Yeah, I watched it on NBC’s site yesterday during lunch and I didn’t think it was that bad, but I really wasn’t impressed by it either.
And yeah, this was a reinterpretation and everything, but Grandpa seemed awfully malevolent even when he was talking about it being “just nature.” Going after that scout master seemed pretty awful any way you look at it.
There were a few good things here and there, Jerry and the kid had some good interaction together. If they do pick this up, I can see them not needing so much special effects so I don’t think that would be an issue. I presume that since the dragon was already created in CGI, they can add him when needed (plus he’s invisible a lot).
My main complaint was that I thought they should have pushed the comedy a little more. I’m talking maybe one or two flat out jokes, instead of it just being humorous situations. And surely there’s a way to make the multiple falls down stairs more funny.
I think not knowing they were strange was part of the camp. The stupidity and obliviousness of the original Munster was all setup for the jokes.
I didn’t like so much that Grandpa out and out transformed like that. He’s a tinkerer, and should work more in the background. Setting up the date with the counselor was great, but going after him later was stupid, even if it was all a setup for making Marilyn accidentally kill them.
I’m not so sure, BTW, that she’s as messed up as you guys seem to think she is. I think she’s just Addams-family-esque. She thinks she’s normal, but growing up as she did means she’s really rather macabre. I didn’t take what happened in the past to be anything other than the fact that she was born normal and stayed that way–hence why they thought Eddie would do so, too. I thought her mother just killed herself because of having a normal kid. Though maybe accidental killing is just Marilyn’s specialty.
Finally got around to watching. It was better than I expected, but I won’t lose any sleep about it not being picked up. It’s certainly the least interesting of Fuller’s shows. I’d love to see the darker, weirder version I believe Fuller pitched before it was toned down to make it, presumably, marketable.
The friends I watched with were put off by the CGI; I found it charming. It was so low-fi as to approach cartoony; it was to “real” cinematic CGI what the props and costumes in the original Munsters were to “real” monster movies.
I decided after watching it on Hulu that I’d already reached my lifetime limit for that after a single episode, so I’m not shocked it didn’t get picked up.