when grandpa and grandma addams get the rare wontheimer ( . spell ) disease that be slowly turn them normal and gomez decides to take his family to a family reunion and but end up go to the adam family reunion instead and while an ordinary couple end up at the addams family home . this be the premise for addams family reunion and a rather sorry entry in the addams family legacy . i be generally a big fan of the addams family and whether the chas addams cartoon and the original television series with john astin and carolyn jones and or the first two movie with raul julia and anjelica huston . i be not impress by the animated series ( neither the 70 nor the 90 version ) though i would not claim to have see every episode . and i do not like the new addams family television series ( 1998 1999 ) either . and that be my problem with addams family reunion . it doesn not have the comedic charm of the original tv series and and it doesn not have the dark humor and closeness to the original cartoon of the sonnenfeld movie . it do however have the feel of the new addams family and and indeed and come out at the same time a that series and it seem that this be release to promote and be an introduction to that series . this movie fail on several level . the humor just isn not funny and it lack the darkness of the other entry in the addams family archive . second and there seem to be a lot of miscast here . i really like tim curry and think that he would make a good gomez . but for some reason and he just doesn not manage to pull it off in this one . someone else comment that he do a bad raul julia impression and that pretty much sum it up perfectly . darryl hannah clearly try to pull off her role a morticia but she just isn not make for this role . the child actor play the child and the actor do fester and simply do a poor job . totally unconvincing and annoy . i do not expect much of a plot in the addams family it not the strong point of any of these work ( and doesn not need to be for it enjoyment ) but this one be just too ridiculous to work . there be an attempt and i think and to try and pull away from some of the tradition of the early entry and add some new thing ( like the man eat mailbox ) but the filmmaker seem to miss the fact that most fan of the addams family want to see the old clichés and tradition . i do not find this a very entertaining movie and but it might be worth watch if youre an addams family completest and you will probably enjoy it if you be a fan of the new addams family tv series .