{"id":31667,"date":"2020-12-26T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31667"},"modified":"2020-12-26T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:17:30","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/26\/belated-movie-reviews-630\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Addams Family<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2019) is another entry in the growing collection of films and TV series based on Charles Addams’ family of anti-society people. This version, an origins story, is animated and derives its artistic inspiration from Addams’ original cartoons<\/a> of the family – an impossibly thin Morticia, the squat, debonair Gomez, and on and on.<\/p>\n

So we quickly learn that Lurch is … well … that would be sayin’, as they say. But I do feel free to remark that, based on his entrance into the family, there may be something to be said for giving those who have been put away as mad a place in society. Give them a role, even as crazed as Lurch’s, and the frenzy’s energy may be absorbed by devotion to the role.<\/p>\n

But the story has twin centers: Pugsley’s rite of passage, a desperate affair of uncertain judging and physical strenuousness, a veritable microcosm of the family’s search for a place on the landscape, and the evil machinations of a local TV star and interior designer who is bent on, well, being evil.<\/p>\n

She’ll fit right in, won’t she? But only if Wednesday permits.<\/p>\n

There’s room to hate the art – I didn’t care for Uncle Fester, for example, and my Arts Editor felt Kitty needed to be redone – but the story rarely drags and acknowledges the realities of normal society only when it absolutely must.<\/p>\n

And who ever thought of a pink mansion for the Addams?<\/p>\n

It’s not quite compelling – but it’s fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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