Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.
The 2019 animated Addams Family reboot is a competent but largely formulaic adaptation that fails to capture the gothic wit of its source material. The plot is predictable — a community-versus-outsiders conflict layered over a family reunion — offering little surprise. The voice cast (Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloé Grace Moretz) delivers serviceable work but the material doesn't challenge them. The animation style is deliberately angular and stylized to evoke Charles Addams' original cartoons, which is a commendable choice, but the execution feels flat and lacks the cinematic flair of top-tier animation studios. As a franchise property, novelty is limited — it retreads familiar Addams Family beats without a fresh perspective. The ending resolves conflicts in a tidy, unsurprising way. A watchable but unremarkable family film that squanders its eccentric IP.