First Time Watching THE ADDAMS FAMILY Reaction... It was EVERYTHING I HOPED FOR

[@gibbletronic5139]

It is imperative that you react to the sequel "Addams Family Values" just before Thanksgiving.

[@reneeroxanneabeln2202]

COMPLETELY imperative. 😃

[@YukoValis]

I third this. 100% required.

[@bradmiller8517]

4thed

[@artandcard]

YES!!!

[@billthomas478]

We're Canadian. We already had thanksgiving

[@josemello9435]

YOU HAVE TO WATCH ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES NOW. ITS ONE OF THE BEEESTT SEQUELS IN MOVIE HISTORY!!

[@unicornunicorn3249]

Yes daddy.

[@tiffanyphillips6086]

Yes have too!! Please

[@AshLee92490]

Save it for Thanksgiving...

[@xhaleyxx]

FACTS IT'S REQUIRED

[@kingslayer2999]

Yes Joan Cusack is a baddie in Addams Family Values 😍😋😏

[@shainewhite2781]

RIP, Raul Julia, 1940-1994. He was the best Gomez Addams we ever had.

[@Lord_Raptor]

FACTS

[@kingslayer2999]

Also the Best M. Bison we've ever had in live action aswell 😁

[@3DJapan]

Homes from the sitcom was pretty good too.

[@evilbob840]

Raul Julia was excellent, but I still think John Astin was better. Although, I grew up on reruns of the TV show in the '70s, so I'm biased.

[@johnsensebe3153]

No one can take that away from him, even if they dug up his grave. Believe me, I've tried.

[@jeremiahalonzo]

Kat would make an excellent Morticia for Halloween!

[@DesertHomesteader]

I think that would work!

[@Metzwerg74]

true...

[@notmee2388]

Or Joker

[@tonk3878]

@@notmee2388It’s the teeth.

[@lawrenceladd30]

thirsty.

[@RJ-nm6qt]

Wednesday is named because of the nursery rhyme "Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is full of woe. Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving. Saturday's child works hard for a living. But the child that is born on Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, good and ga" 🌈 also this movie is not a remake but the Addams Family did start as comics in the New Yorker and had various TV versions decades before.

[@jjc5871]

My fat ass is far from graceful.

[@HandofOmega]

That's the story NOW, but the origin I always heard was that the name was a reference to the popular child actress Tuesday Weld! But not many remember her these days, so...

[@Bunny_Aoife]

@@HandofOmega i don't know what is true of those two, but i certainly know tuesday weld, while i never heard that nursery rhyme... but tbf im not native english, so me not knowing a nursery rhyme does not at all mean it is obscure... edit: PS i guess, i feel like those 2 things don't necessarily oppose each other, inspired by tuesday weld, but choosing specifically wednesday of all days because of the nursery rhyme would make sense.

[@the-NightStar]

It's funny that you say you had to suspend your disbelief about Fester knowing the Mamushka, but actually no. It's just very clever writing that it retroactively fits perfectly into the twist that he was Fester all along. He knew the Mamushka because somewhere deep inside, he remembered how much joy it used to bring him.

[@evilbob840]

That's what convinced me he was the real one the first time I saw the movie.

[@kennethcook9406]

That, and muscle memory is a thing. If you practice something enough, your muscles (or some unconscious portion of your brain) will remember how to repeat it like a reflex; even if you get amnesia.

[@ravenofroses]

what's funny is i just assumed the ball happened long enough after the shot with morticia flinging off the sheet that he'd had time to learn it normally. this makes way more sense!

[@YukoValis]

which is interesting because in one version of the script it turns out that wasn't fester. The entire cast vetoed that option and demanded he be the actual fester.

[@countgeekula9143]

Possibly the most perfectly cast movie ever. Everyone is fantastic. And the thing about the Addams is that while they are creepy and kooky and all together spooky they love each other deeply with Morticia and Gomez the ultimate relationship goal. RIP Raul Julia. He was a terrific actor.

[@Lazrael32]

Honestly it's how remakes should be done. A smart script, a talented cast, a solid director. and everyone having a love for the original source material. were there changes? sure. but the core of what made the tv show so fun is still there.

[@YukoValis]

@@Lazrael32 yep shame about the director being on that toy train. lol

[@snvhill]

Heck, even the music video for the movie made that point, and only emphasized how both that philosophy and the movie itself worked. The Addams... you'd have to talk to them and make some compromises and arrangements if you had them for neighbors. But compared to most of the other people in the movie, you'd easily choose the Addams.

[@TimedRevolver]

They're also incredibly accepting and charitable. All dude had to do was ask Gomez for the money and it would have been given happily. But attacking the family? That's never ending well.

[@Lazrael32]

@@TimedRevolver yeah thats a common theme. Accepting each other and caring about each other even if you are a bit kooky. When people were romantacising joker and harley i was always pointing to morticia and gomez as the ideal relationship.

[@blehblehblehh]

Now watch The Addams Family Values! Just as good.

[@reneeroxanneabeln2202]

Yes!! 😃

[@MsSwordwolf]

Your mention of the con artist 'mother' being the scariest part is cool, because that's the point. Whatever is outwardly wrong with the Addams, Gomez and Morticia are loving parents who support their kids without exception, and that's in addition to being totally in love with one another. Life goals.

[@HandofOmega]

Well, no matter how "scary" the Addamses are, you never get the feeling they would actually HURT anyone...which is why, as much as I did enjoy it, it left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth when the Wednesday series opens with her essentially attempting straight up *murder* on her fellow students (and permanently crippling at least one of them). I know, this is a new era, and I'm probably overthinking it, but...that just felt kinda "wrong" to me.

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

Addams Family was originally a newspaper cartoon then a TV show. Then this movie and its sequel. Sadly, Raul Julia died before they could make a third, and Anjelica Huston refused to be Morticia without her Gomez. So there was a third with a different cast, but it wasn't a well received. There was also a TV cartoon in the 1990s, I think. And now the animated movies and of course the Wednesday show, which is superb.

[@commanderwyro4204]

i didnt know that about Anjelica refusing. thats so sweet

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

Angelica Huston signed on to do two films, but she almost certainly wouldn't have done any more even with Julia. Her Morticia costume included a torturous and nearly rigid ribs-to-knees corset that prevented from sitting down. Instead of a chair, on set she was just provided with an angled board to lean back against. When you do see Morticia sitting, Huston's just wearing a waist corset that's still pretty painfully tight. Plus, to achieve Morticia's perfect, deathly pale complexion, her face was slathered with thick, heavy makeup, and her long wig was constantly sticking to it. After shooting almost every scene, a makeup artist had to come and unstick all that hair, clean the goop off it, then redo her face again. Huston really did enjoy working with her costars,and obviously had great chemistry with Raul Julia, but as you can imagine, the actual shooting process could be quite unpleasant for her, and she was very happy to put it behind her when it was all over.

[@trendane]

And the Scooby Doo crossover

[@Wayne-m9i]

In the black and white tv show, the Morticia in that version was knock out fine with a body that Angelica Houston couldn't pray enough to have.❤❤❤

[@JaimeTanner-b2i]

Actually a magazine cartoon. Charles Adams work appeared in The New Yorker magazine in the late twenties to late forties I think.

[@Haunter_Who88]

Addams Family values - not up for debate, you gotta watch that now ❤

[@zowxon]

Without delay!

[@mdroid7755]

A Gomez and Morticia style dynamic is the best relationship goal... 32:00 No, in the original 60s show Fester could always conduct electricity like that. Perhaps in the original comic strips too, though I can't recall. He would also frequently brag about how he could make bulbs in his mouth blink. 32:58 The whole perspective of the family is wholesome through embracing the macabre while being put out by the ordinary in the same way 'normal' people they encounter do the reverse. There's a great episode in the series where Wednesday comes home crying after school because of storytime where a knight in shining armor slayed a "poor dragon". Gomez was just as shocked to hear that while he comforted Wednesday and questioned the methods of the school LOL I always like to think of a line the 60s Morticia said, "Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."

[@torgosaves427]

I guess he lost his spark with his new 'mother'. Needed a recharge

[@gunnerysgthartman9263]

I think the Addams family are the most loving and supportive family in Hollywood history.

[@NJAsmodeus1]

The family IS love and acceptance. This and the sequel are comfort movies for me.

[@wirepatch]

"The Addams Family" was also a series in the 1960s. Just as delightful, and rather timeless.

[@memnarch129]

Part of the comedy, and commentary, of the Addams Family is how loving and supportive they are. They are weird, macabre, strange, etc BUT the support each other in everything they do and love each other for it. They are to put it one way the "perfect" supportive family. Where as normal families have issues and fight and bicker the Addams are always there for each other, in their own twisted ways.

[@Glisern]

I mean, the dance is kinda supposed to be the final piece in realizing that it IS Fester. They never said he died, only that he disappeared.

[@TheChickenlittle11]

Also I think it was muscle memory of how he knew that dance before his memories came back

[@andrewharrison5288]

Such a great movie! Wednesday's name comes from an old poem: "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living. But the child that is born on Sabbath day, Is bonny and blithe, good and gay."

[@slimmccoy8863]

The Addams' are odd, but not evil. They're a wonderful, loving family who accept each other for who and what they are. Top notch casting throughout, definitely recommend "Addams Family Values".

[@CarlosGarcia2]

The main takeaway is that although the family says some crazy things and they look unconventional they are incredibly kind and loving. Their family has gone through centuries of persecution so they will gladly open their home to those less fortunate even if there is a chance of betrayal because it's worth the risk to help someone who is truly in need. Please watch and react to the sequel next week! It's amazing!

[@MrGpschmidt]

A perfect adaptation of the iconic tv series (which you s/binge) - the opening sequence with the carolers is literally taken from the classic drawing by Charles Addams. Ricci's deadpan is so spot on awesome. Inspired casting for the main characters all around. I recommend the sequel and for another comedic horror you so need to see ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, Kat :D

[@rhia_code]

this was made as a laugh on the standard sitcoms and movies in the 90's. instead of a religious all american family, whose wife and husband always make snarky remarks at one another, an imagrant couple are still deeply devoted and in love, and who cater to more occulty things. instead of the husband despising his mother in law, Morticias mother lives with them. the siblings play happily together and the parents are supportive of anything they do. i adore it all

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

I loved your reaction to this, Kat. This was based off of two things, firstly a cartoon strip by Charles Addams with characters in his own family and the '60s TV show "The Addams Family", the sequel to this, "Addams Family Values" is just as much fun and well worth reacting to, Kat.

[@JMulvy]

RIP Raul Julia - Legend. The sequel is so good that it is hard to pick a best of the two. Seriously, THAT good!

[@jackkilman8726]

People are often caught off guard by how heartwarming the Addams family is. It's been my own experience that the most outwardly "weird" people are usually the most accepting, supportive, and loving people you'll ever meet. The Addamses are, in many ways, the family I wish I'd grown up with.

[@Lazrael32]

I always love that people get frazzled that Gordon knows the dance, but it is actually explained why he knows it. Based on his identity.

[@Uncle_T]

The Addams Family started as a comic strip in the 30's and was made into a popular tv-show in the 60's, so they'd been around for quite a while before these movies were made. And yes you need to watch the brilliant sequel for sure. :)

[@tremorsfan]

The actor who played thing has actually made an entire career out of playing disembodied hands. He also played a disembodied hand in a movie called Idle Hands.

[@DJKuroh]

Idle* Hands

[@claymccoy]

Addams Family Values is a good move to watch around Thanksgiving time.

[@mandachristensen8219]

You should also watch Suspiria(1970’s) and House(1970’s) -it is a crazy Japanese horror movie! Not scary, just spooky and surreal.

[@tremorsfan]

@@mandachristensen8219 Please make your own commend instead of putting it in my reply.

[@NJAsmodeus1]

The actor for Thing, Christopher Hart, was a speaker at my sister’s high school a few years after the movies came out. He did sweet tricks with rollerskates and cards. 😂

[@6022]

Did the audience give him a big hand?

[@robertscullin3824]

Now watch the second one as good as the first, especially the Wednesday parts

[@marcwright8395]

The Addams Family movies were remake of a 1960s black and white show The Addams family, which was actually based off of a comic strip that appeared in the New Yorker in 1938 created by a man named Charles Adams

[@johnsensebe3153]

Fun fact: Charles Addams didn't name the characters in his original cartoons. The TV show consulted with him to come up with the names.

[@megdelaney3677]

🖤ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES SOON PLEASE!!!

[@jjbb4546]

The sequel is superior but love this one as well.

[@lolmao500]

Both are amazing.

[@a-supernova-girl]

Absolutely watch the sequel, Addams Family Values. It's sort of a Thanksgiving-adjacent movie.

[@kevenpeoples]

Addams Family Values is even more fun if you can believe it!

[@Dharp666]

The second one is even better

[@jjkk1630]

The Addamses' macabre contrast with the stereotypical US family was the whole point of their characters at first, but as they grew in popularity that was joined by the unique way in which they welcome the bizarre and unconventional with open arms and never truly become rude or inhospitable towards anyone, even those who would harm them. A good classic example of this was the "Addams Family Meets a Beatnik" episode of the 1960s sitcom, where the Addamses eagerly welcome a wayward biker into their home after he runs away from his judgmental old-fashioned dad, and while a lot of characters in the show end up running away from the Addamses in terror, he bonds with them when he sees how kind and accepting they are, which in the end inspires his father to accept him as well ("they may be kooks, but they're MY kinda kooks" is an iconic line from that episode).

[@rmhartman]

they came from a cartoon in The New Yorker. First adapted to TV in the late sixties. You MUST watch that show! Even if you don't do a react (but you could ... at least a few episodes)

[@6022]

Agreed. It's certainly worth watching. The original Gomez and Morticia being played by Carolyn Jones and John Astin, father of Sean Astin, AKA Sam from Lord of the Rings.

[@dinejoker99]

seeing u enjoy this movie so much has brought me so much joy.

[@TheBathofBlood]

gomez and morticia are couple goals for sure.

[@Letha-Mae]

Kats reactions are the best!! I'm definitely feeling MORTICIA! She is beautiful...🖤🤍

[@edpublic]

And the Addams's have Always been about Acceptance from their toon days to Specially on the TV Show(gotta see)

[@keithdavidsen772]

I love Kat's energy every time that she reviews a film.

[@Cadinho93]

What's so powerful about the Addams Family is that the Addams are not just out of the ordinary, they specifically go against so many of the conventions surrounding family life, decency and they're freaky weirdo monster people, but they're so open, accepting and supportive of absolutely everyone. They're functional and loving. Also, "Addams Family Values" is definitely worth watching!

[@tinkerhell-kj3mv]

People say Gomez and Morticia are couple goals, and that's true, but what they never seem to comment on is that they're also parent goals and the Addamses are family goals. And feminist goals, for that matter. This family LOVES EACH OTHER, and this was during an era when the height of comedy was "this family hates each other, for no reason, lol."

[@positivelynegative9149]

The Addams Family pinball machine is the best-selling pinball machine of all time. 😃

[@BB13131313]

This was a huge film for me when I was 7-8.. Addams Family Values is even better by almost every metric..

[@Cifer77]

Gomez & Morticia are the absolute PEAK of Relationship Goals. (and just behind them is Peg & Al)

[@stevegrohowski909]

Gomez & Morticia: they are the relationship goal!

[@MartinMaxFerdinand]

You earned this one with your "Sinister-in-the-Attic"-reaction - well deserved! :)

[@patrickharris1341]

My wife and I really enjoy watching your videos! Please watch Fright Night from the '80s (not the remake). -- 80s corniness - check. -- 80s synth - check. -- 80s practical effects - check. -- Great humor - check. -- Really cool lead baddie - check. I think you'll enjoy it. I love it! Thank you! Patrick and Jasmine

[@Riggswolfe]

One of my favorite things about these movies is despite how "evil" the family is the biggest takeaway is how much they all love each other. Especially Gomez and Morticia. Relationship goals.

[@Enthymene]

0:37 this is a CROSSOVER holiday movie, beginning on Christmas and ending the following Halloween. The sequel is also a holiday movie, incidentallly.

[@houdin654jeff]

Gomez and Morticia are the perfect screen couple, and Raul Juilia was a treasure. Clearly having so much fun with this role, RIP Raul.

[@ianmoracastellanos.7455]

I recommend you watch the TV 60's series, are horrible great fun 😉

[@Hey_Jamie]

This and the sequel are top tier. So greatly executed for their genre.

[@renedavids6154]

GREEEEAT movie and even GREEEEEATER reaction. And now for the next one. I love the Adams family. R.I.P. Raul Julia (Gomez Adams). By the way, the Thing was played by Christopher Hart. Lurch was played by Carel Struycken with a length of 2,13 m, also played a small part in Man in Black. And don't forget the other great actors. Love the script and the dark humor.

[@melissaroszkowski8911]

I always kind of thought that Morticia knew he was acting. But she knew it was actually really him, even with the amnesia

[@nancytoothaker3224]

They just hit 100% on everything in this movie- the cast, the script, the sets, the wardrobe, the details, everything. And yes, I'll reiterate what everyone else has already said, watch the sequel.

[@steveglynn1006]

I am certain that numerous comments will say the same, but the whole bit with the Addams is that they are a loving, functional, happy and mutually supportive family that is just really macabre. Time and Context are huge with this. At a time when the only joke on every Sitcom on every channel was "gosh don't men and women actually hate each other, aren't husbands stupid, aren't wives shrews and wet blankets" you suddenly had Gomez and Morticia on the Big Screen. It's less unique these days, maybe. But a couple that not only respect each other, trust each other, work to support each other, and are also *shockingly* horny for each other was incredibly rare back when.

[@anthonysteinberg4853]

Raul Julia!! Perfect casting for Gomez👍

[@Byrvurra]

Yeah Thing was a bit of a special effects marvel when this movie was released. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing som featurette on television back in the day about how they did it. The actor who portrayed Thing is a professional magician.

[@sasugakirin]

I was a teen when this movie came out and I remember being totally shocked at how good Thing looked when he was running around. In the old tv show he was always just a guy hiding behind furniture so no one expected him to be scurrying all over at high speed

[@positivelynegative9149]

Yay! 😃 It's been 2 months since you watched something I've seen. 😭

[@michaelblaine6494]

The sequel is great too

[@yesfed2730]

Fun Halloweenie movie. Good choice Kat! Now get to some serious horror films. Try Takashii Miike films. Best Japanese horror Master. Give Ichi The Killer..if you Dare! Cheers!

[@McPh1741]

I remember watching this in the theater on Christmas Day with my brother and cousins. The sequel is equally as good and I hope you watch it. RIP to Raul Julia who played my favorite verion of Gomez Addams. In the original comic strip he is depicted as short, tuddy, and unattractive. John Astin's protrayal of Gomez in the 1960s TV show was a slight break from that but Julia's was the first (and maybe only time) he was shown as a handsome, suave "lady killer".

[@noirlin027]

lets go for part two!!!

[@alicestevens8291]

This is an example of a film where they executed every scene perfectly. Credit to the editing then too of course. They hit the bullseye on every take.

[@ValkyrieLadyK]

The Addams Family was originally a tv show in the 1960's starring John Astin (Sean Astin's dad). It was still well known at the time this movie came out. The theme song is also pretty famous.

[@williamguenthenspberger]

And before that was the 1938 comic strip

[@bethcushway458]

The Addams's might be weird but they all love and support eachother deeply. Thats why we love them so much. Dr Pinder Schloss is a manipulative psychopath who's only out for herself and doesn't give a sh*t about anyone including her "son" that's why we hate her.

[@AlBQuirky]

The Addams Family started as a newspaper cartoon. It got popular enough for a TV series in the 60's starring John Astin as Gomez Addams. It ran for a few years. I believe it spawned "The Munsters" TV show. about a monstrous family with a "odd niece" named Marilyn, who was actually a beautiful blonde woman. This series starred Fred Gwynn aa Herman Munster (a Frankenstein monster) and Yvonne de Carlo as Lilly (a Vampiress). Both of these shows turned the "normal family" values on their heads. I'm glad you enjoyed this movie. The sequel "Addams Family Values" is also a fun watch :)

[@HandofOmega]

How did we never get an Addams/Munsters crossover?? As far as can be determined, it really was a coincidental case of Parallel Creation (see also Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie)! Altho the Munsters were actual supernatural creatures, while the Addams were "just" humans into dark and scary stuff, I like to think they'd have gotten along famously!

[@glassofbrandy79]

This made me so happy!😊

[@benschultz1784]

This movie and its sequel were some of the last movies Raul Julía did before his death. His last film appearance was as M. Bison in the live-action _Street Fighter_ movie. The "for me, it was a Tuesday" meme was him in that movie.

[@the-NightStar]

In my opinion, he single-handedly saved that movie. Every scene with Raul's M. Bison is a joy, and a delight in an otherwise plodding, boring and very un-fun movie. It's worth watching JUST for every moment he is on screen. It's also worth noting that according to everyone on set and those that knew him personally, he loved being M. Bison and loved filming that movie, describing it as some of the greatest fun he's ever had in his career. While the overall movie is terrible, he makes it watchable. You can see the delight and fun in his eyes and feel it in his performance.

[@benschultz1784]

@@the-NightStar The story goes that his kids were fans of the games, so he wanted his final film to be something his kids would enjoy.

[@EddBanshee]

The Addams Family were definitely around before this! There's the live-action TV show. There's the cartoon. There's the very unfortunately, short-lived, live-action TV show, The New Addams Family.

[@pobstrel]

And the comic strip that started it all was first published in the 30's.

[@joecrammond6221]

nice to see so many reactors reacting to these films lately, i enjoyed the darker tone they gave the films, the original tv series was good but these were better i feel

[@polyglot12]

A fun old humorous horror film is "The Abominable Dr. Phibes." Just thought I'd throw that in.

[@anashiedler6926]

the addams family existed long before as a black and white tv series (60s i believe), which was very well known (at least in the dach region of europe), but even before that there was a cartoon of them that existed since the 40s. (but was mostly unknown in my region)

[@krashd]

I can't remember which came first The Munsters or the Addams Family but I do know that one was made directly because of the other, one of the big three US networks created a sitcom in the 60's about a supernatural family of freaks and it was an instant hit, so within a year one of the other two networks created their own to try and match their success and in the end we got the Munsters and the Addams out of it.

[@anashiedler6926]

@@krashd yeah, true, i remember as a kid always confusing both of them because they were so similar to me.

[@pricemoore2022]

Awesome reaction of my favorite The Addams family movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊

[@ursidaeDHD]

24:06 I high-fived my iPad onto the floor.

[@thomasgriffiths6758]

The judge is actor Paul Benedict who played The Number Painter on Sesame Street and as the English neighbor Harry Bentley on The Jeffersons.

[@anthonysteinberg4853]

Addams Family was a great TV show I loved as a kid.

[@tempusspiritus]

You should watch the 1960s tv series not necessarily to react to it, though I’d enjoy watching that, but just to see a great series which this movie took a lot of inspiration from. The sequel to this, which has a bit of a Thanksgiving theme, is often considered better than the original which is a sentiment I’d have to agree with.

[@jimpellegrinelli3847]

Such a great film! Do check out the sequel Addams Family Values sometime, and thank you for another great Wednsday!

[@carlosrvra]

- Not for nothin' Kat, but Addams Family Values is not only one of those sequels that equals or surpasses the original, but it would also be PERFECT for Thanksgiving next month. - 25:55, And thus, a rivalry was born. - For what it's worth, in the show WEDNESDAY, I think Fred Armisen should've played Gomez, and Luis Guzman Jr. should've played Uncle Fester. Swap those parts, and the casting would feel SO RIGHT!

[@cowboy1165]

Kat: "Who's hand is that? Was it ever attached to a person?" lol I always have a pair of feet show up at family gatherings, Kat. I think they only hang around all night to dance.

[@matwetton]

Values is even better.

[@PierceArner]

I really love how it juxtaposes the Addams extremity against the "normalcy" of the manipulative abuse that's more easily overlooked. You can really tell the writing and performances nailed it, since that's exactly what stood out to you about it.

[@Babbles217]

well this was a nice change of pace. great reaction!

[@piggylumps3823]

The Addams Family has been around for a long time. The first appearance was a single panel comic in 1938. The iconic tv series started in 1964 and ran for two seasons but it still gets shown in syndication

[@3DJapan]

Previously a B&W sitcom and before that a single panel comic strip. In the original comic the characters had no names, they were made up for the sitcom.

[@krashd]

This would have been one hell of a franchise but sadly we only got two of them because Raul Julia who played Gomez so brilliantly died after the second movie.

[@shirleycampbell3527]

I love your channel just found it and love watching ur reaction to the films

[@sharonellis8776]

Hi Kat. Glad you enjoyed this. Now watch Family Values - the sequel xx

[@dereknight861]

Kat welcome to the family. Mind the house plants ^^

[@GSErnie]

As a kid, I knew the characters from the black and white TV series that ran on NBC from 1964 to 1966. That series was itself based on comics dating from the late 1930's. It ran as reruns for many years, and you can tell that the people who made this movie drew a lot of inspiration from the source material.

[@merchillio]

Gomez and Morticia truly love each other, and the family is supposed to be the antithesis of the average American family, it says something. They don’t just love each other, they are head over heels in love. -How long has it been since we’ve waltzed? -Hours is my favourite dialogue between those two.

[@ink-cow]

Trivia: The family names and history were established in the original 1950's TV series. Morticia's maiden name is Frump, and her mother Hester was first played by Margaret Hamilton (the wicked witch from the classic Wizard of Oz). Thing (the hand) is no one's hand in particular, but in the TV series it was often the actor who also played Lurch (Ted Cassidy) sticking his hand through a box. Ted Cassidy's Lurch is the one thing that no other version has been able to match. They wrote entire episodes around him. This film version was based on the TV series but also paid tribute to the original cartoons, which were one panel gag cartoons drawn by Charles Addams for the New Yorker magazine. It was 1942 when Gomez asked Morticia, "unhappy darling?" "Yes, YES! Completely."

[@floorticket]

Finally a non-horror movie. Good to see you branching out.

[@raspberrybellini]

Those tiny children crying so convincingly was that they were told a doctor was coming in a few minutes to give them an injection wow

[@HandofOmega]

The composer's notes on the soundtrack note that, when asked to do this movie, he just KNEW that Danny Elfman had already said "no"! I always wondered if the director said the same about Tim Burton...

[@williamblakehall5566]

There are deep roots to this. A cartoonist named Charles Addams (hence the name) invented the family for a long and successful string of cartoons for the New Yorker magazine. The New Yorker has always been loved for its cartoons, but the Addams household was special. After a while, someone decided to make a TV show about them. (The show was so successful that something called The Munsters was created as a rival.) I was never a big fan of the show, but you might check out an episode or two to get a feel for it. For the show, Gomez Addams was played by John Astin -- father of Sean Astin, Sam in the Lord of the Rings movies -- with a wonderful crazed crooked grin, and Carolyn Jones played Morticia. My favorite character may have been the always reliable towering giant with a deep voice, ted Cassidy, in the role of Lurch, who always inquired "You rang ... ?" in the most intimidating way.