#90s remake

𝘽𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙣𝙚 (𝘽𝙖𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙣) - 𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙣

𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 ( 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣) - 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙕𝙚𝙩𝙖-𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨

𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙆𝙚𝙣𝙩 ( 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣 ) - 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙧

𝙃𝙖𝙡 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 ( 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 )- 𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙚

𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙪𝙧 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙮 ( 𝘼𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙣 ) - 𝙏𝙞𝙢 𝙍𝙤𝙩𝙝

𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣 ( 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙝 ) - 𝙇𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙤 𝘿𝙞 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙤

𝙅’𝙤𝙣𝙣 𝙅’𝙤𝙣𝙯𝙯 ( 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 ) - 𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚

𝙊𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣 ( 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬 ) - 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙙 𝙋𝙞𝙩𝙩

The Addams Family

Snap-snapping to the rules of the 21st Century

Grade- C+

“You were right, mon cherie. People can be so cruel.”

Clearly, Hollywood is running out of ideas. It’s been remake after remake. Adaptation after adaptation. Prequel after sequel.

Adapted from comics into television in the 1970’s and later into film in the early 1990’s, The Addams Family, served as the ultimate satire of the suburban, white picket fence, apple pie families. Gomez and Morticia put Justin & Hailey Bieber to shame as the ultimate #couplegoals, caring parents who were deeply in a love that refused to lose its hot black spark. Wednesday and Puglsy had troubles fitting in with the blonde, blue eyed popular kids, but found solace and friendship in the outcasts. And Uncle Fester was well, Uncle Fester.

Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2) and Greg Tiernan (Sausage Party) co-direct the first animated film of The Addams Family, and like what the Power Rangers did in 2017, the film gets lost in being modern to the endless complaints and hashtags of the 2010’s. In comparison to the films of the 1990’s, there is little focus on the love between Gomez (Oscar Issac) and Morticia (Charlize Theron). Instead, the relationship between Morticia and Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz) is emphasized as the latter is going through her bratty, rebellious teenage years, while her Mother can’t let go of their childish bond. The primary theme is bullying and rejection of the unfamiliar as the family battles the aptly named suburban of “Assimilation” from trying to, well, assimilate them. This was obvious in the 90’s films in a satirical fashion, but is shoved down our throats in a typical 2019 kind of way.

Say what you want about the man, but Michael Bay took what millennial's enjoyed as kids and pumped it full of steroids, without a care in the world about teaching school lessons to Gen Z (and whichever generation is now under 10…). THAT is how you remake something from the fabulous, cheesy, over-the-top 90’s.

Alicia Silverstone joining The Baby-Sitters Club is instantly iconic, and our ‘90s hearts are screaming

Alicia Silverstone joining The Baby-Sitters Club is instantly iconic, and our ‘90s hearts are screaming

When we heard that there was a Baby-Sitters Club reboot coming to Netflix back in February, we instantly dusted off our copies of the beloved Scholastic book series and called our friends on our landline, because we knew this reboot would be totally epic. Dare we say it’s a “super special“? N…