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Absolutely Fantastic

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Actually, I sorta enjoyed this show, especially the actor who played Gomez. You could tell he'd spent hours watching John Astin in the original and was doing a more than passing fair homage to him. He was pretty good, all told. I don't remember much about the rest of the cast, I guess I was too busy laughing myself sick over Gomez.Still and all, the original is the best. I saw an interview with the four remaining actors the other day on accounta the series was just released on DVD. They were John Astin, the two kids and - believe it or not - the little person who played Cousin It. Felix (I didn't get his last name) was supposed to be the better Cousin It. Apparently, you can tell the difference when another actor played him...I sort of remember a more subdued Cousin It, now that I think about it.

My daughter was watching the New Addams Family one night and I got hooked. I was a big fan of the original series and I think the production company did a great job with this remake. The part I like the most is the similarity (both physically and in portrayal) between the original cast and the current one. I just watched an episode where John Aston (the original Gomez) appeared as Grandpapa Addams. The inside jokes started flying and it was a great laugh. I think this is a definite winner. For anyone on the east coast who get the Fox Family Channel, you can see two episodes a night between 6pm and 7pm EST.

Having watched "The Addams Family" when it originally ran and having seen the Addams Family movies, I'd have to say the New Addams Family series on FoxFamily is incredibly more pleasing and entertaining to me than I found the movies to be. I felt the casting of the original movie ruined its playfulness and really didn't have the same flavor as the 60's series. Glenn Taranto is eerily much more reminiscent of John Ashton and seems much happier and outgoing than Raul Julio was. He and Ellie Harvie portray the Addam's passions more frequently, but in such a carefree way it makes physical touch seem like a normal happy occurrence of two people in love instead of a segway to adult entertainment. Nicole Fugere is an excellent Wednesday and steals the show. Both she and Brody Smith as Pugsly really bring out the children's parts (it is on a children's network) as two average children with just some seriously odd family values. The show is incredibly cast, better written than the movies I saw, and very entertaining; both my son and I love to watch it! It's one of the few 60's revivals that is actually a treat to watch. I just wish the production company would put up a web site for the show as the FoxFamily site is very limited.

The new show is as good as if not better than the original! The cast fit their parts perfectly. This is one of the best new shows to come out in a long time!