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Don't torture yourself Gomez, that's my job.
I’m absolutely giddy with glee. Paramount has been doing a bang up job releasing a lot of their old catalog on the Paramount Presents line, but they also have continue to release more remastered 4K titles out there at the same time. Well we finally get the old 90s classic in 4K, AND it appears that Paramount included a remastered Blu-ray in the set as well! Something which they have occasionally left for buyers to get separately such as the case with Days of Thunder or Mission Impossible.
Comics to film adaptations are pretty much commonplace in today’s age, but back in the 1990s it was much less commonplace. Especially when you consider the comic at hand was first started back in 1938, and has become a cult classic to people everywhere. Charles Addam’s “Addams Family” was a wonderfully revered bit of newspaper comic art, but no one ever realized it would be as bit of a hit as it was on cinema some 60 years later. When Addams died in 1988 the only thing that he saw of his creation was the hit television show that ran during the 60s, but ironically the only reason the movie came to fruition was because of the catchy theme song that was still popular at the time. The powers that be decided that it was time for a revamping, having procured the classic stage actor Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston for the lead roles, and thus we get the film here before us, as the rest is history.
The Addams Family was actually director Barry Sonnenfeld’s first feature film (before he would go on to direct the Men in Black series as well Get Shorty and many others), and along with the writers of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands (you can see where the visual style came from) was faced with the difficult task of crafting something that paid homage to the funny papers of Charles Addams, as well as the TV show, but still making something completely their own. In that respect I think they succeeded magnificently, mostly due to the antics of Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston. They both just steel the show in every way, with Raul Julia hamming it up nearly as much as he does for the role of M. Bison in the Van Damme Street Fighter movie. Christina Ricci as young Wednesday Addams is a close tie for second though, rivaling Huston’s deadpan portrayal of Morticia.
Rated PG-13 for macabre humor
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Extras:

• THEATRICAL VERSION OF THE FILM
• NEW Introduction to "More Mamushka!" version by director Barry Sonnenfeld
• NEW Filmmaker Focus: Barry Sonnenfeld on The Addams Family
• Archival Featurette
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Technical Specifications:
Starring: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by: Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson (Screenplay), Charles Addams (Characters)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 HEVC
Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, English DVS, French DD 2.0
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French
Studio: Paramount
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 100 minutes
Blu-Ray Release November 23rd, 2021
Recommendation: Great Buy
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