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The Addams Family
    2019-10-23  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A fictional* household created by American cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938, The Addams Family has been repeatedly featured in TV series and movies.

In this new film, the 3-D-rendered characters do look much like Addams’ original drawings, if you sculpted those drawings into plastic dolls.

We meet Lurch as he’s being hit by a car. In the film’s origin-story preface*, we see the wedding of Gomez and Morticia Addams (voiced by Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron), in which the nuptials* revolve around an ancient ritual*: Bride and groom put a lime in a coconut and drink it all. Local townspeople don’t seem to like them. They show up with pitchforks and torches to chase off* the creepy newlyweds, who race into the night. While seeking safety, they hit Lurch with their car. They realize he’s an escapee from an abandoned mental hospital up on a hill — a place they decide to call home.

Thirteen years later, the Addamses have two children: a chubby pyromaniac* boy named Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard from “Stranger Things”) and his older sister Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz). Pugsley is hitting rite-of-passage* age. He’s supposed to perform a “saber mazurka,” a demonstration of his mastery of swordplay, and weird relatives from all over the world are coming to attend the bar mitzvah*-like event.

That’s a problem for the nearby town of Assimilation, a manufactured community run by TV celebrity Margaux Needler (Allison Janney). Needler has just built a development full of cookie-cutter* houses and needs to sell them quickly or go bankrupt. Somehow, she never realized that the haze-shrouded hill right outside town was home to neighbors who would totally destroy her town’s vibe*. When the squares and misfits finally meet, Needler must try to sell Morticia and Gomez on the kind of domestic makeover she does every week on TV.

Meanwhile, Wednesday has grown intrigued by the local junior high and its rituals in which girls team up to make other girls sad. She befriends Needler’s daughter Parker (Elsie Fisher) and decides to protect the unpopular kid from her mean classmates.

Instead of having fun with what a rebellious adolescence means in a household that’s all about nonconformity*, scriptwriter Matt Lieberman quickly returns to a predictable story. (SD-Agencies)

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