bluzman

The story was cute and several of the actors gave pretty good performances as the voices of the characters. Chloë Grace Moretz gave the best performance as Wednesday...too bad her character looked like Casper the Friendly Ghost doing an imitation of a bowling pin.Charlize Theron was pretty good as Mortica. I am not sure she would ever wear any except black, but I think she was the best animation. The rest were mostly decently acted while fair to poorly animated. Overall, I could easily forget about it.

I am a fan of this type of story and have never stuck a nickel or lower on a big name writer/movie, until now. The story was sound, but the movie lacked in action and depth because it was easier to talk, talk, talk through the animation.

I saw the animation as a failure, in the same way the first attempt at combining animation and live action in the Lord of the Rings failed about 30 years ago. Only Tron managed to pull it more or less off.

I could have dealt with it in shorter segments, like the way Tarantino got around the pedophilia issue in Kill Bill Vol. 2.

I would have much preferred live action, but the price of the real life stars would probably have broke the budget.

I get tired of people over-analyzing movies. Just go and enjoy it for what it is...a movie. Quit trying to compare it to actual history...it doesn't present itself as history recreated like Galdiator, Titianic or King Arthur. And quit whining because it doesn't compare...they didn't say it was supposed to be REAL history. Overall, it is a fun time at a time when most of the movies in the theaters were not even within consideration for us to attend. It gave us a lot of action with decent special effects. And the characters were enjoyable and realistic, although they were underdeveloped, which seems to be the norm in Hollywood these days. They just drop someone in a say he used to...once did or met...has special knowledge...but never back any of it up with a little character development. Still, I would like to meet the good guys in this show. The seemed real and likable. Finally, I got some decent laughs as well with the liberal amount of hum-our that was sprinkle throughout the movie.