Just saw the new Addams Family animated movie and was impressed! Who can resist a story of outsiders whose presence convinces the town to question their limited morality, thus enabling it
to become ever the wiser, the friendlier, and the more loving?! Truly I’ve watched these characters not evolve, but remain steadfast, as the technologies for film and television have grown and advanced beyond the scope of what was previously thought possible! I feel over the years I’ve lost my edge, and I was even discussing with Eric how much more slowly we are going down the stairs of the movie theater with each passing movie, and yet, much like in Hinton’s The Outsiders, I feel something stirred deep within me with every sporadic story of rogue families righting wrongs—and the world becoming a better place for it. There’s still something to that to me.
There is in every rebellious, apathetic teenager a Wednesday Addams, and within every chubby belligerent younger brother a Pugsley; a Morticia in every alternative-leaning mother; and a Gomez in every hopeless romantic committed husband. And on the outskirts of such people will always be a society not advanced enough to comprehend such anomalies as would question the establishment and take a bite out of it’s sadistic, rotting sandwiches. Until they are. And there are fewer rotting sandwiches, and less sadism (please do not teach your children to be bullies!). This modern romp with this television family of my childhood and others’ before it proves that creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky doesn’t mean “devoid of love” or “without purpose” or even altogether very different from you and me at all.
A confident A+ for the new Addams Family movie! Large popcorns for everyone.
