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Come join The Addams Family for the most hilarious scarefest of this season or any other! When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead. But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester's uncommonly "normal" behavior. Could this Fester be a fake, part of an evil scheme to raid the Addams fortune?
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This somewhat more cohesive follow-up to The Addams Family has the same director, Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black), but a better story line. Joan Cusack plays a busty gold digger who ingratiates herself into the Addams home and convinces Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) that she wants to marry him. Besides Lloyd, the cast includes Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia, ideal as those Brontëan lovers, Morticia and Gomez. But Christina Ricci again walks away with the best moments as the chilly Wednesday Addams, making life miserable for two camp counselors (Peter MacNicol and Christine Baranski) who want her to fit in with other kids.--Tom Keogh
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 Addams Family Values, 2010-06-03
After the Addams family settles down with Fester (Christopher Lloyd) back in the clan, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez (Raul Julia) find out they're expecting. After the baby arrives, Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) try to kill the baby leaving Morticia and Gomez with no other choice but to find a nanny (Joan Cusack). But the nanny has bigger plans for Fester, which include Wednesday and Pugsley going to summer camp to get them out of the way.
With a movie originally planned to be directed by Tim Burton, Barry Sonnenfeld did a surprisingly amazing job. No one actually expected it to do as well as it did, but it did so well that it warranted a sequel. While The Addams Family always looked good on paper in it's original Charles Addams conjecture, making a movie out of it with a first, third, and second act was not easy to do. Making a sequel to it would be even harder than making an original movie from the comic strip come TV series. So how did they do at making a sequel to the original Addams Family movie?
On the plus side most of the original players are back to have a little fun with the Addams Family name. While I thoroughly enjoyed Grandmama (Judith Malina) from the first movie, in the second movie Taxi vet Carol Kane takes her place taking the role in a much more comedic direction than just a dark direction. On top of that, Raul Julia does an amazing job reprising his role as Gomez for the sequel, in what will become his last great major screen role (I, as well as many others, are trying to forget Street Fighter when I say this). All in all, Addams Family Values carries a bit more of a comedic tone than a darkly comedic tone this time around than the first installment.
Christina Ricci really rules the roost this time around. While the first film was mainly about Fester and his journey to redemption (in a very Addams way), but this time it's more about Wednesday surviving something of a summer boot camp. Most of the players this time around are really just incidental, including Joan Cusack (who does do an amazing job as Fester's finace with much bigger intentions), Peter MacNicol, and Christine Baranski. Ricci, for a young, and inexperienced actress for the most part, does a great job of showing up the adults and playing a character that appears to go from dark to sweet and back again.
More so than it's predecessor, I seriously have to say that this movie has it's flaws. While in the first movie, Fester was endearing, in this movie he's way too over the top. I love Christopher Lloyd, but he really needed to tone it down in this movie. On top of that, the writers seemed to be on a mission to place the characters in awkward positions. While this might have worked in the first film to a certain extent, placing all the characters in awkward positions throughout the second film is just a little too much for one film to completely sustain. It really wears on you after too long.
The Addams Family was enough, in my opinion, the sequel didn't need to happen, and, unfortunately there are even moments when it seems they've run out of ideas (the dance between Gomez and Morticia is fun, but seems almost like a ripoff of the Mamushka dance from the movie before it). If you watch it, watch it for Ricci's brilliant performance and for Raul Julia's last great performance in a role he was born for. My only wish is that it was better, or should I say half as good as it's predecessor.
3/5
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Horror, Comedy, Social Commentary, 2010-03-18
Being perfectly honest, I liked the original series of the 60s. But I didn't like the 1st movie AT ALL.
This 2nd movie was in my opinion a great improvement over the 1st. After the turmoil of Fester's questionable role in part 1, order seems to have been restored, and he is a full fledged Addams now. The movie begins with Morticia giving birth to a new child. Wednesday and Puglsey are of course jealous, and as a result, Gomez and Morticia hire a nanny.
In an interesting and somewhat plausible twist, this nanny has the goal of wooing Fester and then bumping him off for the family fortune. But of course, the Addamses have ways of walking out of what would kill the average person, so this makes it all the more darkly funny. (And with Fester's naive nature, we don't know whether to laugh or pity him.) The original Fester may have decided to: "Just shoot her in the back."
It is interesting that in the movie, we see the hypocrisy of hiding evil in what appears to be normal. (Especially at the summer camp.) How Thanksgiving began as the exploitation of the Native American Indians; having our favorites in a group and making everyone else feel worthless and unwanted; using artificial 'sweetness' to avoid fact and reality; etc.
Overall, the plots and subplots fit together rather well. In a dark, but still touching scenario, Wednesday finds a possible match. (Someone who oddly and by sheer coincidence looks like a young Harry Potter.)
What makes this movie so interesting is like the series, we start by thinking the Addams family is strange. But then we see the cruelty and evils in the 'conventional' characters. To say nothing of hypocrisy.
Without going on for too long, there are some real signature scenes such as the dance between Gomez and Morticia at the restaurant. The wedding is also well done.
My one small complaint is that I wish Lurch could have said (even if just once) his famous line: "You rang?"
Although I didn't like the 1st movie, I really do suggest this 2nd movie.
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 Addams Family Values, 2010-01-22
Pugsley and Wednesday Addams aren't very happy with the new addition to the family: their new baby brother, Pubert. Morticia is restless, and Gomez only wants her to be happy, so he tries to fix everyone's problems by hiring a nanny. The Addams' finally find the perfect nanny in Debbie: a seemingly innocent woman with an impeccable wardrobe and a way with her hands. She charms the family, especially Uncle Fester, who is head-over-heels for her. However, Wednesday and Pugsley see through her sensual facade: Debbie is only after Fester for his money. Before they can rat on her, she has the kids sent off to summer camp, as she and Fester get married. While she tries (several times) to kill Fester and make it look like an accident, Pugsley and Wednesday must battle ever-cheery camp directors and spoiled rich kids to get back to their family and warn them of Debbie's plans. "Addams Family Values" completely cracked me up. It is so immensely enjoyable and funny. This movie is filled with wonderful touches of black humour. Highly recommended.
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More of Morticia and Gomez Please!, 2009-11-01
What I found so charming in the first film was the flirtatious interplay between Gomez and Morticia. I also fell in love with the set of the Addam's mansion exactly as it was....I felt that it was designed not to look like a haunted house, but a stately old manor that had simply been neglected to the point of disrepair. The sequel focuses mainly on Pugsley and Wednesday with a heavy dose of Fester and his new bride. Gomez and Morticia are pushed into the background to the point that they are rarely even seen. I also did not care for the changes made to the set of the house. It was altered to be quite dark and I felt somewhat over the top in its attempt to set the tone of the family atmosphere.
Ahhh...perhaps I am nitpicking, but the Addam's Family is one of my favorite "brain break" films and I find the sets total eye candy and the relationship between Morticia and Gomez a refreshing reminder that even a long marriage can still be flirty and fun! The follow up is ok....but could have been better if they had retained the charm of the first film.
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Wanna join the family?, 2009-02-23
I'll admit that I never watched the television show. I was more of a `Munsters' kid, and so really the only reason I had a desire to see this movie was because I feel that Joan Cusack deserves to be in like every movie (except `Arlington Road', but I've already expressed myself on that matter). So, I decided to check out the first film before delving into this one, you know, to set myself up. Well, twenty minutes into `The Addams Family' I actually turned it off. It bored me and so I wasn't sure if I was going to even try this one. I read a few reviews, all citing this to be better than the original, and so I said `why not' and rented it.
It's not brilliant, but it sure is funny...and Joan Cusack is a riot!
The film focuses in on a money hungry seductress named Debbie Jellinsky who poses as a nanny in order to get after Uncle Fester and his fortune. Young Wednesday Addams seems to be the only one wise to this woman's evil scheme, so Debbie finds a way to get rid of her. Taking care of Fester is harder than Debbie thought (her plan was to marry and then kill him, but he is not your typical husband) so her plans have to be altered slightly in order to get all that she wants out of the man.
The acting is what makes this movie so watchable, especially between Cusack and the brilliant Christina Ricci, who knows how to make Wednesday so eerily remarkable (and OMG the whole camp Thanksgiving play scene is just brilliant). Really, Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia are obsolete when you consider the great supporting characters here. Christopher Lloyd is every type of hilarious even amidst his every type of cliché as Fester, but it is Cusack who steals the show with her menacing creation.
Also, you won't soon forget the hilarious duo that is Christine Baranski and Peter MacNicol as two camp leaders trying desperately to reform young Wednesday Addams.
The jokes for the most part all seem to land very well, especially at the summer camp (where every scene is a hilarious delight), and the film has a nice flow to it. I was a little shocked and the disinterest the film seemed to have with the two presumable leads, Morticia and Gomez, but there is so much to enjoy about the Wednesday and Debbie storylines that one does not miss the Addams family patriarchs.
So pull up and chair and pop the popcorn because this is a movie you'll find yourself really enjoying. It could have been tweaked here or there but for the most part it is a delight, and I'm sure it is even more refreshing for those who actually watched the show.
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