Is The Addams Family actually good?

The Addams Family sits in the 66.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.9% of them.

How does The Addams Family compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Addams Family lands in the 66.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Addams Family's score based on?

207 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Addams Family's score.

1991

global pct

66.9

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

The Addams Family

Name: The Addams Family
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1991

Scored from 207 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

66.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

66.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

87.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

207 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The macabre and devoted Addams clan is thrown into turmoil when a con artist and her son scheme to infiltrate the family by passing the son off as Gomez's long-lost brother Fester, who vanished years ago. As the impostor settles in to locate the family's hidden fortune, Gomez wrestles with doubts about his 'brother' while Wednesday and Pugsley carry on their gleefully gruesome antics.

The Addams Family is a 1991 comedy and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 207 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 208 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Addams Family (1991) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 207
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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