up the ability to notice in movies when the instruments weren’t played accurately with the music… in addition to that, I also remember watching the keys played in this movie and then coming home and playing the sequences myself, just to make sure they were accurate to what I saw). In short, the piano keys being accurately animated was one of the only things I liked about the movie lol

They really could’ve used the modern people to counter the vintage aesthetic of the Addams, but that’s far from this movie’s problems

No one tell him that they get rid of the noose pigtails in the sequel. DAZZ DON'T READ THIS

And this demonstrates why illumination is the animation kiss of death

The humans arms look like breadsticks

Whats silly is the design aspects of the characters make sense. The addams family are 'weird' but to them the outside onlookers are the weird ones. The problem tho is that I can tell the designs were made for a 2d look. Or st least their concepts were designed that way. The super exaggerated features I think wouldnt be as jarring in 2d. But in 3d...the proportions are just too weird ESPECIALLY since they dont USE those to their advantage. The character deaigns can be off the wall in the Transylvania series because the energy and movement in them feels cartoony. So the designs lend well to the action of the characters. Here...everyone looks crazy but are also stiff. So it comes across just....odd.

I remembered kinda looking forward to this movie, I was a senior at a time, until I saw the designs of the "normal" characters and that's what got me to stray away from this movie for good

little did he know Tim Burton would make WEDNESDAY and save the Addams family

I was using this as background noise, but then I heard the Danganronpa music and then stopped doing my homework and gave this my full undivided attention

The rapping at the end was the worst part of the movie XD

"What a relatable hand " -_-

The red baloon was used a lot in marketing for this film. It feels like it was inserted entirely to ride on the back of IT's popularity. IIRc it released shortly after IT chapter 2

I have to admit when I heard Dangonronpa music in the background during the video, a wave of nostalgia hit me. Okay, it might have been about three years since I played that game but it sure invoked a lot of emotions in me that almost distracted me from watching this review. It is a pretty fun video though and I look forward to you covering the sequel.

8:05 That isn't an Addams family reference, that's a Mr. Roger's Neighborhood reference

The sad part is, there is the bones of an interesting film here. Adams move from their home to the USA, seclude themselves (except Lurch who would have to buy groceries and stuff), and don't even notice the town, and all the normal suburban folks feel threatened by the spooky. folks who live in the house on the hill. Bam easy enough story right there.

"Oh no. She's cringe." -DazzReviews 2022

Personally I really think the Addams family only works in live action. It makes all the absurd actions like throwing knifes and less impactful when it’s a cartoon. Like all cartoons are like this so it takes the impact away

16:07 - 16:10 somebody please make this a meme

The "oh no..., she's cringe" caught me so off guard, I love this place :]

As a woman named Parker myself (I'm also a 3d character animator) it hurts me that these characters designs are so...um, interesting. I attempted to watch the movie earlier this October, and I made it about thirty minutes before I shut it off. One of the only compliments I had for the movie was somehow they knew to put ambient occlusion in the corners. And that was about it. Everything else is atrocious, and I don't wanna share my name with that character.

2:54 No one told me there's a foot fetish joke in this movie 10/10

Lurch playing the theme to Mr Rogers Neighborhood it makes me miss the show and Fred Rogers that much more

Excuse me NO ONE disses Mr Rogers

The best part of the character designs was Wednesday's noose twin braids. Honestly, as much as the rest of the film didn't hit for me, the character designs and Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday balanced it out a bit for me.

I despise this version of the Addams. The Addams family is in a way the perfect family like they care for each other, they support each other at every turn, Gomez and Morticia have the ideal love life for crying out loud but this version is just a stupid mock up of their dynamic. Also I know it's technically in line with the comic design but I can't get over Gomez's design, for me it's probably the worst one. I might be too nostalgic towards Raul Julia's Gomez but I adore that version of him, the slick and joyful business man with passion in every word that he was is just too good. Oh and the design of every "normal" person looks like they were held at gun point by a blind person to create designs that looked good for them and the blind lunatic just stopped randomly at this ones.

''I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me.'' Wednesday, you are no Rorschach.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! WE COULDVE HAD A TIM BURTON ADAMS FAMILY :(

I’m gonna be honest, when I was flying on a plane I remember watching this movie and thinking that is was actually pretty good.

I will never get over Oscar Isaac being in this shitty animated movie, when he would've been an AMAZING live action Gomez. Have you seen the him with a pencil thin mustache and eyeliner?? Perfection.

The only thing I liked was how they got Lurch in the crew.

honestly the way they animated the ''normal'' people made me uncomfortable the entire movie, I felt like they where staring into my soul

The best part of this movie was the Thing looking at feet for no freaking reason on the computer, that actually caught me off guard when it came on this video. Fun fact: the British Sonic 3 guidebook canonically says that Glove on a Stick from Hydrocity Zone is canonically better than The Thing from The Addams Family. And yes, it is real.

I adored the Addam’s family and…no, none of this is right.

i love how good animation stuff get bad life action remakes and good life action stuff gets bad animation remakes lol

I would’ve liked it if the twins had more interaction with Wednesday and she gives them a makeover to look like the Grady twins!

It makes me wish for the Tim Burton stop motion animation. Essentially, this movie is what Nightmare Before Christmas would look like without stop motion and the writing is horrible.

If nothing else, pleeeeeease watch the two 90s movies, they're amazing.

Just in time for Halloween 🎃! Thanks Dazz!

when this movie came out, i had a hyperfixation for the Addams family, i watched all the episodes i could find, and the movies. even went as Wednesday for Halloween, so when this was announce, i was existed, but never went to see it. and i'm glad that i didn't because this movie is just god awful. the sequel is even worse. i still wished they were able to make the stop motion version, that would have been so cool. also, there was the webseries with Wednesday as an adult, and the people that made it got a cease and desist letter from that studio that made this terrible movie. Which is just awful, Melissa Hunter's KZfaq series, 'Adult Wednesday Addams' had to be taken down even though it was under fair use and at the time the Addams family was in the public domain, though i might be wrong. God the Addams Family deserve so much better than this. they just the characters so wrong it causes me pain. I hope we can get a good animated movie for them at some point. anyway, loved the video Dazz.

"Honey! New DazzReviews video has been released! And It's part of the 'Terrible' series!"

i dont now if this is the case of planned reference or coincidence but originally for the black and white scenes, the walls of the set were pink! but I seriously dout it was planned. 🤔 (it was pink because it showed better on the gray scale of the film).

i was actually waiting for you to review this one!!

The villain had to be the worst character and even her daughter being emo too. Ugh!

I didn't hate this movie, nor did I love it

This movie committed the absolute atrocity that is making the Addams family B.O.R.I.N.G

I still have the “koombiya my lord-“ song in my head from the GOOD adams family movies😂😂

With that epic cast, this is probably the one time I’d have preferred a live action film over animation.