October is every horror fans favourite time of yeah and well in order to celebrate this wonderful time of yeah I thought i'd look at a bad remake featuring a spooky family. There have been so many adaptations of The Addams Family over the years some good some not so good but one the adaptation that people seem to forget about 1998 TV sitcom version and well since it's nearly halloween I thought i'd bring you my review of The New Addams Family debut episode called "Halloween With The Addams Family" enjoy the review everyone.
The plot of the episode is Wednesday and Pugsley go trick or treating while the rest of The Addams Family minus Thing for some reason invite some new friends into there mansion with those new friends turning out to be robbers. The plot of the episode is honestly the least of the episodes problems since there are many more things that are wrong with the episode and it doesn't help that there basically is no story being told in this episode hell what I just described to you could be more of a summery of the episodes events rather then the actual plot of the episode.
Starring in the episode is Glenn Taranto as Gomez Addams , Ellie Harvie as Morticia Addams and Betty Phillips as Grandmama. Also starring in the episode Michael Roberds as Uncle Fester , Nicole Fugere as Wednesday , Brody Smith as Pugsley , John DeSantis as Lurch , Robert Moloney as Ed , Rob de Leeuw as Bully , David Fredericks as A Police Officer , Suzanne Palmer as A Cop , Martin Novotny as The Grim Reaper and Jerry Van Dyke as The Burglar.
Oh boy where do I begin with the acting in this episode to say that it's bad would almost be an insult to things that are bad. Since yeah the acting in this episode is so freaking bad every actor in this (apart from the actress playing Wednesday) is just so over the top that it becomes annoying all of the adults actors are just hamming it up and not in a way that's fun it's done in a way that makes you want to turn the episode off.
When I said that this episode was a remake I wasn't kidding because they remade the 1977 sixties Addams Family TV series reunion movie Halloween With The New Addams Family. While this episode from what I can gather does change up some things like the title dropping the word New from this episodes title and the subplot of Pugsley and Wednesday going trick or treating this episode is pretty much the exact same story as the Halloween With The New Addams Family hell i'm surprised that this episode didn't introduce Gomez's brother Poncho since he was a character in the Halloween With The New Addams Family as well.
Oddly enough this whole series is mostly made up of remakes from classic episodes from the sixties Addams Family TV show. Which makes me wonder why was this show even made since there's nothing new or creative about the show whatsoever it was purely made just to cash in on The Addams Family IP which by the late nineties when this show was coming out was dwindling anyway so being creative and new would have actually helped the show but I guess that's to much to ask from this show tho.
In all honesty out of the actual Addams Family the one character I actually liked or even found enjoyable to watch was Wednesday. Simply because her character is actually written pretty close to how she was written in the previous films both theatrical and direct to video which made the character fun to watch because everyone else even to some extent Pugsley are written so badly that they might as well be different characters entirely.
For some dumb reason this episode seems to thing that the Addams Family are dumb as hell which couldn't be further from the truth. Yes the family can be a bit dim at times but it's was more of them not knowing about how other people do things and not them not knowing when there being freaking robbed which makes the family look dumb as hell because this is something that the family would be able to pick up on right away.
I wouldn't blame any one if they forgot about this show since it only lasted one season which for some reason lasted sixty five episodes. How this show managed to get that many episodes is truly beyond me since it's such a bad show no one would have blamed the network which in this case was the Fox Family Channel if they cancelled this show after only a handful episodes just because it doesn't take a genius to see that this was a bad show.
Now then since this is a comedy that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in the episode. Which I feel is one of the episodes more stronger suits which isn't a high bar to reach and isn't really a good thing since alot of the jokes in this episode aren't that funny but I will admit that I laughed at the idea of Pugsley and Wednesday going trick or treating as siskel and ebert and spoofing them but even then the joke doesn't really work since as far as I can tell they both gave positive reviews to both the theatrically released Addams Family movies.
Overall this episode was really freaking and not in a so good it's bad kind of way it's just flat out bad and flat out wrong on so many levels. Yes there si some enjoyment to be had with this episode and i'm assuming this series but if this episode is anything to go by then im glad that the show isn't that remember as for what score I give this episode it gets a 2 out of 10 from me , as for where I got these images they where gathered from the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page or Goggle Images and for once I cannot recommend any website because the quality of images is about the same on either one so choose which ever one you want.
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