No.1056233 [Last50 Posts]
Well it doesn't look as obnoxious as something like Hotel Transylvania but I really don't feel there's much comedic value here from this trailer. Don't like Morticia's voice much either.
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No.1056235
Too on the nose. Lacks the subtly of the original cartoons.
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No.1056238
>>1056233
>"This is an average American family"
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No.1056244
>>1056235
This is hollywood. Subtlety does not exist in the average movie because the average audience member doesn't understand.
>>1056238
Sure is funny how none of them are mexican or asian couples.
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No.1056246
>>1056238
That part was very lazily drawn. They could be converted into an NPC family. I think Wednesday's head is a little too oblong. That "sunk my battleship" line makes me think it might have more modern jokes than I would like.
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No.1056250
>>1056246
Uncle Fester seems off as well. I think it's a comvbination of the droopy sausage nose and the voice.
The whole thing makes me think that a new Addams Family could do well, but that this isn't the way to do it.
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No.1056251
I like the designs being based off the original designs but I loathe the voices.
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No.1056286
I know Wednesday had a long head in the original cartoons but god damn.
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No.1056292
>>1056233
Bored average, Look like a freaking muppet show with no outrage value. I don't like Gomez and Fester already. Gomez should get exciting from crushing his head, not worried and Fester should be overreacting from joy for sinking his toy ship.
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No.1056351
>from the makers of Sausage Party
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No.1056352
We need to compare them against Chas Addams descriptions of them.
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No.1056353
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No.1056364
>poz in the opening seconds
watch me get banned again
What's with the "animated caricature" style lately? It's nearly impossible to watch, you have to adjust your brain to their forms every time you see a new character on screen.
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No.1056380
Being animated, I hope to use the opportunity to showcase more visual gags you wouldn't be able to pull of in live action. The character designs are alright, but feel slightly off or feel like they could be better or touched up, but perhaps that's intentional to be more unsettling or uncomfortable. They definitely could have better voice actors, but the ones they have are serviceable, they are the worst they could be. Except for Uncle Fester, Nick Kroll is possibly one of the worst choices for him. Makes me think the voice actors got hired for other reasons or because they knew someone.
None of the gags or scenes were all that remarkable or had me excited for the movie. But I hope they at least try to do something with it instead of using recognition cash grab tactics and making an average mediocre movie. I remain cautiously optimistic, but I don't have high hopes.
If there is something good to say about it, I like the fact they made Wednesday's braids into nooses.
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No.1056381
>>1056380
they aren't the worst they could be**
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No.1056385
>>1056352
>>1056353
Huh. I take back some of my character design criticisms. They're actually a fair bit closer to the original designs than I knew. Movie still looks mediocre at best.
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No.1056392
>>1056233
Dark humor happening to real people is somehow funnier. All these effects so far could have been done with people easily.
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No.1056408
>>1056233
>Morticia's voice
Ew, she sounds like a mud-mouthed gen xer.
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No.1056410
>>1056380
>Except for Uncle Fester, Nick Kroll is possibly one of the worst choices for him.
Kroll is the poster boy for trust fund kiddies who had their career bought by rich parents, and for rampant favoritism among a certain group prominent in Hollywood.
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No.1056421
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No.1056433
It looks like fun. Not much else to say about it. It seems to do a decent job capturing the general surreal/satirical yet wholesome/sincere tone of the franchise But all we've seen so far is a trailer, so I can't say that much.
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No.1056435
>>1056385
Some 2d designs just dont work in cgi.
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No.1056455
I prefered it when Lurch was blue
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No.1056460
>>1056435
Oh, I completely agree that an animated Addams Family using traditional 2d animation would be better than what we're likely to get from this, but unfortunately the CGI meme isn't dead yet. My only point was I'm pleasantly surprised that the designs are closer to the original drawings than I originally thought.
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No.1056503
>>1056455
I hope they bring back those Underwear-loving Fester-hating neighbours and their rebellious son in the movie at least…
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No.1056512
The designs are kind of meh for me. They didn't translate well into cg. I do like how Wednesday's pigtails are nooses though.
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No.1056519
>>1056233
ehhhhh… I know its faithful to the original designs, but I always thought the women of the Addams Family could have been… cuter.
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No.1056522
>>1056519
>but I always thought the women of the Addams Family could have been… cuter.
That kind of goes against the whole point of their characters.
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No.1056529
>>1056352
>if they are married at all
Absolutely scandalous.
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No.1056533
>>1056421
Same directors, and same studio (albeit with new owners). That's it retard.
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No.1056578
>>1056244
It's funnier and quite sad that the father in the last pic is a fucking cuckold.
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No.1056589
I know the designs are very close to the source material, but I think they just seem too clean that they stick out in comparison to the realistic background.
I know it's not feasible, but I would have loved to have seen this done in the stop motion style of Boxtrolls or Kubo or Corpse Bride. Think it would have captured the style perfectly.
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No.1056595
Just noticed Wednesday's pigtails are nooses. It's a nice detail.
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No.1056597
>>1056589
It's feasible but they don't want to spend the money.
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No.1056647
everything is shit now but I still hope this is not shit
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No.1056703
>>1056238
This part was especially stupid because the Addams family isn't even a nuclear family(TM), but an honest-to-god traditional family, i.e. multiple generations living together before real estate marketers decided you need to buy a whole new house to be a real adult.
>>1056244
> Sure is funny how none of them are mexican or asian couples.
They probably couldn't figure out how to represent Asians or Mexicans without it looking wayycist.
>>1056353
>>1056352
Damn, this may be the most visually accurate addaptation.
>>1056380
>They definitely could have better voice actors, but the ones they have are serviceable
It's obvious they went for name recognition hoping to pull people into the box office.
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No.1056704
>>1056597
>>1056589
You can do fake stop-motion with CGI and have it look alright, at no real additional cost.
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No.1056717
>>1056704
Spiderman did it pretty well.
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No.1056860
>>1056693
wednesday is so ugly. I am not even some freak who ever thought she was cute, the design doesn;t fit anywhere she is full ayy lmao
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No.1056949
Did they seriously have to have the addams family ironically self aware what freaks they are? Older works had them fully believed that they were a perfectly normal family and it was a major part of their charm. Now it’s nowhere near as entertaining.
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No.1056979
>>1056949
of course, can't have any subtlety or intelligence in today's media
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No.1056983
>>1056860
I'd still hit it.
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No.1057007
Could they fuck this up any worse? The entire point of the Addams family is they're an abnormal family who consider everyone else weird. When you start with modern poz saying a woman with 4 cats is as valid a family as 2 white christians with 2.5 children you fuck up the entire concept.
The designs are ugly on every level. Wednesday works as a cute girl who will murder you. The same way her mother is a black widow in human form. Making them hideous devalues their characters in any movie or TV form we've had them in.
I'm not even touching gomez
Expect shitty pop culture jokes every where and any scene which should have an emotional impact to have a joke slid into it to ruin it.
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No.1057009
>>1057007
The Adams Family doesn't entirely work as a concept now. You actually need some conception of what a normal family is first. The Adams' look like quaint goths, or even somewhat stuffy conservatives these days. There's freakier shit all over the place being lauded as normal, or better than normal.
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No.1057010
>>1057009
You are entirely correct. The addams were stuffy conservative types with a weird twist in the 90s stuff. But how can you out weird trannies and dog fuckers? Does Cousin It have pronouns now? Is Morticia cucking with Pugsley?
At this point the weirdest they could make them is a loving family with a masculine father who loves his wife and two loyal inquisitive children who don't spend all day on the internet.
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No.1057027
>>1056233
I don't see any miniature train sets.
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No.1057039
>>1057010
Actually, that's been a part of the subtle satire of the Addams family since their inception: even though they're a creepy, weird, ugly family of misfits and freaks, they're more happy, emotionally stable and functional than even most other TV families.
They are utterly removed from societal norms, have no connection whatsoever to modern notions of normalcy and decency and yet they're still a loving, happy family unit. Meanwhile, most other couples you see on TV constantly bicker and are completely miserable.
The most freakish thing about the Addams, the thing that makes them so different than us, is that they're happy.
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No.1057057
>>1056286
>>1057007
The animated series in the 90s had a great Wednesday design. She wasn't some Gothic beauty or some hideously ugly thing like in the trailer in OP's post. She looked like an ordinary girl.
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No.1057069
>>1057039
I was not planning on feeling today.
fuck you and your corny ass synopses, anon
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No.1057094
>>1057039
I didn't need this revelation today.
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No.1057100
>>1057039
Also happy without being degenerates.
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No.1061372
>>1057039
>Actually, that's been a part of the subtle satire of the Addams family since their inception: even though they're a creepy, weird, ugly family of misfits and freaks, they're more happy, emotionally stable and functional than even most other TV families.
This is part of why the Broadway musical fell flat. In it, the Addams are just a normal, dysfunctional, wreck.
Morticia is freaking out about aging and become unattractive to her husband.
The grandmother is just your run-of-the-mill pot-smoking senile grandparent.
Pugsley, other than having a masochistic streak, is just a boy hung up on the fact that if his big sister gets married he won't have her around to play with anymore.
Lurch is comic relief.
Fester, while featuring in one of the better songs, is a being of "no specific sexuality" straight out of tumblr, who is in love with the moon (seriously).
Gomez, instead of having a rich history of eccentric Addams ancestors, seems to have a history of lies he makes up on the spot, and is your standard flustered husband trying to cope with his wife's mood swings and unreasonable behavior.
Wednesday is basically just an edgy young adult who is in love with a boy who her family doesn't like, and whose family doesn't like hers. Ironically, this makes her depiction the closest to canon, since (other than the live action movie ver.) she's always been the most normal Addams. She's basically the Marylin Munster of the group, except that she still visually matches her family and has some creepy interests.
This, her having one of the catchiest songs, and Krysta Rodriguez being kind of a cutie pie made her the best character.
Also, most of the songs sucked. Good songs are sort of critical for a musical. Disappointingly, while Bebe Neuwirth looked the part of Morticia, she just didn't seem to fit in that role… though it's possible that the bad story is more to blame than her. The rest were… meh.
Oh, and their mansion is inexplicably in the center of Central Park, because lolsorandom!
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No.1061380
>>1061372
Funny enough, I was recently involved in a highschool production of the Broadway musical, and I can confirm that all of this is true.
On top of lacking the core familial elements and having the typical Highschool actor issues, the play is an awful way to introduce people to the Addams family. The script assumes that the audience will be familiar with all the little quirks and personality traits of each character, so there's very little in the way of exposition and explanations. A lot of time is spent on the problems that Wednesday's boyfriend's family has, the whole sub plot with Fester and the moon feels tacked on and wasteful, and Wednesday being mad at her family for being bad at pretending to be "normal" in front of their guests is kind of ludicrous.
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No.1061423
>>1061372
Most of that doesn't sound too bad. Even functional families have problems - heck, if everything was perfect there'd hardly be a plot. But I guess if the musical didn't capture the core bond/happiness of the family I could see how it might fuck it up.
>Wednesday was always the most normal
Outwardly, anyway. Inside, she's always been an Addams.
>Fester's sexuality
I really don't need to know anything about that. Please, god, don't tell me about what, when or how Fester fucks. The idea of him being completely asexual is only mildly comforting as is.
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No.1061468
>>1061423
Im pretty sure Fester's the type of guy to clone himself a female version and just got at it.
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No.1061533
>>1061372
What the fuck? Who thought any of that was a good idea?
>>1061468
>>1061423
Technically in the original series, the films and the cartoon, Fester is portrayed as an incredibly desperate basement-dwelling-tier mega virgin, although frankly, I prefer they just not even talk about what he fucks in this day and age since they'll find someway to tumblrfy him.
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No.1061554
>>1061372
>3rd pic
Wait is Gomez played by Nathan Lane? I didn't know still got work!
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No.1061573
>>1061468
Please anon, don't post ye memes of ye old, thy are wasted on nowadays audience.
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No.1061580
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No.1061590
>>1061580
Holy shit a talking hedgehog.
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No.1062756
>>1061423
>Most of that doesn't sound too bad. Even functional families have problems - heck, if everything was perfect there'd hardly be a plot.
When an Addams gets bent out of shape, its over weird shit, like Gomez wigging out that his son suddenly turned into a blond Kewpie doll instead of a mustachioed freak.
In the musical, they fret about mundane shit like growing old.
Beyond just being lame, it breaks character. Kind of like how Cursed Child had Harry Potter being afraid of pigeons (because lolsorandom) and telling his boy that sometimes he wished he wasn't his son. Fucking what?
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No.1062774
>>1061573
Then where to post them? Nowhere? Eat a bowl of dicks
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No.1069201
I was hesitant about this movie, but now I'm sold on it.
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No.1069202
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No.1069214
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No.1069228
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No.1069237
>>1069201
>>1069202
>MGM is making this movie
Im honestly surprised it wasnt Sony.
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No.1069280
>>1069237
I didn't know MGM still made movies.
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No.1069637
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No.1069644
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No.1069649
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No.1069650
>>1069644
The film was cheap and made a lot back. Didnt you see all the ihop commercials?
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No.1069651
>>1069650
I don't watch TV. Though I did hear the movie made a lot of money in Russia.
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No.1069654
>>1069651
>Though I did hear the movie made a lot of money in Russia.
I can imagine something like the Adams Family connecting real well with a Russian audience.
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No.1069661
>>1069654
I'd think so too but I feel like this movie target's american general audiences too much. Makes it harder to understand if you're a slav, I'd think.
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No.1069664
>>1069661
Well it is an American movie, difference being the Adam's continue to act the way they usually do.
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