The Addams Family Film Universe Thread
 

Here we go with film universe thread #1! Note: this is about the Addams Family movies ONLY. Nothing else.

>rank the films (if you've seen them all)
>discuss which ones are your favorites
>discuss what you would like to see in future installments, if any happen to take place

I have in fact seen all of these and this is my ranking:

5. Addams Family Reunion
4. The Addams Family 2 (2021)
3. The Addams Family (2019)
2. Addams Family Values
1. The Addams Family (1991)

The Addams family movies from the 90s are unbeatable dark comedies, that level of humor and casting will be hard to ever get right again. Second is almost as solid as the first

The CG Addams Family reboot movies are decent yet generic CG kids movies. They kinda came and went because of the pandemic. Here you start to realize all the movies are usually very focused on Wednesday, even the 90s ones, but especially these two. The first one is an alright origin movie, second one is far more forgettable even if it pays homage to the first addams family cartoon.

The addams family reunion movie is a pilot to the New Addams Family Saban tv show. It's overheated since it's following up on the Hollywood films and this is a low budget direct to video movie being sold as a sequel to those. Luckily they were able to fix things for the actual New Addams Family show that came out of. It's still aimed at a younger audience (which I was when it aired) and I loved it, I think it holds up even if leans more towards quirky humor than dark.

The links have my full thoughts on them but my ranking would be something like: 1991 > Values > 2019 > Reunion > 2

I still need to rewatch the 90s cartoon which I loved as a kid and the black and white show one of these days.

Addams Family 1 is great, of course. Addams Family 2 wasn't as good but it definitely had its moments and who can forget the Indians scene with Wednesday. Never seen any others.

I enjoyed Wednesday season 1. But it sounds like the biggest thing I enjoyed about it -- Wednesday coming out of her shell a little bit and dating -- won't be in season 2 because they're letting Jenna Ortega basically run the writer's room and she didn't like that stuff at all.