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The 1990s was a resounding welcome for Charles' Addams Addams Family adaptation. While there was a small resurgence with the franchise during the 1970s with the animated cartoon of 1973 and the special Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977), the 1990s was where it took off. With the strong push for advertising, The Addams Family (1991) got all kinds of merchandise made after the movie like toys, video games and its own animated spinoff. Then came the sequel Addams Family Values (1993) which went onward with the same cast. Unfortunately, with Raul Julia passing shortly after, any adaptation made after would either run the risk of continuing with a different lead or starting over entirely. For this particular entry, it's possible that the latter was what was chosen. It's not as good but not as awful as some say it is.

The story here is about Gomez Addams (Tim Curry) inviting his parents Grandpa Addams (Kevin McCarthy) and Grandma Addams (Estelle Harris) over one night. However, the Addams' realize that the grandparents have forgotten their bizarre antics that the current generation finds to be normal. So in order to get them more familiar with others Gomez decides to have a family reunion. Unbeknownst to them, the reunion they're having is with a family tree spelt Adams, with one "d". The story was written by Rob Kerchner who would later pen Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999) and Scott Sandin. Directing this feature is David Payne, someone who probably takes this feature as their best known credit and has also worked with the previously mentioned writers on a few occasions. Payne has other credits but likely not well known.

Despite this feature not being a direct sequel to the previous two films, it does standalone pretty average for better or worse. The story is definitely a nice change in focus as the last two films for some reason had very strong attention put on Uncle Fester. This time the narrative just involves the family in general. It's fun for once to see the family interacting as a group as opposed to a select couple of characters being swindled by some antagonist who thinks they're above the rest. Together the spooky family is introduced to Phillip Adams (Ed Begley Jr.) and Melinda Adams (Heidi Lenhart) who are looking to take their father's fortune Walter Adams (Ray Walston). All around, the Adams family is very stuck up wants nothing to do with the kooky Addams family. The aspect that doesn't work with the story is the acting.

Normally the Addams family are the ones who are eccentric and look crazy to everyone else. But for some reason the Adams family members are the ones who are over the top and chewing up the scenery around them. There's Dolores Adams (Diane Delano) who has a movement and expression for every situation which feels like too much is going on. Meanwhile the Addams family actors look expressionless by comparison. Unfortunately, while Tim Curry is an excellent actor he's not the best choice for Gomez Addams since his voice is so iconic. Daryl Hannah as Morticia doesn't have the same charisma as the previous actresses before her even if she ended up playing in both Kill Bill films. Apparently the only actors to return from the last two films were Carel Struycken as Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.

Jerry Messing as Pugsley and Patrick Thomas as the new Uncle Fester didn't go on to do much after this either. As for Nicole Fugere, she plays the new Wednesday but would only go on to continue her role in the spinoff show and end there. Visually speaking even for a TV movie sequel the effects aren't that bad. Thing as a severed hand still blends in pretty well and the practical creature effects look fine. The camerawork though could've been better with Christian Sebaldt taking credit. There's a lot of close up wide angle shots which become obnoxious. The music however was okay despite not getting any kind of release. Scored by Amotz Plessner, the sound of the movie sounds similar in style to that of Marc Shaiman's score to the previous two films.

This is probably the least appreciated Addams Family movie but it's not awful. The acting is somewhat reversed between main and supporting characters and the cinematography isn't the best. However, the story is different, effects aren't bad and the music sounds appropriate for the franchise.

As it has been raised many times over, the Dragon Ball Z franchise has largely been unorganized in it's way of film release and the chronology of its stories. In order to make them actually fit within the episode seasons, there would have had to be some serious down time between stories. The only film that actually fit in was The Dead Zone (1989). Other than this, all other entries have some aspect about them that don't allow them to fit into the shows chronology. Why were there these difference between the films and show? Hard to say if it was creative differences or just misalignment. Either way, the order films now have completely detached themselves at this point where maybe each film follows a different timeline. It's a bit hard to determine.

This entry is about another Earth invasion, this time by the villain name of Lord Slug (Brice Armstrong). Slug carries a secret trait no one from the Z fighter's side has ever heard about which is what makes him so strong. For whatever reason, Slug now finds planet Earth his choice for the taking and it's up to Goku (Sean Schemmel) and friends to stop him. This entry was originally directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto, who had directed episodes of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, as well as Bardock - The Father of Goku (1990). The screenplay was penned by Takao Koyama who also worked on the same credits as well as the Dead Zone (1989), The World's Strongest (1990) and The Tree of Might (1990). Perhaps Koyama is just making his own separate storyline.

Arguably, this particular entry is a little worse than the past few. One, despite Slug having the secret trait that gets revealed later on, he's not that smart of a villain nor is he taken down with much effort either. It's sad being that the only other villain similar to him was King Piccolo. Lord Slug's appearance is literally for random reasons. And as discussed, timeline information doesn't go together here with the show. The other characters like Piccolo (Chris Sabat), Gohan (Stephanie Nadolny), Krillin (Sonny Strait) and various smaller supporting characters show up too. Yet with Piccolo involved, means it would fall sometime before season one, if it were to be there. Either way, with certain characters around, it just throws off the whole fitting in part. The English dub writers Neil Bligh and John Burgmeier weren't able to modify much of the story either.

And these were the guys who had dubbed plenty of the previous films too. The voice acting is one thing that can't be denied. All the voice actors from the English dub who have partaken in the anime are on point with their delivery. And at minimum, this is definitely a trait that is needed for the feature to even be remotely watchable. Brice Armstrong as Lord Slug fits in pretty well too. Fans of the show could probably figure out that he was actually the narrator for all the original Dragon Ball anime before Kyle Herbert took over as the Dragon Ball Z narrator. The animation is solid as well for the feature as usual. The way every scene is colored and moved looks great and gives the nostalgic feel to it.

The same could be said for the action sequences that were animated. The fight scenes are well choreographed and are fun to watch playout. For whatever reason, this film also needed two cinematographers, Masaru Sakanishi and Motoi Takahashi respectively. For Sakanishi, this was their first Dragon Ball Z film, as was Takahashi. However, Takahashi had worked on all three original Sailor Moon features. Still it did not feel necessary, as the music too. The English dub to this feature is awful in its soundtrack selection. Instead of sticking with Shunsuke Kikuchi's musical score, the team felt having thirteen heavy metal songs layered throughout by various groups like Dust for Life, Disturbed, Breaking Point and so on were better. Heavy metal is fine if used the right way, but this franchise never needed that. It just sounds like garbage.

Acting and animation are the features that thankfully remain unchanged, but the rest is hard to accept. The villain had potential but goes nowhere, the continuity is still all over the place and the music is terrible in terms of placement.

The body is a funny and interesting masterpiece of nature. The fact that mankind has still not been able to crack every single secret that there is to know about the human body is insane. Bodies themselves have been the focus of movies forever. From films like John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) to Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man (1999), various life forms including our own want a piece of the human body. Whether that be for good or bad reasons. Bodily humor has also been the focus of many comedies too, but not one that can be thought of that goes about it in this manner. The weird thing is, one would have thought perhaps this would have gotten a sequel film, but it literally showed up and left as quickly as it arrived.

The narrative is about Frank (Bill Murray), a single down on his luck father to his daughter Shane (Elena Franklin). He tries to make good on being a decent father but fails because of his poor habits. Adding to that is Bob (Chris Elliot) who only enables his behavior. One day though, after eating food that fell on the ground applying the "ten second rule" does he begin to find out it's not a great rule. Regrouping down inside the "city" of Frank, audiences find Frank's underappreciated white blood cell cop Osmosis Jones (Chris Rock) under orders by the lazy Mayor Phlegmming (William Shatner). Arriving in Frank's system is the deadly Thrax (Laurence Fishburne) who looks to make a new record killing. Thinking his ailments is just a cold, Frank takes a pill containing Drixonol where Osmosis meets his temporary partner Drix (David Hyde Pierce).

Conceptually, the story is very creative. Because Frank's body is essentially a government run entity by its own sentient organisms, it makes sense that it would operate like a country, state and/or city. White blood cells are the cops and bacteria are seen as illegal immigrants because they technically are foreign. It all makes logical sense. Blood vessels are the travel highways while power lines represent the nervous system. Writing the script was Marc Hyman who would later pen Meet the Fockers (2004). Not sure if he was the one who came up with the inventive puns and thoughts on it, but it's clever. Directing the feature was Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the same duo who headed Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996) and Shallow Hal (2001). Surely they had some input as well.

The voice acting is all commendable. Chris Rock as Osmosis Jones is a fun lead, he doesn't come across annoying. Just loud and enthusiastic. David Hyde Pierce as Drix plays a good foil to Osmosis Jones since he is very scientific and literal. Brandy Norwood plays Leah, the secretary to Mayor Phlegmming of which Jones has a crush for. Even William Shatner is pretty entertaining as the Mayor. The most surprising and entertaining talent though is Laurence Fishburne as Thrax. Normally Fishburne doesn't play bad characters, so to hear him voice one is different and fun. Sadly, that's kind of where the fun ends. For whatever reason, the live-action segments on the outside focusing on the human cast just isn't that interesting. It's not that the actors aren't good but they just don't have much to do and it kind just comes off as boring. Seeing Bill Murray just be a bum the whole time isn't much to look at.

The same could be said for the live-action camerawork shot by Mark Irwin. This is also a shame because Irwin has worked on good films too like Scanners (1981), The Fly (1986), The Blob (1988) and RoboCop 2 (1990). Jumping back though, the animation is colorful and zippy. The characters are all very expressive and fluid in their movements making them far more fun to watch move about. Not to mention again the way the environment is set up to resemble the real world but in a human body. Finally, the film score composed by Randy Edelman wasn't too bad either despite no official score has been released which is sad. There doesn't seem to be main title but the music is appropriate for the settings put to screen and they do have emotional substance when required.

The overall story is cool to watch while being creative as it gets inside the body. For some reason though the real world just isn't as entertaining to watch. All acting is fine, the animated parts grab your attention and the music works too.