Aside from the nod to Vic Mizzy's TV theme at the start, and the wildly inchoate "Mamushka" midway (with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), the score gets firmly rooted in classic gothic and melodrama underscores of the 1940s, with grandly passionate orchestral swells just perfect for sweeping entrances down long staircases, grand exits by tragic heroines stage left, and meaningful moments involving tense-jawed heroes discovering their mission or the Madness (or both.) In Shaiman and Sonnenfeld's world of the Addams Family, however, the staircases creak an awful lot, the heroine exiting left is Morticia, who loves tragedy ("Don't torture yourself, Gomez, darling. Bless Marc Shaiman for good instincts and director Barry Sonnenfeld for letting Shaiman run with them, because the end result, at least in the case of the Addams Family films, is wonderful.
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