An excerpt from my script review for The Addams Family which will be available 09/08/25:
3.) Quality of Characters
One of my favorite aspects of this reboot, not having seen much of the original show, is just how in love Gomez and Morticia are.
It’s this weird kind of thing, pain causing pleasure, but there’s no question they’re absolutely devoted to one another.
There’s a certain charming aspect to it.
This always reminded me of my love for the boss, but more subdued and with less torture. Although I realize we’ve both gotten older, she’s still the same twenty something I fell for all those years ago, and gets my heart pumping!
So I get it, and it’s refreshing to see a couple there’s absolutely no question they’ll be unfaithful to one another.
Like the above example of “getting right to it”, this is another instance of using our expectations against us.
We expect to see a couple with problems in a film. We expect the drama to come from those problems.
Here we get it in other ways, and Gomez’s devotion to his family actually becomes his undoing at the story’s dark moment.
Contrary to that, Gordon (Fester) has a weird relationship with his “mother” Abigail. Almost like a sexual one.
This was not charming to me.
You could have had him be the doting son without all the implied sexual tension and occasional moaning.
Lastly, it was fun to include all the odds and ends of the Addams Family, like a Cousin Itt cameo where he woos Tully’s wife.
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