YMMV / The Addams Family (2019)

• And You Thought It Would Fail: Many people had their doubts about the film's chances, but while it was no critical darling and never set the box office on fire, it also proved to have remarkable staying power, remaining in the top five for months.
• Awesome Music: As usual, the catchy theme song, which the film admittedly does a faithful remaster of.
• Critical Dissonance: Holds a 45% "Rotten" critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, but a far higher (69%) audience score.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Any fan of the original sitcom could spot Ophelia Frump from the crowd and wanted to see more of her.
• Les Yay: Both Wednesday and Parker become utterly fascinated with one another as they spend more time together, and many of their interactions are easy to read as budding attraction.
• Magnificent Bastard: Wednesday Addams, reimagined here as a Mad Scientist, retains her stoic charm and quick thinking. Repeatedly coming up with creative ways to kill her brother and wanting to make her own way in the world, Wednesday starts public school, where she revives a bunch of dead frogs to cause a school-wide panic and humiliate an Alpha Bitch. Befriending Parker and eventually imprisoned while Margaux tries to kill her family, Wednesday uses Parker's hairpin to escape and rescues her family, while having Parker film Margaux's freak-out and costing Margaux her show. When Gomez forces her to go on a family trip and enter a pageant, Wednesday uses a bunch of red paint to ruin it. She captures Mr. Mustela, who has been following her family, before dropping him to his death. Being led to believe that Cyrus Strange is actually her father, Wednesday uses Lurch's musical talents to convince a group of bikers to take them to Sausalito and later saves her family from Strange, before using her quick thinking to turn the mutated Uncle Fester back to normal.
• Moral Event Horizon: In-Universe, it's bad enough that Margaux insists on "helping" people against their will and forcing everyone to conform to her standards, but what finally turns the whole town against her is the revelation that she planted cameras in everyone's homes to spy on them, including while they're on the toilet. When this is revealed in the climax, even the townspeople who supported her conformist ideals think that's going way too far.
• Older Than They Think:
  • This isn't the first Addams Family movie to incorporate modern music in its soundtrack. The first two live action movies have rap songs (which Cousin Itt—voiced here by Snoop Dogg—also had a taste for) and the third has an a cappella R&B-style cover of the TV series' theme song.
  • The fan-disliked "ugly" version of the family is actually a reversion to a style that recalls the source material. Unfortunately, some fans believe the stylization went too far.
• Questionable Casting::
  • While the acting casting choices of the titular family were very well received, some fans felt that the actors ^note Particularly Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron as Gomez and Morticia, respectively would have been dead ringers to play the characters in a live action version, rather than just doing the voices for an animated film.
  • Cousin Itt is voiced by, of all the Celebrity Voice Actor options... Snoop Dogg? Even with Itt's method of speaking It's kinda difficult to not tell that it's him with getting billing in the opening and Itt's entrance to the gathering by gaudy limousine with "Drop It Like It's Hot" blaring out, dressed exactly as how Snoop Dogg would dress most days. ^note  Though this is a Mythology Gag to the 90s film which at the time had a song by the then popular MC Hammer who made a music video for the the first movie and whose song is heard playing when Itt comes to the family reunion in that film. He barely even appears, anyway.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus is that, while the voice cast is great and it's always fun to see The Addams do their thing, the plot is weak and too lighthearted compared to other Addams adaptations.
• The Scrappy: The film's Big Bad Margaux Needler is disliked for no other reason than being a Karma Houdini despite having committed very serious offenses that are worthy of jail time.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The Adaptational Angst Upgrade the family receives in regards to their creepy nature, and changes such as Mortica being more closed off and reluctant to interact with outsiders has received this response from many fans, who felt the changes miss the point of the Addams Family and why they're humorous.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: While the designs of the established characters are adapted very faithfully from the source material, this more exaggerated art style doesn't translate as well to the film's original human characters. This is particularly egregious with Wednesday's friend Parker, who has huge lips, no chin, cylinder nose and a body like a toothpick, which makes her by far the more weird-looking of the two.

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