The Addams Family 1991

Janet Maslin, New York Times: The film's aimlessness and repetitiveness eventually become draining. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: An extended collection of one-liners and not much more. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: They're creepy and they're predictable? Mysterious and rather tame? Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There are a lot of little smiles in The Addams Family, and many chuckles and grins, but they don't add up to much. Read more

Time Out: Ooky the Addamses may be, subversive they ain't; it plays like a paean to the nuclear family. Read more

Time Out: Ooky the Addamses may be, subversive they ain't; it plays like a paean to the nuclear family. Read more

Variety: Despite inspired casting and nifty visual trappings, the eagerly awaited Addams Family figures as a major disappointment. Read more

Joe Brown, Washington Post: An otherwise very funny scene featuring Thing amounts to an extended ad for Federal Express, and the rap beats from Hammer's new album boom from passing cars in several scenes -- nothing will date this movie faster. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: More than merely a sequel of the TV series, the film is a compendium of paterfamilias Charles Addams's macabre drawings, a resurrection of the cartoonist's body of work. For family friends, it would seem a viewing is de rigueur mortis. Read more