The most compelling thing about the Addams family members is that while they were very different from the norm, each in individual, unique ways, they were each confident in who they were. This shows them as awkward and uncertain, with silliness, and the soundtrack is at extreme odds with the aesthetic. This movie should get trash canned, imho.
Exactly. They were very much a family unit, Gomez and Morticia were passionately in love and not afraid to show it. Both were actively involved with raising their kids. They were secure in who they are and the things they like. It was everyone else around them who was awkward ad uncertain. That was the joke.