Is the new Addam's Family movie ok?

     I have explained before about my likeness for the Addams family clan. Coming from a comic, to a tv show to many, many movies some good and some god awful. I have explained which one was my favorite and which ones despise me. 

    Then again, watching the 2019 version of the Addams Family recently, I came to ask myself....is it just ok?

   I've talked about how much I enjoyed Addams Family Values that was created back when I was only eight, maybe nine years old, and it's celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Raul Julia will always be my Gomez; God rest his soul. Anjelica Houston, although doing alright for herself...will always be Morticia to me. And you know how the rest goes on. 

  So, is the 2019 version better than this one? Not by a long shot.

   It's a typical Addams Family movie where they move into a new neighborhood and stay hidden from everyone. The voice acting is hit and miss. The voice actress from the kids is good, but for Gomez and Morticia.... I love Oscar Isaac, don't get me wrong, but I feel Raul Julia was the better Gomez. 

    This movie, I feel, is meant for kids and preteens. But let's talk about it.

    I believe every character in this movie has a focus, but Wednesday's is stronger. Tired of being cooped up, she eventually meets a girl named Parker. Her mother, voiced by amazing Alison Janey, designs and fixes houses in her neighborhood.

  Parker's mother, Margeaux, feels that it's best to destroy the Addam's family home so the whole town can be perfect. Her daughter, Parker, is an outsider and gets picked on by the perfect school bully. In other tropes you would see in junior high school settings.

   Wednesday makes Parker's life lively and they even switch places (ok they don't) but Parker turns Goth while Wednesday starts wearing pink which doesn't please Morticia at all.

     Pugsley has to go through an Addams Family tradition that involves becoming a man. I don't really pay attention to any of his scenes, but he does manage to save everybody by the end of the movie when Margeaux decides to take matters into her own hands.

   Another failure of this movie that I liked more in the 90's version is Uncle Fester. He's cartoony. Ok it is a cartoon movie, but the movie makes his character less dimensional than Christopher Lloyd's portrayal in the 91/93 version.

       Here's something interesting for this movie. In the 91/93 version, the hairy Cousin Itt is portrayed by an actor who was a villain in the Children of the Corn movie. Here, Snoop Dogg voices him. I don't hate Snoop Dogg but...really. I mean his scenes are short, but they play some of his rap music int he backgrounds whenever he is featured.

    Going with the original 91/93 version. 

       This movie wasn't horrible. I did enjoy the scenes with Wednesday in it. Having Alison Janey portray a mother who will go to great lengths to destroy the Addams Family home and even put cameras in other homes of the citizens makes her become a stalker, but at least she doesn't die at the end.

    I think of Margeaux as the want to be Joan Cusack character Debbie from Addams Family Values, just light on the homicidal maniac who kills to make her more...threatening to demolish homes.

    I think I love the Addams Family values more than I would the 2019 version, but it is an upgrade to the sequel they had afterwards which bombed in theaters. So... I'll put somewhere in the middle as an Addams Family movie that is enjoyable, but not the best. I'll give it a 6 or 5 out of 10 stars. More worth to have your kids enjoy that one than the 1993 version I enjoyed when I was a kid.

      Anjelica Houston and the late Raul Julia will always be my Morticia and Gomez Addams (not forgetting John Astin of course from the tv show) Sorry Charize Theron and Oscar Issac, you didn't make the cut.