The Addams Family

Hilarious adaptation of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons that plays out more like the plot of a television episode (perhaps intentional as an homage to the 1960s show?) than a feature film, with Gomez (Juliá) and his family being reunited with his estranged brother (Lloyd), except the man who they believe is Uncle Fester is really an impostor out to steal the family's riches that is hidden in a vault. Goth and humor meshes together well in this outing, never leading to punch-lines that you can easily poke holes in (unlike the sequel); but you never fully feel like you're watching the Addams Family until you find out what really happened to Fester.