In 1991, a soon-to-be-iconic TV series was aired called The Addams Family.

The show swiftly became a huge franchise, that spawned video games, books, soundtracks, comics, and even a broadway show. With many famous older movies/shows being revamped into modern times, it wasn’t a surprise that The Addams Family soon followed suit. Being a big lover of the cinema, I decided to watch the reinvented movie myself.

The 2019 Addams family was definitely intriguing, and something that I wanted to delve myself further into. Unlike the original, the current version of the film was animated- which allowed for the truly eccentric side of the characters to shine. In the movie, two characters are at their wedding ceremony -Gomez and Morticia- and are chased out of their home by the village folk and are labeled as ‘monsters.’ The couple wishes for a safe place to start a family and move into an old abandoned asylum in New Jersey, where they renovate the asylum into a perfect home with a helpful hand (literally!) and a newly found butler–who happens to be a Frankenstein. Over the span of 13 years, the couple grows into a family and has two children, ‘Wednesday’ and ‘Pugsley.’

The main antagonist in the movie is ‘Margo,’ a woman who has a popular home makeover show. Margo is preparing for a large season finale for her network, where she builds a pastel pink town called Assimilation and aims to sell every home, by making everyone and everything ‘the same.’ She goes through extreme measures to monitor the citizens and influence them, so extreme that she has a secret surveillance room that exposes hidden cameras placed in all residences. The main conflict in the story occurs when news gets to Margo that all members of the Addams Family will be arriving in town at the time of her finale for Pugsley’s mazurka (A mazurka is a ceremony that acts as a right of passage for all sons in the Addams Family).

The rest of the movie has the classic cliche of ‘good vs evil,’ and leads to a touching moral quoted by Wednesday, “We cannot judge someone just because they are different.”

I loved the Addams Family characters, they had fascinating personalities, not the mention the animation detail was incredible. Even the detail of the old asylum in which the family resides in left me wanting to know more. For such amazing characters and settings, I was slightly disappointed with the dull and overused plotline. The outcome of the movie was very predictable, which was odd, considering the characters were not. Regardless, ‘The Addams Family’ induces heart-warming nostalgia, which was seen as the whole movie theater chanted along to the original theme song during the end credits of a spooktastic reinvented movie.