It has the look and feel of the classic 60s television show and the original cartoon strip, but it’s bigger, funnier, and far more irreverent than that show could ever be given the broadcast constraints of the time period. Watching him in interviews, Sonnenfeld’s natural sardonic wry sense of humor was perfect for this big-screen iteration of everyone’s favorite ghoulishly funny family. After a terrific stint as the Coen Brothers’ go-to cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld made a wise first choice to crack into directing. It was hilarious to me then and it’s actually a funnier movie now that I’m all grown up. I loved The Addams Family when I saw it *gasp* 30 years ago in the theater when I was all of nine years old. Possibly even smells like him, but the family has their doubts. But is it really Uncle Fester? It looks like him.
During their latest gathering - Fester returns apparently having been lost in the Bermuda Triangle. After a horrible fight, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) Addams with their children Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), their butler Lurch (Carel Struycken), and their able-bodied disembodied hand Thing hold an annual seance to bring back their long-missing Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd).
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