“Forget Salem, we know how it turned out,” he says as he turns northwest toward the Canadian border. In outlining the family’s itinerary, Gomez says their first stop will be in New England to “pay our respects to the immolated in the witch-haunted city of Salem.” But they aren’t on the road long before Uncle Fester makes an executive decision. So put a witch’s shawl on, let Lurch lug the luggage, and grab a broomstick-with stops in Sleepy Hollow, Miami, the Alamo ( sort of), and more, here is how you can “flit and thither across this great nation” on a creepy, kooky, and all together ooky family road trip ( caution, spoilers ahead).ĭirectional signage in Salem. The first stop on their itinerary is supposed to be Salem, Massachusetts, but Uncle Fester, bewitched by a billboard for Niagara Falls, grabs the wheel and reroutes the camper. The Addamses run into their fair share of detours and disasters on the way to their final destination, “The place on earth where people are the happiest: Death Valley.” It’s unclear in which state the fictional family has their home base-left in the “safe hands” of Morticia’s 102-year-old mother while they hit the road-but I would guess somewhere (cloudy) along the East Coast.Īfter guzzling a quart of motor oil, Fester explains that their steampunk vehicle is a hybrid: “half car, half eyesore.” Thing, a disembodied hand, does most of the driving. The dysfunctional family vacation film is not a new concept-and as any real-life roadtripper knows, the only sure thing about any road trip is to expect the unexpected. Wednesday Addams tells her father that his plan to “bring the Addams family closer than ever before” (both emotionally and physically), is “cruel, even for you.”
Hoping for some quality bonding time, Gomez Addams piles his family-including Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch, Thing, Uncle Fester, and their pet lion, Kitty-into the “old Addams camper.” But not everyone is thrilled.
T he Addams Family 2, a new sequel to the first animated Addams movie, follows the spooky squad as they embark on a cross-country road trip.
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