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Addams Family Values

Addams Family Values (1993)

November. 19,1993
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6.8
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PG-13
| Fantasy Comedy Family

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

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Linbeymusol
1993/11/19

Wonderful character development!

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Listonixio
1993/11/20

Fresh and Exciting

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Acensbart
1993/11/21

Excellent but underrated film

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Bumpy Chip
1993/11/22

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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a_chinn
1993/11/23

I hadn't seen this film in years and it holds up quite well. The story involves gold-digging black widow Joan Cusack worming her way into the family by way of seducing Christopher Lloyd's Uncle Fester. Cusack then tricks Gomez and Morticia into thinking Pugsley and Wednesday want to go to summer camp, which results in the film's funniest moments, mainly of which involve super enthusiastic and positive camp counselors Peter MacNicole and Christine Baranski trying to convert the two glum children into Shiny Happy People. My favorite part of their conversion therapy is when they're forced to watch the John Huston film version of "Annie." The film cuts between Pugsley and Wednesday's adventures at camp with Cusack plotting to kill Fester and take the family fortune. Both stories are quite funny, but the camp moments are especially good. The funniest moment of the camp storyline, and probably the film in general, is when the campers perform a re-enactment of the "First Thanksgiving" where all of the blond hair, blue eyed campers play the Pilgrims and the camp misfits play the Indians, when Wednesday, a scene stealing 12-year old Christina Ricci, as Pocahontas and her awkward boyfriend go off-script, turning this syrupy (and historically invacuate) play into a story or revenge for the future evils perpetrated upon Native Americans by these European immigrants, complete with Wednesday's crew burning the village set to the ground and burning Pilgrim leader Mercedes McNab at the stake. Although Riccci clearly steal the film, the rest of the cast is pretty amazing as well, including Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams and Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, Carol Kane as Grandma, and supporting parts for Sam McMurray, Nathan Lane, Cynthia Nixon, David Hyde Piers, Peter Graves, and Tony Shalhoub. The film is not quite a comedy classic, but it's undeniably entertaining and more darkly funny than most Hollywood comedies.

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OneEightNine Media
1993/11/24

The sequel is better than the original. Whoa, I'm not sure if I ever said that before ever but yeah, this is better than the first one but not by a large margin. What the director did was take the opportunity to sort of do a reboot. He got rid of the magical stuff, let the Addams family members interact with normal people more often, the grandmother seemed funnier and they gave us more of Anjelica Huston. I literally just finished watching the two films back to back however I started with this one because I thought it was going to be the weaker of the two. Surprised to be wrong but sort of paid the price a tad later on in my little marathon / experience / experiment. Anyway, this film is fun. Not hilarious but it has d a few moments here and there.

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bbewnylorac
1993/11/25

The writers of Addams Family Values totally 'get' Charles Addams' subversive, black sense of humour, but they also understand how the family satirises mainstream Americans' hypocrisy and superficiality. The scenes and characters in this movie are just like the startlingly witty Addams cartoons. Morticia refusing anaesthesia in childbirth. Grandma helping the kids bury the pet cat alive. Wednesday and Pugsley playing with a guillotine rather than toys. Two performances elevate this movie -- Christina Ricci as Wednesday and Joan Cusack as psychotic nanny Debbie Jellinsky. Ricci is quite other-worldly, has a great grasp of her role and is very focused. She has the best lines and is beautifully directed. Her performance as the girl who creates havoc at the school camp is hilarious. You get the feeling a lot of real life real school camps are as horribly wholesome as the one Wednesday has to endure. As Fester, Christopher Lloyd has a straightforward and very familiar character -- maybe too faithful to the original Fester. But Cusack, as his serial killer love interest Debbie, camps it up, and has enormous fun, with almost as many great lines as Wednesday. Her goal is to kill Fester and take all his money, but in the Addams' nutty universe, that's a perfectly acceptable ambition.

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crash21
1993/11/26

The movie does get a little slow at times, but I call "Addams Family Values" very funny. First, with the kids trying to torture and kill the new born baby, then when they hire the nanny to secure the kids (which tortures them in positive ways).My favorite part is when the crazy nanny sends Wednesday and Pugsley Addams to summer camp. Right there is when the movie gets really funny and very amusing. First with the Addams kids negative affections, smart mouthing, and annoying the camp's employees and kids that enjoy the camp. Their experience in the camp's Harmony Hut was something I thought was especially amusing. I also liked it when the Addams help take down the whole place with other miserable camp members.The only thing I didn't like was that they didn't get the Indian/Native-American concept right in the camp's play. Although this could have been meant to be incorrect, simply because in the beginning of the thanksgiving play's scene Wednesday Addams gives a rather nice speech about what will happen to and be taken from the natives in the coming future.Other than a little confusion in here, I think the "Addams Family Values" is quite amusing, and even better than the first movie "The Addams Family" that was made.

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