![]() Sure, the Addamses live in a creepy, shadowy mansion, and yes, Wednesday and Uncle Fester gleefully like to blow stuff up whenever they get the chance, but the show leans too heavily on the family's interactions with the outside world and its suffocating normalcy. but the people who made it focused so hard on making it squeaky clean that they lost the spirit of what makes the Addams Family special. ![]() This early '90s animated cash-in on the popular live-action movies aired on ABC Saturday mornings, so it's obviously geared toward children. The only true innovation of The New Addams Family is how it took a cue from the early 1990s Addams Family movies - or perhaps was just aware of its child and tween target audience - and gave much more screentime to Wednesday and Pugsley Addams than the '60s show ever did. At least they had the good sense to bring in original Gomez John Astin as occasional character Grandpapa Addams, but his presence just reminded viewers of the greatness that once was. It plays like an eerie (but not in a good "Addams" way) remake of its predecessor, with many of the actors not so much interpreting their characters but imitating their counterparts from the 1964-'66 series. A Canadian production which aired the Fox Family Channel in the U.S., The New Addams Family inadvertently gave away its premise in its title: It's the same old Addams Family as presented by the 1960s The Addams Family sitcom it's just. ![]() Nothing about any Addams Family property made it unfriendly to kids (except for kids spooked out by just a general sense of the macabre), so there doesn't seem to be much of a point to The New Addams Family.
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