History YMMV / TheMunsters

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A FunnyForeigner family with physical appearances, cooking, hobbies, and overall culture vastly differ from the American suburbs they've moved to and face prejudice as a result. Note that this show was also a response to the then-ongoing Civil Rights movement.
** Herman accidentally buys a stolen car and is jailed instead of the real thief. Think about it- an ethnic minority is profiled, wrongly imprisoned, and his family members who resemble him can't get justice, but the officer working in the building agrees to speed up the process once he sees Marilyn, the white-passing relative. The cops were so focused on the man who looked different that they almost let the true criminal get away with it. It's a very light depiction of a serious issue going on today with racial minorities in the West, particularly the USA.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While overall extremely fine for children to watch, there's quite a few instances of alcohol (or [[DrunkOnMilk Shirley Temple-induced drunkenness]]) depicted for a family film.
* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Herman and Lily's performances by Jeff Daniel Phillips and Sheri Moon Zombie, respectively, have been criticized for being jarringly distant from their iconic originating portrayals by Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo and for lacking chemistry with each other as characters. Their broad, ungrounded portrayals and lack of resemblance to the classic characters in vocal delivery and behavior stands out even more against Daniel Roebuck as the Count, who does a pretty pitch-perfect revival of Al Lewis's character and portrays more dimension than Phillips and Zombie. Since Phillips and Zombie are frequent collaborators with Rob Zombie (and Sheri Moon is his wife), their weak casting may be a negative consequence of the ProductionPosse.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Herman and Lily's performances by Jeff Daniel Philips and Sheri Moon Zombie, respectively, have been criticized for being jarringly distant from their iconic originating portrayals by Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo and for lacking chemistry with each others as characters. Their less grounded portrayals and lack of resemblance to the classic characters in vocal delivery and behavior stands out even more against Daniel Roebuck as the Count, who does a pretty pitch-perfect revival of Al Lewis's character.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While overall extremely fine for children to watch, there's quite a few instances of alcohol (or [[DrunkOnMilk Shirley Temple-induced drunkenness]]) depicted for a family film.

* AcceptableTargets: Herman once tells Grandpa, "That's no way for a [[TakeThat respectable Republican]] to act!"

* ValuesResonance: Herman's speech from "Eddie's Nickname" made the rounds on social media in 2020 during that year's anti-racism demonstrations, showing that his words in 1965 still resonated with a 21st Century audience.
-->'''Herman:''' The lesson I want you to learn, is it doesn't matter what you look like. You could be tall or short, or fat or thin, ugly, or handsome -- like your father -- or you can be black or yellow or white, it doesn't matter. What ''does'' matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character.

** Count Orlok of the 2022 remake. His love for his rats makes him come off like a cat lady, and his attempt to woo Lily with the "Disco Vampire" dance, which unfortunately does not work.

* {{Adorkable}} Many fans found the movie to be this more than truly bad, from the dad jokes to seeing how sweet and goody Herman and Lily are in their romance.

* HilariousInHindsight: It's unclear if the Munsters' son is a werewolf, vampire, or hybrid of the two, but either way, him having the name Edward might have been innocuous in the 1960s but [[Literature/{{Twilight}} works especially well in the 21st century]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In "Herman the Rookie" Leo Durocher says about Herman "I don't know whether to sign him with the Dodgers or send him to Vietnam."

* CreatorBacklash: Two different cases: People who enjoyed the old show and were furious to see a remake regardless of how good or bad it would turn out because they thought he was insulting the original, and fans of Mr. Zombie himself who were angry he made a PG film. [[FanDumb Note however]] that Rob is a massive fanboy of the show and worked hard to pay homage to it, as well as how the Munsters was a ''family show'' that was never going to get an R rating like his other work.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Zeuss and Rob Zombie- the latter of whom has already made a lot of his own bangers in his musical career- made a pretty catchy soundtrack with a few bangers for Halloween parties.

* FandomRivalry: With the more popular ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' due to their similar premises and releases.

* {{Narm}}: The criticism for the movie really comes down to this. A lot of people were expecting a darker, grittier remake as many are made to be now.
** NarmCharm: New fans and old alike found a lot to enjoy about the mega-campiness, though.

* HamAndCheese: It ''is'' a Romb Zombie film, after all.

* AwesomeMusic: Zeuss and Rob Zombie- the latter of whom has already made a lot of his own bangers in his musical career- made a pretty catchy soundtrack with a few bangers for Halloween parties.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Daniel Roebuck, who gives 100% playing Grandpa.

** Zombo is pretty popular, despite being a one-time side character on the show (and a phoney.) The merchandise of him certainly does not hurt.

* NewerThanTheyThink: Some Addams Family fans accuse the Munsters of ripping off the Addams, notably because the Addams Family are based on a comic series made in the 1930s, and because of the shows' similar concepts. However, in addition to premiering the ''same week'' (and thus, giving the Munsters' writers no time to copy anything), the Universal monster franchise that they're based on came ''before'' the comics were published.

* NewerThanTheyThink: Some fans of the other spooky-family show accuse the Munsters of ripping off the Addams, notably because the Addams Family are based on a comic series made in the 1930s, and because of the shows' similar concepts. However, in addition to premiering the ''same week'' (and thus, giving the Munsters' writers no time to copy anything), the Universal monster franchise that they're based on came before the comics.

* TheWoobie: Marilyn. Everyone in the family, including herself, thinks she's hideous, and anytime she tries to form a relationship with a boy the family scares him off or something else goes wrong.

* TaintedByThePreview: pretty much any optimism for this movie vanished once the trailer dropped. With many criticizing the acting and extremely cheap looking sets, costumes, editing, and cinematography despite its 40 million dollar budget. With many comparing it to either a Website/YouTube sketch or a porn parody.