this family reminds me alot of my own lovely lovely family but most of them don't realise this (which makes it even better) since there is no sense of irony about their behaviour. my brother is fester and i am the thing

A very funny adaptation of the old television sitcom. The entire cast is excellent, but most especially Raul Julia, Angelica Houston, Christopher LLoyd, and Christina Ricci. Also, the special effects used for Thing are impressive. Make sure you take your warped sense of humor with you, however.

Raul Julia as Gomez was awesome. He brings lots of energy & charisma to the movie. Fester was a classic, lots of weird facial expressions, as was cute little Wednesday, who actually stood out with her morbid but ideal delivery. My favourite scene was (check spelling) the mamooshka scene, what a classic, i remember rewinding that part heaps, laughing my head off at how sick Gomez is. I can see the wooden serious types hating this movie, but if u arent, u will like it. I suppose it helps having a bit of a dark twisted sense of humour, i found this movie fun to watch.

Well, I guess I kind of have a wierd sense of humor, but I absolutely loved this movie and the crazy atmosphere that was in it. Nice, short, and to the point.

I'm sorry, but this movie is gross. Does anybody know how sickening it is to see a boy spread out on a silver dinner platter as if he were the intended dinner? I certainly hope that anybody reading that description of a scene in this clinker will agree with me that it is definately sick and disgusting. This is the movie that pushed the needless obsession for adapting old television serials over the edge? I'm disappointed. While I certainly love the director's later efforts like Get Shorty and Men in Black, that does not mean that Sonnenfeld should have had to make his debut with something as offensive as this. At least the satire in MAD magazine("The Ad-Nauseum Family") provided a good antidote after seeing this crapola. And why? Simple: Because it showed how wretched the actual movie really is. And that's what I about MAD, they can somtimes show how terrible a lot of the movies out there really are, and can tell a story that's much funnier than the actual film that the satire is based on as well. Anyway, what next? A movie based on that other haunted house series that also ran just two seasons, the Munsters? I should hope not, and people had better not get any of the wrong ideas from what I'm saying. The same goes for this movie.