Amazon.com Essentials:
Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black)
brings his distinctly cartoonish sensibility to this feature film
version of the old Charles Addams comic strip. Anjelica Huston was
born to play Morticia Addams, matriarch of the ghoulish Addams clan,
while the late Raul Julia is a very agreeable, lusty Gomez. But it's
Christina Ricci who arguably steals the show as their stone-faced
daughter, Wednesday. As is often the problem with adaptations of
comics or television shows, somehow an original story has to be
implemented that doesn't clutter things up. But clutter is an issue
here as the script gets tangled on a lame plot concerning efforts to
steal the Addams' house and fortune. Still, it's fun to see an ideal
cast reanimate an old favorite. --Tom Keogh
