The original cartoons by Charles Addams are wonderful. Dark, subversive and witty. Over the years there have been various attempts to adapt them to TV and films, with varying success. Here is the latest attempt, although this time the focus is on Wednesday Addams.

This really felt far removed from the Addams family origins. Sure the various usual characters make an appearance, it has the gothic trappings etc. But the narrative was more like that in Harry Potter, set in a boarding school, with Wednesday having to solve a series of attacks by a mysterious monster.

The story wasn't really that interesting, the attempts at humour really fell flat. Wasn't the whole point of the original Addams family that they were subverting the typical American family and way of life, where is anything even remotely like that here? If you set it in a school for outcasts, then what is the point? None of the jokes work when everyone is an outcast.

On the plus side it looks great, the actors all fit their roles well and give good performances. I don't think Tim Burton really did a lot here, it doesn't feel like he had much involvement at all.