Poor acting and wooden characters. I know this is the common amongst most Adams family movies but this tries hard to not be so hammy and ends up being exactly that. Perhaps the best performance is from lurch and thing, true to form and difficult to get wrong Katherine Zeta-Jones is especially bad. But then she has never been a great actress.

Overall it's a stretch to make a series from the limited sub story. Would have been better as a movie from Wednesday's perspective.

Young teenagers would probably enjoy this as an intro to the gothic genre. But there are other options which are significantly better.