Rich? They own a house that would be legally condemned if the authorities were effective against them. That's not exactly "rich," in the American sense.
I have always loved the Addams family, and this isn’t really a spoiler, but one thing the new movie does right is showing how they got the mansion, it’s literally an asylum they found abandoned while fleeing persecution, and they just set up shop there. I’m all for homeless persecuted minorities staking their claim on unused property
That is something new, but the family is nonetheless wealthy. It's always been ambiguous as to where their wealth comes from, especially since Gomez and Morticia appear to not even have jobs. Not to say they can't be leftist icons for benefitting from ambiguous familial wealth, since they are quite friendly and generous with what they have. It's just more fun to tell a story with characters who live in a big house with nice things, like spooky stuffed bears and ancient swords.
@@donnylurch4207 oh yeah, it’s definitely something new. In the previous movies the house is shown to have been in the family for generations (Gomez and Fester had their own play room from when they were kids).
The Addams, perhaps more than anything, are genuinely happy with being alive. An interesting element of their happiness is that they embrace and celebrate things that more neurotic and fearful societies shun - death, decay, the fell seasons of the year; not just the fat seasons. Implicit in the Addams philosophy is an acceptance of the dark side of human nature, which they manage to direct and channel in perhaps a healthy way. They are of course, cartoony, and an Addams survives being stabbed through the chest with a butcher knife or blown through the roof by a pile of dynamite. It is this exaggerated immunity to darkness that illustrates the lesson they offer, though. In their insanity, they are exquisitely sane and in command of themselves. They demonstrate that people who try to live in a saccharine fiction about the world, to reduce their anxiety and avoid sad or scary things, must in reality force themselves to be quite mad in order to deny the existence of so much.
One of the other interesting things about the Addams family is that the relationship between Gomez and Morticia contrasts strongly with an era when humor was very much like "take my wife, please" jokes and even today when so many relationships on TV are two people that resent one another.
@JohnnyTheWolf To be fair, that one is the low-budget, direct-to-video bastard child of the two theatrical movies. I'd recommend checking those out! They're on Amazon Prime. I haven't seen Reunion, so I can't speak much on it, but I'm sure it's nowhere near as good DESPITE the inclusion of Tim Curry.
@JohnnyTheWolf Good god, I've been an Addam's Family (and Tim Curry) fanatic since I was in diapers and I had no idea that dreck existed. And I watched tons of terrible direct-to-video sequels to things! But, uh. So that thing you saw wasn't... really... the Addam's family. In a form anyone would really recognize, beyond the costumes. I'd encourage you to check out the 1991 movie first, then the '93 movie and some eps of the original TV show. Pretend the Reunion movie never existed, if you can. Nothing within it relates to what anyone, anywhere, is referencing when talking about the Addam's Family.
@JohnnyTheWolf tbh, most of the movies aren't that great. Also, if you look at the way they treat each other, trying to kill the mailman is probably their way of thanking him for his service.
One of my favorite things was that the relationship between Morticia and Gomez Addams is one of the longest standing examples of a wholesome BDSM relationship in media, and is way better than a lot of much more recent depictions.
I think my favorite part of Addams Family Values was Wednesday completely wrecking that ridiculous Thanksgiving play. Straight up one of the best scenes in anything Addams family-related. Also, I kind of love how you look like a floating head because your outfit matches the background. Extra spooky
Ok, hear me out: a new film in continuity with the early 90s films. We frame it around the very reason those films stopped despite their success - Gomez has died, and now the adult Addams children come home to celebrate their father. The whole thing is a love letter to Raul Julia. Elderly Fester can be there, but his physical comedy roles probably need to be reassigned given Christopher Lloyd's age - maybe adult Puggsley. Obviously the big draw will be Christina Ricci as adult Wednesday - we get Melissa Hunter (of youtube Adult Wednesday fame) as a writer for the film. Also Wednesday has a bubbly sunshine wife who the family adores and is right at home with them.
And here I was imagining a new live action reboot that seeks a bunch of new actors to do the characters justice without trying to live in the shadow of the old roles, but this is a rather interesting idea.
Oh man, I’m thinking about Christopher Lloyd playing an elder, wizened Fester, openly mourning his brother while also celebrating his life and perhaps showing a bit of jealousy that Gomez got to taste the sweet embrace of death before him. It’s beautiful.
The Addams family are a large portion of why I'm goth and why I've formed my goth identity on the idea of being death positive, accepting of the strange, and dedicated to assisting other oppressed people (not that I'm oppressed cuz I'm goth, lol, I'm also trans and Latinx).....I'm goth because I decided that if society was going to treat me as an outcast already, I was going to unabashedly be one, and be one very happily. The Addams family is a huge part of why I was able to see that as even being an option.
@@xCorvus7x Looking at the context of the comment I would probably say in this instance American refers strictly towards isolationism, Imperialisms, and probably several other negative ism's. However I get the feeling this is not what you mean by your question. So My more firm answer is simple. Context. Things are as American as context allows them to be that. One day American just might mean how you butter your toast.
@@CtrlAltSHIT I'm afraid this doesn't answer my question either. Context/insinuation is but a tool to convey an idea. Regardless of this, there should be some reasoning behind that idea, which is what I am asking for. I suppose it would be an argument about how American, i. e. US-American, has come to be what it is now.
@@xCorvus7x sorry I only saw this months latter, to respond in must say I don't understand what you are asking for. My intuition tells me you are looking for a defentive definition of american to which my reply is that's impossible to pin down. What is and isn't american is purely contextual to the time, place, and person its is being used by. Its definition is fluid. I gave you the definition is believe the above user is using but he has not responded one way or another.
I just saw the new Addam's Family movie last week. It was surprisingly good. Not, like, as good as the 90's movies, but much better than I expected going into it.
The Addams is ultimately comedy about outsiders that manages to avoid being either preachy or mean spirited. They never angst about the pressure to conform, in fact they barely notice that such pressure even exists.
as someone whose parents got them and their younger sibling a dvd with selected episodes of the tv series when they were children - it still holds up 100%
I watched the 2019 Addams Family animated feature, and I wasn't expecting it to be good. Spoilers: it was good, actually. It was geared to a young audience and simple in story, but overall it was... an Edward Scissorhands fixit story? But the charm was in the relationships and interactions of the titular family, of course.
That and I love the character designs. They did a great job with modeling them after the comics while adding a few new touches here and there (Wednesday's noose braids). Admittedly I am also biased because I like seeing Gomez being depicted as heavyset.
I got really close to someone at the beginning of 2020, and part of that was bonding over the Addams Family. They asked what fictional family I would be a part of if I could choose, I said the Addamses, and they swore at me because that was going to be their answer. Then we talked a lot about how we loved how inclusive, open and loving they are, how awesome Wednesday is, how good the musical was, and so on. This relationship did not last and I'm still at the point where I don't see where I go to move past that fact, but the Addams Family still gives me a warm feeling. All of which is to say I love this video before I've even finished watching it. Anyway, Addams Family Values was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and in retrospect probably pretty formative in that I had quite a crush on both Wednesday and Gomez. Good pick, mr Slime.
I love how part of the reason they were created is because creators grew tired of families that hate each other. They wanted a couple so in love that the rest of the family grows and is inspired by that love in an amazingly gothic aesthetic.
One element not discussed was that the Addams' were always fantastically rich. In the TV series, quite a few of the interactions with the 'norms' were people trying to ingratiate themselves to get something from them: money, land, etc. So there was always a certain regalness, a sense of foreign royalty that I associated with them.
I'm a huge fan of the Addams family and have been since I was like 5 or so. My wife and I got married on Halloween 5 years ago and were dressed as Gamez and Morticia officiated by my step dad dress as Uncle Fester. I love my wife so dearly and wouldn't want to die with anyone else.
Ya gotta respect the Addams Family. They've been making the exact same joke for over half a century and it still somehow continues to be extremely funny. That's a family that knows where it's towel is.
Ookie was a synonym for gross in the 70s, kind of. It was something that weirded you out, like putting your hands in a hole and feeling something crawling on it - that moment where you're not sure yet how scared you should be. Mind you, that might have been the thing we made up to use the fun word from the TV show, cause then our Google was making something up that sounded right. So not really that different... 😉🤪😎
This video perfectly sums up everything that I love about the Addams family. To my mind they are absolutely the most wholesome and loving family to ever appear on tv or film, not despite but because of how spooky and whacky they are. I wrote my college application essay about the Addams family and how much it means to me for these exact reasons. I also love that the house in the original was actually painted bright pink.
Made my girlfriend watch the first Addams Family film, over the weekend. I was explaining to her why I loved them so much, as well, especially the love between Gomez & Morticia, and their support of their children
I do wonder if The Munsters holds up as well. Aside from people sharing that wholesome clip of Herman Munster talking about tolerance, I don’t think it really gets anywhere near the amount of nostalgia that the Addams Family does. I guess maybe because it’s seen as a lighter, softer knock-off?
Although obviously the comic strip predates them both, The Munsters actually debuted on TV before The Addams Family did. And as the video points out, they weren't really collected together as a family (or given names) until the TV show. So with that in mind, the Addams Family actually kinda ripped off the Munsters.
@@danielludwig647 The Munster parents being perpetually disappointed by their niece, who is the one family member who is totally normal and does normal teenager girl things, is ALWAYS hilarious to me. "I'm off to cheerleader try-outs!" "...sigh... where did we go wrong...?"
I never took a deeper look on the serie. I've liked it because I can really relate to the character and their love for gothic things, but you just made me love the serie so much more! Thank you so much!!
I've not watched much of the series, but I have watched the two cinematic releases many times. The plots are kinda terrible, but the casting was spot on, and the acting was great. I particularly liked how a side character in the first film (the lawyer's wife) made a return in the second film, after having married into the family - a situation she's much happier with. I also love how the antagonist of the second film, being technically an Addams, gets a plot of her own in the family graveyard.
My friend Chris Hart played Hand in all the live action movies. Well his hand played hand. He also starred as other disembodied hands, Im not joking. He's also a magician.
Loved this vid! I had he same worries about the new Addams family cartoon but I think it really does maintain the spirit of the Addams and literally the whole plot is about you know it’s ok to be different even in your own family!
Also, I think that The Addams Family works better in Live Action. No disrespect to the original cartoonist who did a good job making some intriguing characters ripe for expansion, but I think live action performances help draw in the amazing character actors necessary to portray them, and allow them to contrast all the better against the "normies". In an animated adaptation, everyone is a cartoon character, especially if said animation is as heavily stylized as the original comics, and as a result it just doesn't hit the same.
I never took the time to consider the Addams family in this light- really glad you made this video. Thanks! And you look hot as Wednesday. Love, LGTBQ+ fan
I know I gravitated towards the Addams family as the cool outsider family, more from the first movie than the series, which I watched as a kid. Thank you for taking those feelings and helping to express them in a way that's important, perhaps even vital, for today's world. I think breaking down those walls of 'other'-ness is absolutely necessary for our survival in this nation.
I was watching the original 60s tv show recently and was blown away by how completely normal Wednesday is. Sure she does things in line with her family's values, but she's a very typical little girl in most regards. The 90s movies (and 90s tv series that no one talks about even though I was obsessed with it as a child) completely changed her characterization. Though I love the 90s Wednesdays, I find 60s Wednesday extremely charming in her normalcy in her otherwise kooky, spooky and ooky life.
I think that horror movies developed the concept of creepy emotionless child well after the original show, so they had a new archetype to exploit when the reboot came.
Slime, your channels just bring me so much joy. Thank you very much for your continued content and your endeavors to stat true to your values and integrity, they do NOT go unnoticed
The Adams Family credo legitimately give me chills every time I hear it. Genuinely an incredibly powerful rallying cry for those of us who have been Othered.
You should definitely give the recent cartoon a shot. It's definitely geared younger - I took my then-5 y/o daughter to it and she had a great time, but it is drawing from the same well.
We watched the new one together as a family and really loved it. The animation style blends the look of the old comics and a CGI approximation of stop motion puppets, and the story was very in line with the nonconformist feel of the first 2.
i LOVE the Addams family musical. The recent rewrite base it so much better, I’ve been so happy to be a part of it so many times. Not sure how much is nostalgia and how much is it actually being good? but it’s my favorite interpretation rivaling even the 90s movies
Naw, people overreact to everything (shocker), but it definitely is a different style from the films, TV show, or cartoon we may remember. It's polarizing, but I remember being quite excited by the trailer personally~
Nah, the Lorax movie sucked. The 2019 Addams Family was actually pretty good as far as kids' movies go, and pleasantly subversive. Y'know, by the standards of kids' movies.
@@ChocoboKillerKanyo I think JayExci's video was the most informative I've seen. Maybe I'll check it out sometime, but I don't doubt it could have been better and didn't do a great service to the brand. EDIt: It wasn't Jay Exci, but 24 Frames of Nick.
The Adams Family animated movie is totally worth a watch. The animation is gorgeous and the story is cute. They really honored the art style of the original comic and it’s fun.
Finally I found someone who loves the Addams Family as much as me. While I personally think the best (and only true) interpretation is the 60s show, which imo still holds up today, it's great to hear someone else express these things. Personally, I've always felt that they're basically the perfect family. I think everything the Addams are is something to aspire towards, and having a relationship similar to the one Gomez and Morticia share is probably my biggest goal in life.
Animated Addams 2 was shockingly good. Not in the sense that it was a great film, but that i was shocked at how much better it was than I thought it would be. Worth seeing.
I love this - really catches how I feel as an outsider and is trying to plan little traditions of my own when I find a new family. I don't think I've ever watched the entire Addams Family movie. I'll have to fix that. Any chances you'd cover What We Do in the Shadows? It's a comedy movie about vampires in the mid 2000s by Taika Waititi.
Good video, as usual. Recently rewatched the two 90s movies for the first time in a long while, and they're still great. I was surprised to learn that reception was mixed back in the day. Do you think you'll ever review them? This video felt like it ended too soon, I wanted to hear you ramble about The Addams Family and the movies more :(.
The Addams mean a lot to me as well. Gomez and Morticia going through life as a team, celebrating each other's strengths, and maintaining passion after many years of marriage...just warms my gothic little heart. Especially Morticia, she's a good mother, but not defined by motherhood, embraces her sexuality, and isn't shamed for it by her husband. She has her own hobbies separate from Gomez, like gardening. My whole life, I've wanted to be her.
Just watched the 1991 film for the first time a few weeks ago, and was caught off guard by how much I liked it. Definitely a good place to start if you're interest in the Addams's'ss
I really loved the new Adams Family movie. They really focused on all the points you listed. I loved the relationship between the kids and the parents. Its a shame no one gave that movie a chance it was really good and explained high concept in the way that children could understand them. Also, the design was based on the old comic and I loved the look.
Morticia has been my absolute idol and low key aspirational figure from the first time I saw the B&W show at age 4-5 and since before I can remember I've hope to one day meet a girl who feels the same way about Gomez so we can make a perfectly functional heteronormative couple.
I love the Addams Family so much. One of my favorite things is that one of the most subversive things about them is that unlike every other sitcom family, they actually support accept each other. PS: The Munsters fucking suck.
Honestly you put the Adam Family and a new perspective for me I never actually thought of them that way I just thought I was a spoofy silly show to watch around Halloween
My family had a subscription to _The New Yorker_ when I was younger, so Chas. Addams's cartoons were actually my first exposure to the family... I mean, I watched the TV show, too (in syndication), but it was my mother who pointed out to me that the show was based on the cartoon panel characters.
I'd love to see a comparison between the original Addams Family and The Munsters. Both 'monster/outcast family living in suburban America in the '60s', and started airing within a week of each other.
Gomez and Morticia are among the best relationship and parenting role models ever portrayed. And Wednesday is my hero. Though I do think it’s worth recognizing that dealing with the consequences of being different and reviled is eased somewhat by being filthy rich... But I do agree with others here that the Addamses are as likely to use their money, without hesitation or care for profit, for the benefit of the disenfranchised and powerless (or straight-up overthrowing the powerful) as for their own pleasure-maybe more likely. So there’s that! Plus, I want to live in their house so bad!!
My coworkers and I decided to be the Addams Family for Halloween so I rewatched the 90s movies and they really hold up, especially Addams Family Values. I'm super excited to be Gomez.
Last year for Halloween, I hosted an Addams Family movie night at my library. I think it's one of the best programs I've ever run there, in part because a couple of middle schoolers chose it as their first date, and it was so adorable. Also, I am very much up for a review video of the new Addams Family movie! I haven't heard anything terrible about it, and I know some kiddos who actually like it.
"Don't torture yourself, Gomez- that's my job."
Morticia Addams really said “eat the rich” despite them being rich themselves. Iconic
Cannibalism? In this family? Yes, please.
"Tish, that's praxis!!" 💋💋💋💋
Rich? They own a house that would be legally condemned if the authorities were effective against them. That's not exactly "rich," in the American sense.
@Persephone Muzingeaux but in the 90s movies, they are definitely hella rich. They have a vault full of gold.
@@TrismegistusMx In the original show, it's literally an abandoned museum (according to the song), so they just decided to live there :D
I have always loved the Addams family, and this isn’t really a spoiler, but one thing the new movie does right is showing how they got the mansion, it’s literally an asylum they found abandoned while fleeing persecution, and they just set up shop there. I’m all for homeless persecuted minorities staking their claim on unused property
Ooh, never thought about it that way. Thanks for the insight!
As someone who was also meh about the new Addams Family movie, I really like this interpretation.
That is something new, but the family is nonetheless wealthy. It's always been ambiguous as to where their wealth comes from, especially since Gomez and Morticia appear to not even have jobs. Not to say they can't be leftist icons for benefitting from ambiguous familial wealth, since they are quite friendly and generous with what they have. It's just more fun to tell a story with characters who live in a big house with nice things, like spooky stuffed bears and ancient swords.
@@donnylurch4207 oh yeah, it’s definitely something new. In the previous movies the house is shown to have been in the family for generations (Gomez and Fester had their own play room from when they were kids).
The Addams, perhaps more than anything, are genuinely happy with being alive. An interesting element of their happiness is that they embrace and celebrate things that more neurotic and fearful societies shun - death, decay, the fell seasons of the year; not just the fat seasons. Implicit in the Addams philosophy is an acceptance of the dark side of human nature, which they manage to direct and channel in perhaps a healthy way. They are of course, cartoony, and an Addams survives being stabbed through the chest with a butcher knife or blown through the roof by a pile of dynamite.
It is this exaggerated immunity to darkness that illustrates the lesson they offer, though. In their insanity, they are exquisitely sane and in command of themselves. They demonstrate that people who try to live in a saccharine fiction about the world, to reduce their anxiety and avoid sad or scary things, must in reality force themselves to be quite mad in order to deny the existence of so much.
This hit me in the feels a bit.
Who can truly live, that deny that they will die?
Dang, well said!
One of the other interesting things about the Addams family is that the relationship between Gomez and Morticia contrasts strongly with an era when humor was very much like "take my wife, please" jokes and even today when so many relationships on TV are two people that resent one another.
Imagine that! A married couple who love each other!
@@timeneses _what a novel concept!_
Not just that, but that has a lot of sexual chemistry!!! The horror!
I mean, the Connors both loved each other. And it was very clear they had a sex life.
All this despite -- horror of horrors -- being *fat!*
An inclusive family is an Addams Family. A thoughtful, egalitarian family is an Addams Family. A passionate, respectful family is an Addams Family.
@JohnnyTheWolf To be fair, that one is the low-budget, direct-to-video bastard child of the two theatrical movies. I'd recommend checking those out! They're on Amazon Prime. I haven't seen Reunion, so I can't speak much on it, but I'm sure it's nowhere near as good DESPITE the inclusion of Tim Curry.
@JohnnyTheWolf Good god, I've been an Addam's Family (and Tim Curry) fanatic since I was in diapers and I had no idea that dreck existed. And I watched tons of terrible direct-to-video sequels to things! But, uh. So that thing you saw wasn't... really... the Addam's family. In a form anyone would really recognize, beyond the costumes.
I'd encourage you to check out the 1991 movie first, then the '93 movie and some eps of the original TV show. Pretend the Reunion movie never existed, if you can. Nothing within it relates to what anyone, anywhere, is referencing when talking about the Addam's Family.
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@JohnnyTheWolf tbh, most of the movies aren't that great.
Also, if you look at the way they treat each other, trying to kill the mailman is probably their way of thanking him for his service.
One of my favorite things was that the relationship between Morticia and Gomez Addams is one of the longest standing examples of a wholesome BDSM relationship in media, and is way better than a lot of much more recent depictions.
i hadn't ever made that connection, thank you for that!❤
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I think my favorite part of Addams Family Values was Wednesday completely wrecking that ridiculous Thanksgiving play. Straight up one of the best scenes in anything Addams family-related.
Also, I kind of love how you look like a floating head because your outfit matches the background. Extra spooky
Is that a Wednesday Adam dress with kitty ears?! Respect.
nah, its a serial killer with kitty ears. They can look like anyone, but with kitty ears
@Persephone Muzingeaux Its the quote from the movie. Wednesday responds with the Serial killer line when asked what she is for Halloween.
@@canalsincontenido Oh no, now I'm more paranoid of people with cat ears!
"I'm a homicidal maniac" *looks from normies* "they look just like everybody else"
@Persephone Muzingeaux last I checked Matt accepts he/him pronouns but also they/them. unless I missed an update. so whichever is fine
Ah. Wednesday Cattams. I get it.
*furiously scribbles notes*
Ok, hear me out: a new film in continuity with the early 90s films. We frame it around the very reason those films stopped despite their success - Gomez has died, and now the adult Addams children come home to celebrate their father. The whole thing is a love letter to Raul Julia. Elderly Fester can be there, but his physical comedy roles probably need to be reassigned given Christopher Lloyd's age - maybe adult Puggsley. Obviously the big draw will be Christina Ricci as adult Wednesday - we get Melissa Hunter (of youtube Adult Wednesday fame) as a writer for the film. Also Wednesday has a bubbly sunshine wife who the family adores and is right at home with them.
Please Hollywood....
And here I was imagining a new live action reboot that seeks a bunch of new actors to do the characters justice without trying to live in the shadow of the old roles, but this is a rather interesting idea.
I'd love to see some M Bison references thrown in.
I'll say it again, Raúl Juliá is an international treasure.
Oh man, I’m thinking about Christopher Lloyd playing an elder, wizened Fester, openly mourning his brother while also celebrating his life and perhaps showing a bit of jealousy that Gomez got to taste the sweet embrace of death before him. It’s beautiful.
The Addams family are a large portion of why I'm goth and why I've formed my goth identity on the idea of being death positive, accepting of the strange, and dedicated to assisting other oppressed people (not that I'm oppressed cuz I'm goth, lol, I'm also trans and Latinx).....I'm goth because I decided that if society was going to treat me as an outcast already, I was going to unabashedly be one, and be one very happily. The Addams family is a huge part of why I was able to see that as even being an option.
Also, Raúl Juliá is an international treasure and must be immortalized as forever our Gomez and our Bison.
John Astin was amazing as Gomez as well IMO.
Being open, and honest, and just otherwise great people, they couldn't be more anti-american if they tried. Which is GREAT!
Anti-American?
How do you establish what is American?
@gothicman03
@@xCorvus7x Looking at the context of the comment I would probably say in this instance American refers strictly towards isolationism, Imperialisms, and probably several other negative ism's.
However I get the feeling this is not what you mean by your question.
So My more firm answer is simple. Context. Things are as American as context allows them to be that. One day American just might mean how you butter your toast.
@@CtrlAltSHIT
I'm afraid this doesn't answer my question either.
Context/insinuation is but a tool to convey an idea. Regardless of this, there should be some reasoning behind that idea, which is what I am asking for.
I suppose it would be an argument about how American, i. e. US-American, has come to be what it is now.
@@xCorvus7x sorry I only saw this months latter, to respond in must say I don't understand what you are asking for. My intuition tells me you are looking for a defentive definition of american to which my reply is that's impossible to pin down. What is and isn't american is purely contextual to the time, place, and person its is being used by. Its definition is fluid. I gave you the definition is believe the above user is using but he has not responded one way or another.
I just saw the new Addam's Family movie last week. It was surprisingly good. Not, like, as good as the 90's movies, but much better than I expected going into it.
The Addams is ultimately comedy about outsiders that manages to avoid being either preachy or mean spirited. They never angst about the pressure to conform, in fact they barely notice that such pressure even exists.
as someone whose parents got them and their younger sibling a dvd with selected episodes of the tv series when they were children - it still holds up 100%
I watched the 2019 Addams Family animated feature, and I wasn't expecting it to be good. Spoilers: it was good, actually. It was geared to a young audience and simple in story, but overall it was... an Edward Scissorhands fixit story? But the charm was in the relationships and interactions of the titular family, of course.
That and I love the character designs. They did a great job with modeling them after the comics while adding a few new touches here and there (Wednesday's noose braids). Admittedly I am also biased because I like seeing Gomez being depicted as heavyset.
Wait wait wait
You're telling me the Addams family motto is a fancy version of "eat the rich"? Because that's great
I got really close to someone at the beginning of 2020, and part of that was bonding over the Addams Family. They asked what fictional family I would be a part of if I could choose, I said the Addamses, and they swore at me because that was going to be their answer. Then we talked a lot about how we loved how inclusive, open and loving they are, how awesome Wednesday is, how good the musical was, and so on. This relationship did not last and I'm still at the point where I don't see where I go to move past that fact, but the Addams Family still gives me a warm feeling. All of which is to say I love this video before I've even finished watching it.
Anyway, Addams Family Values was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and in retrospect probably pretty formative in that I had quite a crush on both Wednesday and Gomez. Good pick, mr Slime.
I love how part of the reason they were created is because creators grew tired of families that hate each other. They wanted a couple so in love that the rest of the family grows and is inspired by that love in an amazingly gothic aesthetic.
One element not discussed was that the Addams' were always fantastically rich. In the TV series, quite a few of the interactions with the 'norms' were people trying to ingratiate themselves to get something from them: money, land, etc.
So there was always a certain regalness, a sense of foreign royalty that I associated with them.
A working class version of The Addams Family would be hilarious.
Oh I'd be into that.
I'm a huge fan of the Addams family and have been since I was like 5 or so. My wife and I got married on Halloween 5 years ago and were dressed as Gamez and Morticia officiated by my step dad dress as Uncle Fester. I love my wife so dearly and wouldn't want to die with anyone else.
"...but Debbie... pastels?"... Both movies are on my dessert island list. Great review!
The Hilarious House of Dr. Frightenstein? Someone's Canadian is showing.
GRONK!
Ya gotta respect the Addams Family. They've been making the exact same joke for over half a century and it still somehow continues to be extremely funny. That's a family that knows where it's towel is.
They're creepy and they're kooky, they're hoopy and they're froody...
:) I like it
I've always just accepted "ookie" as a playful mispronunciation as "okay", as in "they're all together pretty alright"
Huh. I always thought was a synonym for 'gross.' I like your explanation better.
If anything I think it might be best interpreted as a pun that means both.
yeah I always assumed it was a babytalk version of "icky", this is a cool interpretation
Ookie was a synonym for gross in the 70s, kind of. It was something that weirded you out, like putting your hands in a hole and feeling something crawling on it - that moment where you're not sure yet how scared you should be. Mind you, that might have been the thing we made up to use the fun word from the TV show, cause then our Google was making something up that sounded right. So not really that different... 😉🤪😎
Thanks, Comrade Matt. In this video you've put into words something that I've felt for 20+ years, but could never articulate.
This video perfectly sums up everything that I love about the Addams family. To my mind they are absolutely the most wholesome and loving family to ever appear on tv or film, not despite but because of how spooky and whacky they are. I wrote my college application essay about the Addams family and how much it means to me for these exact reasons. I also love that the house in the original was actually painted bright pink.
Made my girlfriend watch the first Addams Family film, over the weekend. I was explaining to her why I loved them so much, as well, especially the love between Gomez & Morticia, and their support of their children
"They definitely do it in a sex way ," followed immediately by a Disney ad, is freaking killing me.
I do wonder if The Munsters holds up as well. Aside from people sharing that wholesome clip of Herman Munster talking about tolerance, I don’t think it really gets anywhere near the amount of nostalgia that the Addams Family does. I guess maybe because it’s seen as a lighter, softer knock-off?
Although obviously the comic strip predates them both, The Munsters actually debuted on TV before The Addams Family did. And as the video points out, they weren't really collected together as a family (or given names) until the TV show. So with that in mind, the Addams Family actually kinda ripped off the Munsters.
@@BrowncoatFairy huh, interesting! I guess the Addams Family kind of displaced the Munsters in the modern memory.
@@danielludwig647 The Munster parents being perpetually disappointed by their niece, who is the one family member who is totally normal and does normal teenager girl things, is ALWAYS hilarious to me.
"I'm off to cheerleader try-outs!"
"...sigh... where did we go wrong...?"
I never took a deeper look on the serie. I've liked it because I can really relate to the character and their love for gothic things, but you just made me love the serie so much more! Thank you so much!!
I've not watched much of the series, but I have watched the two cinematic releases many times. The plots are kinda terrible, but the casting was spot on, and the acting was great. I particularly liked how a side character in the first film (the lawyer's wife) made a return in the second film, after having married into the family - a situation she's much happier with. I also love how the antagonist of the second film, being technically an Addams, gets a plot of her own in the family graveyard.
Your Wednesday outfit is amazing. 10/10.
My friend Chris Hart played Hand in all the live action movies. Well his hand played hand. He also starred as other disembodied hands, Im not joking. He's also a magician.
Loved this vid! I had he same worries about the new Addams family cartoon but I think it really does maintain the spirit of the Addams and literally the whole plot is about you know it’s ok to be different even in your own family!
Love the spookabatory goings on. Truly ookie.
Also, I think that The Addams Family works better in Live Action. No disrespect to the original cartoonist who did a good job making some intriguing characters ripe for expansion, but I think live action performances help draw in the amazing character actors necessary to portray them, and allow them to contrast all the better against the "normies". In an animated adaptation, everyone is a cartoon character, especially if said animation is as heavily stylized as the original comics, and as a result it just doesn't hit the same.
I love how they're such a loving family
Scaredy-Matt is too adorable for words 🥰
I love the Adams family... thanks for this video Matt!
Jokes on you Wednesday - I’m watching this on Tuesday.
Thanks for making this one! I was literally trying to explain to my wife why I love and appreciate The Addams Family so much yesterday.
I never took the time to consider the Addams family in this light- really glad you made this video. Thanks! And you look hot as Wednesday. Love, LGTBQ+ fan
As the "weird one" in my family and the other in culture I loved them so much and you hit the nail on the head as to why
Not sure what to say other than love everything you've mentioned about them. Think I need to rewatch.
I know I gravitated towards the Addams family as the cool outsider family, more from the first movie than the series, which I watched as a kid. Thank you for taking those feelings and helping to express them in a way that's important, perhaps even vital, for today's world. I think breaking down those walls of 'other'-ness is absolutely necessary for our survival in this nation.
Honestly Mortica and Gomez Addams are relationship goals.
I was watching the original 60s tv show recently and was blown away by how completely normal Wednesday is. Sure she does things in line with her family's values, but she's a very typical little girl in most regards. The 90s movies (and 90s tv series that no one talks about even though I was obsessed with it as a child) completely changed her characterization. Though I love the 90s Wednesdays, I find 60s Wednesday extremely charming in her normalcy in her otherwise kooky, spooky and ooky life.
I think that horror movies developed the concept of creepy emotionless child well after the original show, so they had a new archetype to exploit when the reboot came.
Slime, your channels just bring me so much joy. Thank you very much for your continued content and your endeavors to stat true to your values and integrity, they do NOT go unnoticed
"By the power of the internet"
The Adams Family credo legitimately give me chills every time I hear it. Genuinely an incredibly powerful rallying cry for those of us who have been Othered.
You should definitely give the recent cartoon a shot. It's definitely geared younger - I took my then-5 y/o daughter to it and she had a great time, but it is drawing from the same well.
We watched the new one together as a family and really loved it. The animation style blends the look of the old comics and a CGI approximation of stop motion puppets, and the story was very in line with the nonconformist feel of the first 2.
i LOVE the Addams family musical. The recent rewrite base it so much better, I’ve been so happy to be a part of it so many times. Not sure how much is nostalgia and how much is it actually being good? but it’s my favorite interpretation rivaling even the 90s movies
I haven't seen the 2019 movie, and it isn't by Illumination, but every take I've heard makes it sound like the Addamses got Loraxed.
Naw, people overreact to everything (shocker), but it definitely is a different style from the films, TV show, or cartoon we may remember. It's polarizing, but I remember being quite excited by the trailer personally~
Nah, the Lorax movie sucked. The 2019 Addams Family was actually pretty good as far as kids' movies go, and pleasantly subversive. Y'know, by the standards of kids' movies.
@@ChocoboKillerKanyo I think JayExci's video was the most informative I've seen. Maybe I'll check it out sometime, but I don't doubt it could have been better and didn't do a great service to the brand.
EDIt: It wasn't Jay Exci, but 24 Frames of Nick.
Bwahaha! The "spooky costs fallacy." Love your videos Scaredy Matt Slime. Keep up the wonderful work.
The Adams Family animated movie is totally worth a watch. The animation is gorgeous and the story is cute. They really honored the art style of the original comic and it’s fun.
Finally I found someone who loves the Addams Family as much as me.
While I personally think the best (and only true) interpretation is the 60s show, which imo still holds up today, it's great to hear someone else express these things.
Personally, I've always felt that they're basically the perfect family. I think everything the Addams are is something to aspire towards, and having a relationship similar to the one Gomez and Morticia share is probably my biggest goal in life.
Animated Addams 2 was shockingly good. Not in the sense that it was a great film, but that i was shocked at how much better it was than I thought it would be. Worth seeing.
I love this - really catches how I feel as an outsider and is trying to plan little traditions of my own when I find a new family. I don't think I've ever watched the entire Addams Family movie. I'll have to fix that.
Any chances you'd cover What We Do in the Shadows? It's a comedy movie about vampires in the mid 2000s by Taika Waititi.
Good video, as usual. Recently rewatched the two 90s movies for the first time in a long while, and they're still great. I was surprised to learn that reception was mixed back in the day. Do you think you'll ever review them? This video felt like it ended too soon, I wanted to hear you ramble about The Addams Family and the movies more :(.
I didn't even know there was an Addams Family movie in 2019
I used to watch the og B&W show on TV land, it's actually the best version
Fun fact the house was pink
I don't have much to add, this was a brilliant analysis. I mean, you rocked that dress also :D
The Addams mean a lot to me as well. Gomez and Morticia going through life as a team, celebrating each other's strengths, and maintaining passion after many years of marriage...just warms my gothic little heart. Especially Morticia, she's a good mother, but not defined by motherhood, embraces her sexuality, and isn't shamed for it by her husband. She has her own hobbies separate from Gomez, like gardening. My whole life, I've wanted to be her.
Great video from a youtuber I admire. I remember getting the Addams Family (1991) movie on vhs from McDonalds (no joke). Thanks for making his one.
Just watched the 1991 film for the first time a few weeks ago, and was caught off guard by how much I liked it. Definitely a good place to start if you're interest in the Addams's'ss
Great video!
I'd love to see what you think of the 2019 movie. It IS pretty much what you said, though... wasted potential.
You're adorable. This is what I needed today. Thank you.
I am absolutely LIVING for Matt in a Wednesday Addams dress. Fabulous.
I really loved the new Adams Family movie. They really focused on all the points you listed. I loved the relationship between the kids and the parents. Its a shame no one gave that movie a chance it was really good and explained high concept in the way that children could understand them. Also, the design was based on the old comic and I loved the look.
Happy Spookabation, everyone!
Blazes are the the perfect mix of fierce and goofy.
Morticia has been my absolute idol and low key aspirational figure from the first time I saw the B&W show at age 4-5 and since before I can remember I've hope to one day meet a girl who feels the same way about Gomez so we can make a perfectly functional heteronormative couple.
I love the Addams Family so much. One of my favorite things is that one of the most subversive things about them is that unlike every other sitcom family, they actually support accept each other.
PS: The Munsters fucking suck.
they have always been my ideal of a supportive and loving family.
The dress! So cute! Really enjoyed this video, thanks.
The best old money weirdos you could hope for.
My takeaway from this is that my wardrobe sorely lacks a Wednesday Addams dress.
Honestly you put the Adam Family and a new perspective for me I never actually thought of them that way I just thought I was a spoofy silly show to watch around Halloween
My family had a subscription to _The New Yorker_ when I was younger, so Chas. Addams's cartoons were actually my first exposure to the family... I mean, I watched the TV show, too (in syndication), but it was my mother who pointed out to me that the show was based on the cartoon panel characters.
Seeing that close-up of your skelly bro there let's me know that I just drew my last project wrong, uups.
I'd love to see a comparison between the original Addams Family and The Munsters. Both 'monster/outcast family living in suburban America in the '60s', and started airing within a week of each other.
This video feels like eating some comforting tasty soup in the kitchen of a loved one
Gomez and Morticia are among the best relationship and parenting role models ever portrayed. And Wednesday is my hero.
Though I do think it’s worth recognizing that dealing with the consequences of being different and reviled is eased somewhat by being filthy rich... But I do agree with others here that the Addamses are as likely to use their money, without hesitation or care for profit, for the benefit of the disenfranchised and powerless (or straight-up overthrowing the powerful) as for their own pleasure-maybe more likely. So there’s that!
Plus, I want to live in their house so bad!!
The Addams Family is the best example of a loving and great family.
YESSSSS THIS DRESSSS!
I really hope you wear this dress again Mildred, it's so cute 🥺
My coworkers and I decided to be the Addams Family for Halloween so I rewatched the 90s movies and they really hold up, especially Addams Family Values. I'm super excited to be Gomez.
Scaredy Cats slowly but surely slipping into Thought Slime mode. No complaint here.
I think Matt forgets which channel they're on sometimes. It's okay, I'm here for it.
oh gosh this fit, you look so supremely adorable! kitty slime forever
Last year for Halloween, I hosted an Addams Family movie night at my library. I think it's one of the best programs I've ever run there, in part because a couple of middle schoolers chose it as their first date, and it was so adorable.
Also, I am very much up for a review video of the new Addams Family movie! I haven't heard anything terrible about it, and I know some kiddos who actually like it.
ACK! You look so cute in that outfit!
As it so turns out, this look is foreshadowing
Excellent. Brought a tear to my eye. I loved this.
Thank you for validating my love of the Addams Family. 🖤
I rewatched the first movie a few weeks ago, I love them so much