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...ADDAMS FAMILY. This elegant spin-off from the Charles Addams drawings and the '60s TV series is worth seeing for the casting alone: Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez, Christina Ricci as the elfin ghoul Wednesday. A one-joke movie -- every gag is about the aristocracy of decay -- but handsomely told...
...upscale imagination at play in this live-action film. Director Barry Sonnenfeld and writers Larry Wilson and Caroline Thompson can mine as hearty a laugh from the preposterously banal floral pattern on the Addamses' sofa, or from the picture-perfect contrast of bulbous-eyed Raul Julia (as Gomez Addams) and slinky Anjelica Huston (his wife Morticia), as they can from Morticia's order to her daughter: "Wednesday, play with your food...
Both B&B and Addams are about, and in favor of, what was once known as class. They side with the aristocrats of style -- the haunted prince of B&B and Gomez, a suave prince of darkness -- against the booboisie that presumes to understand and overthrow them. The films' makers are saying that style is what matters. The Beast must learn to chew his food and tamp down his temper and dance without crushing Belle before she can accept him. As for Gomez and Morticia, who moonily recall their first date ("a boy, a girl, an open grave") and rhapsodize...
...Monica Gomez...
...Monica Gomez...