THIS IS THE ADDAMS FAMILY?!?! Reacting to "The Addams Family Movies" by Nostalgia Critic

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

The '90s cartoon had one episode in particular I love, where Gomez realizes he's succeeded at all his efforts, and wants to give failure a try for a change! Except he continues to succeed at what he's going for despite every effort to make it as difficult as possible for himself (e.g. picking stocks based on Fester's advice, skydiving into a thimbleful of water while knitting a sweater, etc.) And at the end of the episode, he's lamenting his inability to fail... at which point Morticia points out that he *has* failed by failing to fail!

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

"I'm going into this completely blind!" So, in other words, just an average Wensday for you. "I guess rated R movies weren’t a thing." Oh no, they were quite a thing back then. In fact the R rating has been around much longer then PG-13, which wasn’t introduced until the mid 80s.

[@DieselWeasel]

Firefighters are called that... because they fight fires. XD

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

19:15 Basically the whole joke is that she's a completely spoiled, greedy and bratty womanchild at heart. When she gives her villain origin story speech near the end of the movie, she mentions getting the wrong kind of Barbie doll for Christmas one year, and treated it like some robber broke in and killed her parents.

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

"MALIBU Barbie! That's not who I was! I was a *ballerina!* Graceful! Delicate! They had to go."

[@YukoValis]

I still love that family listening to her speech and sympathizing. Especially the granny. "oh an axe? that takes me back.."

[@MariuigiKhed]

17:10 Lurch is... have no idea. A Frankenstein-esque zombie maybe? The animated movie suggests it is a zombie or a not quite dead mummy that the Addams "adopted" into a butler.

[@tylerstokes4124]

Addams family is literally played like on repeat on family channels during halloween and thanksgiving so most kids have seen this first over the animated one.

[@majorleaguezombie796]

"i'm going into this completely blind. i know nothing about the Addams Family" what else is new, Luke? what else is new? XD

[@featherguardian6023]

I remember my stepmom showing me the Addams Family Duoligy and I love every single moment of it that to me it’s the Accurate Version of this Over the Top Dark Family we come to know and love today, Outside of the Wednesday Series non one of them succeed on replicating the Magic of the Original.

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

The Addams Family motto: "We Gladly Feast Upon Those Who Would Subdue Us."

[@timothymorris157]

The 90’s Barry Sonnenfeld movies are the best we’ll ever see of The Addams Family…. EVER! Nuff said.

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

Since next week will be the week of the 4th of July, why not celebrate with NC's review of Independence Day.

[@HB-fq9nn]

Which one?

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

​the first one

[@PaulW_ftPAULK]

He does like that film so it'll be fun.

[@YukoValis]

People really can't fathom the rating system we had in the 80's/90's. It is not the same anymore. Things rated R needed to really do something crazy. While rated PG was given to just about anything. The first animated movie I ever saw was "Wizards" by Ralph Bakshi. The movie includes nudity, violence, blood, war, execution, abortion, antisemitism, nazis, and drugs. It was rated PG.

[@ericb9252]

Fun Fact: John Astin, the original Gomez Addams from the 1964 series, is the father of Sean Astin, AKA Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings trilogy

[@renji90998]

There’s technically a third live action movie. It was a direct to video under Saban Studios. I say technically because only one of the original cast is in it. Think it was supposed be a movie pilot for a series that didn’t launch.

[@BlazeWriter]

18:44 It was a show

[@renji90998]

Some of the things that made the Addams family weird in the original 60’s series, consider modern in today’s family status standard. Like in one episode Wednesday is upset and both Gomez and Morticia go see what’s wrong. In most nuclear families of that decade it is usually the mother that consoles the child. They even show that Gomez and Morticia have a sex life by having their beds together. In those days even if you were a married heterosexual couple, they had to have their bed separate. Lucille Ball and her actual husband Ricky Ricardo also had their beds together, but I’m pretty sure they were separate in the first season, and didn’t have them together until she was pregnant. It is sad that the actor that played Gomez in the 60 series is the last living cast member. He’s a Gomez without a Morticia, the same Way, Angelica Houston from the 90s Addams Family movies is a Morticia without a Gomez

[@MariuigiKhed]

Fun fact in the original comic run, both kids were on the same level of naughtyness but in the original TV series, Wednesday was the "more innocent" one. I mean, the very first episode opens with her crying because at school they were reading a story in which a dragon died. Yes. Then came the movie and... the rest is history. We never went back to the OG Wednesday (the cartoon maybe tried to return to the "both siblings are on the same level", but I don't recall her being very expressive), at best, in the Netflix series, she is more ("inner-emotionally") expressive.

[@JohnSmith-jh6ey]

A nostalgia critic video on something popular you know nothing about Or in your case…Tuesday

[@ahedjehad8514]

feels odd to know that Raul Julia played M.Bison in the Van Damme Street Fighter movie which came after these two Addam's family movies. (which makes sense considering that it was his final movie role before his passing). makes you wonder how he'd do the "like lightning" bit as Gomez..

[@peair2000]

Still anticipating when he reacts to the Twilight reviews.

[@christophermcbride2522]

The PG-13 rating didn't exist until 1984. Back then, some PG movies were borderline R. There was nudity, drug use, sex jokes, etc. "Airplane!" is a fun example. My brother-in-law didn't believe me when I told him that one of his favorite movies was rated PG and not R. Speaking of the ratings, there's a Nostalgia Critic episode you should watch. It's titled, "Does PG mean anything anymore?"

[@thedingdongsunshinefuture]

personally my favorite iteration is Addams Family Values, i think Wednesday’s lines are hilarious

[@spikejr3113jr]

6:37 nothing happened to them it’s just how their family is.

[@joshy9857]

I was actually once Uncle Fester in the musical

[@TnT_F0X]

8:28 you're talking over the fact that the cast talked together in private, then sent the creepy little girl to say it. Probably walked out of the shadows and scared them lol

[@Iejir_Isk]

Oh... If you haven't seen. Strangely, this is one of the healthiest movie/tv family dynamics

[@BlahBlahWoofWoof12]

The Addams Family showed me the world of being dark and Gothic, which is a world I live in to this day

[@DarkknightChris]

I was prepared that you haven't heard of the Wednesday show despite it being all being one of the most trending shows on Netflix in the past few years. Only to my surprise, you have heard of her new show. After not noticing the all the Wish-theme merch in your local stores, not knowing how mainstream Supergirl is, or never hearing Christmas Carol or Christmas Story. I'm surprised you have heard of it.

[@arthurwatson2555]

I personally enjoyed the recent animated films and think they are highly underrated *but we're not ready for that conversation*

[@averagegamecritic]

In the smokey vs mcgruff death battle they did mention the addams family being all about bad things. I remember your continuity 😂 There’s a fan theory Addams can only be killed by other people. They’re cursed. It’s why they do dangerous things and are fine.

[@madengineerkyouma]

I loved those movies as a kid

[@EvanAkaKevin]

Day 34 of asking for CaptainSauce reactions.

[@Ghost_R4cc00n]

It seems interesting that the moment of the Addams family movies seem to be a go to Halloween movie in my area in Movie nights 😄 as their movies are the best one to watch for Halloween. Except I haven’t seen the third one since the Original Actor of Gomez Addams from the first one and second one sadly passed away when the third one was coming out. It’s quite sad as he was an outstanding actor. 😢 So with the question to answer on why Morticia Addams having the light only on her eyes is a very nod to her being like a Vampiric character since in Vampire movies, you only can see the eyes only of them or maybe it’s just the focus point for cameras to focus on 😅

[@monsterhighandbarbiefan]

i love the addams family franchise lucky for you i know a ton about the addams family

[@funny9able]

I have the Adams Family Reunion on VHS

[@hollowbrinethehollowfiedsu6365]

There is also a Netflix show all about Wednesday Adams and it is pretty good

[@Gamerguy-ud1zo]

The most recent animated movies sad to say were obvious nostalgia bate cash grabs not to mention the infinite amount of merchandise they made to promote it like they went as far as to make lottery tickets to advertise it which I have never seen a movie do before.

[@lordadrianrichter3409]

I actually just watched this one a couple days ago

[@TnT_F0X]

Did you ever do the Austin Powers ones? Those are some fun movies. The Munsters are more my style, that show was more humor forward.

[@Chibi1331]

You should check out the video Fact Fiend did about how rich Gomez Addams is... it’s insane

[@jordanu6501]

I grew up watching this. And I turned out...fine.🤔

[@drakeware655]

Please react to Nostalgia Critic's review of Gordy if you wanna learn about Pig Power in the House 🤣

[@MrAnpu42]

Just accept it and fall into the Addams Family Rabbit Hole!

[@ChrissaTodd]

i think these movies are fine, i have a bias though doe more high pitched voice when it comes to fester Christopher Lloyd's voice did not work for me

[@twist_ending7545]

"How are they able to survive?" They're Addams'. They're just built different like that

[@Geekgalaxy869]

Many have theorized that the Addams have a curse that allows them to survive, and honestly it wouldn't be the strangest thing given that there are witches in the family.

[@BatmanFan76]

The Addams Family was pretty much the darkest family of the 90’s. That is until nowadays, they’re only known for the Wednesday Addams dance.

[@loyalist1326]

2:17 to be fair you don’t even know who the x-men are,who I’d say are just as popular

[@KnucklestheEcidna]

you should try to watch the movies

[@ericb9252]

I recommend his review of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon

[@taylorwatts9391]

U should check out his review of ‘Joshua and the Promised Land’ next time.

[@CGomm-le7gv]

Yes watch beetlejuice next

[@empirejeff]

The Munsters?

[@RedMageJoey]

Can we all recommend Kyle to watch the Nostalgia Critic's Spider-Month marathon? I mean, I know he hasn't seen The Amazing Spider-Man duology but he has seen the trilogy with Tobey Maguire. So.... Can it be next week's reaction?

[@empirejeff]

Princess Bride

[@ChrissaTodd]

the addams can survive this stuff is because they are cursed i think that's what i read. and it's harder for them to die

[@hermannmakuta3311]

I recommend Mad Max: Fury Road - Nostalgia Critic One of my favourite Episodes And this one doesnt even Spoil the Movie Because Fury Road Is a Masterpiece

[@hermannmakuta3311]

5:27 - the father is German?