Which … sort of ruins the complete level of The Addams Household? Clearly, we’ll reserve judgment till the sequence comes out, however traditionally, the joke of The Addams Household is that they’re totally distinctive, macabre weirdos who inexplicably exist inside an in any other case extraordinary, conformist society. Within the unique comics by Charles Addams, the joke typically boiled right down to a typical slice of Americana that grew to become delightfully grotesque when filtered by the Addams Household’s sensibilities, whether or not it was freaking out a babysitter –
Or getting ready to pour boiling oil on their Christmas caroling neighbors –
Charles Addams
And this was by no means higher expressed than within the ‘90s motion pictures, like in Addams Household Values, the place Wednesday and Pugsley are compelled to attend a disquietingly healthful summer season camp.