Unpalatable computer animated reboot of the lightly subversive Baby Boomer ‘60s sit-com. Though fondly remembered (largely for its cast), the tv show really hasn’t aged well, but it did get paperback collections of the wonderful Chas. Addams New Yorker originals reprinted and they haven’t aged at all. Alas, this iteration, even more than the anodyne live-action ADDAMS films from the’90s, offers nothing but rapacious commercial consideration, nearly as bad as recent attempts to exploit DR. SEUSS intellectual property; needless, charmless feature-length abominations in a race against copyright expiration. This one tries an origin story as prologue (character relationships, marriage, spooky gothic house), before the main action lays on de rigeur ‘Be Yourself’ nostrums as a one-size-fits-all moral. Lessons in community & family acceptance noisy to hear, tiresome to follow, hideous to look at. Quite the comedown for animators Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon whose shiny, plastic æsthetic proved far better suited to the real antiestablishmentarianism of Seth Rogen’s SAUSAGE PARTY/’16. (https://maksquibs.blogspot.com/2016/12/sausage-party-2016.html) There, the physically unappetizing look served as backup commentary. Here, it’s merely unappetizing.
SCREWY THOUGHT OF THE DAY/DOUBLE-BILL/LINK: The Addamses keep getting Tim Burton manqué when the director of functional dysfunctionality they deserve (and don’t hold your breath) is Japanese master (Cannes Palme D’Or winner) Hirokazu Kore-eda. https://maksquibs.blogspot.com/search?q=kore-eda
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