Most of the voice actors take a shot at mimicking the performers in the 1990s Barry Sonnenfeld films, starring the irrepressible Raoul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci, which only pays off in Oscar Isaac’s amusing Latin lover version of Raoul Julia’s version of Gomez.īut if you’re pressed for something to do with children who love going to the movies, I have to say it’s funnier than “Abominable,” even if the animation (by the Vancouver Cinesite Studios) doesn’t have that Dreamworks polish or heart.Īnd who among us can resist that finger-snapping theme song, the one Tin Pan Alley veteran Vic Mizzy composed, so very long ago, for the black and white TV series that made “The Addams Family” the touchstone Gothic farce it remains to this day?
It’s got more than a hint of New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams’ look about it.
So Charlize Theron’s slinky turn as Morticia and Chloe Grace Moretz’s deadpan take on Wednesday don’t work without them on camera, trying to top Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci.Īnd the things an adult finds amusing in this latest big screen version of “The Addams Family” aren’t the ones the little kid audience it’s intended for will giggle over. MGM/UA and Vancouver’s Cinesite animation studio made the classic blunder of casting big names - TWO Oscar winners - instead of funny voices for their characters. The guys who made Seth Rogen’s “Sausage Party” directed the new animated “The Addams Family,” but there’s little of that anarchy here and (thankfully) none of the vulgarity.
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