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The discovery in Barry Sonnenberg’s 1991 horror comedy Addams Family was Christina Ricci as Wednesday Friday Addams. Tim Burton was supposed to be directing the film, but he was too busy with Batman. The fact that Netflix is now making Tim Burton the producer and the pale-morbid pigtail cynic Wednesday the main character in the latest series offshoot of the “Addams Family” franchise, which has existed since 1938, is a pretty good idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3jlyar1_mM
But although Jenna Ortega does an excellent job as a lookalike of the young Christina Ricci, despite the desire for the macabre, a quirky, sinister staging and subtle moments of shock, the series comes across as harmless as a family-friendly gothic version of “Harry Potter”: The Hogwarts is called Nevermore here, in the schoolyards, in the dormitories and at the Edgar Allan Poe memory rowing competitions of this somewhat different boarding school, a wonderful variety of vampires, werewolves and sirens come together. But at least Christina Ricci herself is playing again. (netflix)
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