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"The New Adddams Family" wraps shooting (apparently) !!!
Glen here...
...with a quick message from FRIBBLE (I'm guessing he's a cross between a Furby and a
Tribble - good god what an unholy combination that would be). Fribble's message is rather self
explanatory:
Fribble wrote:
For those people who care about such things, The Fox Family Channels' The New
Addams Family finishes
filming the last of 65 episodes tomorrow, May 28th, at their studio in Burnaby, British
Columbia.
A proposal
for a direct-to-video movie was rejected last week.
The bulk of the sets, props and costumes will be sent to Los
Angeles.
Glen
If you send a message to the above address & bounces back to you, HREF="mailto:glenoliver@hotmail.com">send mail to a back-up address!
Or call:
(512) 347-1992
Mail can be sent to:
Glen Oliver
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what a tragedy!!!
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What a shame that an excellent series like this has already gone to waste. I'm getting weepy. Ah, who am I kidding?
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I knew I must've been one of the only people that liked this show...and don't worry, I AM ashamed of it!
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Just think...65 episodes? In only nine or so months? If they would have slowed way the heck down and only did like a third as much maybe they would have been worthy of the title. Instead they are like that wretched third film (Reunion). Please bring back Lloyd, Huston, and baby Pubert (who inexplicably was left out of said film). Tim Curry as Gomez was perfect, but in such a crappy movie it just did no justice. Nor did the complete characterization contradictions (within the film and with the other established materials. i.e.:The Addams love to dance, Uncle Fester would never say: "This is Aaawwesome!" Charles Addams is rolling over in his grave.
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This show, hands down, had one of the lousiest, most inept, unattractive casts of ANY show EVER! I tried to watch at least 10 minutes of one episode (knowing I could never sit through a whole one) and only got through three before I wanted to run for the proverbial hills. Just an all-around crappy crap-fest.
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65 episodes??? They made 65 episodes of this crap??? WHO GREENLIGHTED THAT?!?! I WANT THEIR HEADS AND I WANT THEM NOW.
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Hay, this is America. Crap sells add space. Quality dosen't. The average TV viewer has the IQ of a bowl of oatmeal on a good day. Toss in the "Family Show" aspect and the crap gets hip deep, but it sells for sure. America, what a country!!!!!
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I just saw my first episode of this show today. God was it awful. Truely uninspired garbage. My main problem is that I will still have to watch every episode of this show, because I now have a huge, gigantic, massive crush on the woman that plays Morticia. Still it will be tough since the show is so utterly bad. Jesus must be spinning in his grave.
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ATTENTION HOLLYWOOD: STOP PEEING IN THE GENE POOLS! ALSO, THE ROCK CANDY IN THE URNALS IS NOT FOR YOU TO EAT! QUIT HALLUCINATING AND GET BACK TO WORK, YOU MALIFELOUS DRUG ADDICTS!
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The little gal who plays Wednesday is going to be one hot number when she gets older. I predicted Natalie Portman, Kirsten Dunst, Sara Polley AND that hot girl from Unhappily Ever After...I guess it would help if I knew Wednesday's name...
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You "predicted" that Natalie Portman would be hot? C'mon! I'm sure that every fucking man alive felt like a disgusting pedophile after seeing the Proffesional. I predict that cold water will be refreshing on a hot day!:P One to watch for is the girl from The City of Lost Children. Give her four or five more years and look out.
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>>You "predicted" that Natalie Portman would be hot? C'mon! I'm sure that every fucking man alive felt like a disgusting pedophile after seeing the Proffesional.>One to watch for is the girl from The City of Lost Children. Give her four or five more years and look out. << I can see that
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As someone who has actually sat through 20-30 episodes (the dubious benefits of having children who like the show), let me note:
Dubious casting. Fester and Lurch were truly terrible. Wednesday and Gomez, pretty good. Morticia always had the feel me of someone in makeup (as opposed to Huston or Jones, who could actually make you think they were...well, vampires or something pale and undead). Puggsley and Granmama, okay.
So-so plots. The problem is, this was basically the original show with (very slightly) updated plots for the 90's. There was a bit more sex, a bit more implied violence between the kids. The much darker Addams of the first two movies were pretty much lost, except for Wednesday's one-liners. Nothing to really match the "Is there a God" game's line from the first movie.
Acting: the other problem is that these were original-series scripts, so the basic, "Someone wanders into the house and goes nuts from weird stuff" plot, which was already old-hat 40 years ago, gets tiresome _real_ quick. This aspect was toned down for the first two movies, and well so.
Nostalgia: I never thought F/X quality could go backwards, but the Cousin Itt outfit is actually _worse_ than the original - it looks like a mime who forgot to shave. Getting John Astin back was inspired, but they really didn't give him anything to do other than be Astin. Which he does quite well, but still...
Overall, the show might have worked better if they had tried to set it squarely in the 90's, like the movies did. Instead, we got a lot of cheesey 50's-style sitcom plots. Combine with some bad casting decisions (half the cast's big claim to fame is being in McGuyver episodes, for pete's sake), and you've got a show that might be entertaining to 5-10 year olds, but that's about it. -
fox Family does not own TNAF, it is a canadian made show. Strange but true!
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....they're altogether ended.
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