Tired of being run out of every town, Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia Addams (Charlize Theron) finally find the home of their dreams: an abandoned insane asylum in the marsh of New Jersey. For thirteen years, they are able to raise their children at peace until an overeager home improvement maven named Margeaux Needler (Alison Janney) decides the Addams are not picture-perfect enough to be part of the town of Assimilation. To complicate matters, Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz) and Parker Needler (Elsie Fisher) have become friends, both teenagers committed to rebelling against their repressive mothers, while Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard) is struggling with the Addams' rite of manhood: the saber mazurka.
This adaptation hews much closer to the 60s TV show than the 90s live action film in spirit, but the essential Addams-ness of it is just as true. It is aggressively wholesome, once again modeling an uxorious dynamic (I never get to use that word!) and cheerfully macabre trappings (Gomez's cufflinks are molars) to tell a story about the trap of protecting children too much and not allowing them the freedom to express who they are, even if that means *shudder* pink unicorn barrettes.
It's currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
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