Review of Halloween with the New Addams Family

Time marches on. Nothing is ever as good as it was and a series like this is an impossibile thing to follow. As a child I loved the show and eventually read a paperback book that perhaps the series was based upon. I don't know. I know Gomez was so good at his part he never successfully played anything else. You want to be disappointed try that on. Morticia, PLEASE. Beautiful Morticia. Had she not exited early I suspect the same fate would have been hers. Everybody else were just exactly that. The others. Oddly enough I have watched and rewatched these old shows over the many years and somehow they hold up well. I never saw the halloween special from the original series until many, many years later. Even in reruns our TV stations would not broadcast these "hail satan specials" So it is I have never seen this attempt at reviving the impossibile. No doubt this was a failure in conception. Commercials every ten or fifteen minutes were planned around and may have actually helped in this adventure. Gomez and Morticia look as good as ever. In color Morticia has radiance unequalled. The rest of this mess was pretty tough to endure. As well as the simple stories work in the original series they completely flounder in this effort. No doubt the budget was insufficent for the task, why else would there be no film. It wasn't because of a lack of potential, that this failed to satisfy. Too many recreations on the big screen scream out that reality. The original series worked all too well. The interest continues ,anytime a properly funded well managed effort to continue this story. Despite the fact that this wasn't that it sure was nice to see them in color. As far as that newspaper cartoon went , It never really entertained me. I'll still read it if I see it though, That is how good the TV show was. Oh and Lurch was never green that was Munsters overlap. It came into being because people loved the Addams Family.