'Wednesday' teen dramedy, 'Willow' captures charm

'Wednesday' on Netflix

"Wednesday Addams attends Hogwarts" is such a stupidly obvious idea for the next young adult horror dramedy franchise that I'm amazed it wasn't rolled out sooner.

Ditto hiring Tim Burton as one of the streaming series' directors and executive producers, especially when you remember that this is Burton's first real involvement with the Addams Family, beyond a planned stop-motion film that was announced in 2010 but never developed.

Both 1991's "The Addams Family" and 1993's "Addams Family Values" were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, who went on to direct all three Will Smith...