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This is the return of a cult family, which marked the spirit of moviegoers in the 1990s: "The Addams family" returns to French screens, from Wednesday, December 4. And this time it's an animated film, signed Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan.
The Adams family was originally a series of drawings, published in 1937 in the New Yorker by caricaturist Charles Samuel Adams. Nearly 82 years later and 28 years after their appearance on the big screen, in a cult film with Christina Ricci and Anjelica Huston, they are back in an animated film that pays tribute to the origins: when the family settles with their two children in a gloomy mansion.
They will have a lot to do with their neighbor, a reality TV presenter who wants to kick them out of their homes. But also with their daughter Mercredi, in full crisis of adolescence, and who goes to war against her gothic parents.
Lugubrious jokes and trashy imagery
The two filmmakers were inspired by the drawings of Charles Addams. To double the members of the family, they appealed to a good cast of actors: Charlize Theron, and Oscar Isaac for the original version, Kev Adams and Melanie Bernier for the French version.
Black humor and gloomy jokes are of course at the rendezvous of this new opus of honesty, the imagery a bit trashy, but not too much, just enough to delight the youngest audiences.