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One of my favorite films. Paul Rudnick clearly had a field day writing this screenplay.

As odd as it may seem, this sequel is in many ways superior to its predecessor. The first had to spend much of its time introducing the Family--and, just as importantly, paying (totally justified) homage to Charles Addams' brilliant cartoons and to the old television series. As a result, the plot felt forced, as if it had been the best way the writers could think of to showcase all the source material. In the end, one left the theater feeling that the movie had been 'about' the old sight gags. And then there was the totally shameless product placement...but I digress.

Addams Family Values, on the other hand, gets to be more playful. Because we all know who we're dealing with by now, we don't have to spend nearly so much time introducing the family and their skewed universe. Instead, the characters get more of a chance to develop as they glide blithely through a fuller, more cohesive story.

Paul Rudnick's screenplay is masterful--you'll be quoting from it for weeks. Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston are particularly marvelous as one of the most genuinely loving, passionate couples you've seen in ages. In a weird sort of way.

That dance number! Morticia's ever-present shaft of light! Christina Ricci as the sublime Wednesday! Joan Cusack, unhinged! A split-second cameo by Charles Busch! Oh, rapture. I could go on and on, but I'm running out of superlatives. Suffice it to say that this movie is well worth your time.

This is a film with several excellent performances, but that of Christina "Wednesday" Ricci is near perfect. The reluctant smile outside the "harmony hut" is Oscar material. And Christina as Pocahantas is the very definition of "cute".

Of the others, Joan Cusack also stands out. I doubt anyone else could play the part of "the black widow" quite as well, with just the right mix of sleaze and slapstick. Her deranged laughter alone is worth half the rental fee.

It may not be a classic but it is solid entertainment, with few if any weak passages. Go and see it!

This film is one of those rare gems, a sequel that is as good as, or even better than the original.

Christina Ricci fulfills all the promise that she showed in the first film, as she really steals the film from her more established co-stars.

The scenes at camp produce some of the best one-liners, and it is great to see an American film that is self-mocking about its image concious rich societies. Lines from Ricci like " Is that your overbite?" and "When they woke up all their old noses had grown back!" are superb and will be much loved in the UK, as it is how much of the States is perceived over here.

Also, Amanda in this movie, is also played by the same girl who played the Girl Scout in the first movie.

Add a little bit of romance between Wednesday and another kid at the camp and you have something for everyone in this wonderfully funny and worryingly endearing movie.

Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty) takes a zany script written by Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey, In and Out) and directs with an exhilarating rhythm to tell the tale of Uncle Fester's marriage to a suspicious young nanny (Joan Cusack) and its effect on the Addams family.

All the actors are absolutely wonderful but Cusack steals the movie with a gleefully nasty turn as the murderous Debbie. Her without-peer comedic talent is more strongly showcased here -watch the scene when Debbie sits in a car waiting for a house to explode- than in her award winning role as Kevin Kline's jilted bride in In and Out. Angelica Huston and Raoul Julia are magnetic in dramatic roles but they also have sensational comic timing and their Morticia and Gomez make a memorable dark-humored pair, most notably in the scenes where the sexual innuendo takes a front-row seat. Peter MacNichol (Ally McBeal) and Christine Baranski (The Ref) have a ball as the irritating summer camp counslers and Christina Ricci will probably never top her performance as Wednesday.

It's a guilty pleasure and a fun ride, zipping by in an hour and a half and also features a hilarious cameo by Peter Graves (Airplane). Check it out!

Wednesday and Pugsley go to summer camp whilst Uncle Fester falls in love with the babysitter.

This is a movie carried by the performances of the actors who do an exceptionally good job of delivering all the macabre one-liners and embody their characters perfectly.

The plot is pretty uninspired with Fester yet again under the influence of another female villain looking to rob him blind of his share of the Addams fortune. It gets us from start to finish but is largely forgettable, particularly towards the end. That being said, there is a strong level of satire in the writing, particularly towards the values middle-class, white America, which was quite a prominent topic at the time it was made.

All actors are fabulous. Raul Julia oozes charisma and comic timing. He and Angelica Huston have great chemistry as Gomez and Morticia. Christopher Lloyd can do Fester is his sleep and puts all of his usual mad energy into the role. Carole Kane is obviously having fun as Grandmamma Addams. Joan Cusack is almost scenery chewing as Debbie but does superbly well with the material she has to work with.

For me the real stars are the children. Jimmy Workman is wonderfully deadpan as Pugsley. Mercedes McNab is perfect as snobby Amanda Buckman. David Krumholtz does a Woody Allen turn as the hypochondriac kid in love with Wednesday Addams.

Saving the very best performance till last. Christina Ricci is absolutely brilliant as Wednesday and walks away with the movie. Her quick, dry delivery and mannerisms make the character a classic of modern comedies. If you only watch her scenes alone there is enough entertainment to justify the price of a month's subscription to Netflix. There is a brilliant moment when she lights a match and the Addams theme music plays; I never get tired of watching that.

I watched it with my four year old daughter who enjoyed it but had difficulty with the dark humour. Not as much difficulty as I had explaining it though.

It's just as good, funny and cool as the first movie. The first movie was a bit more fun, but this movie was also very good. I loved all the characters again. I wish I had watched it when I was a kid. All the actors and actresses suited their roles very well. As in the first movie, there is a magnificent dance scene in this movie as well. I would love to have the 3rd movie, but as you know, Raul Julia passed away. The Addams family has become one of my favourites. I will probably watch other related works as well. But I don't know if I will like it as much as these two movies. As always the music is great. But as always, the rap at the end of the movie awful. Rap doesn't suit this movie. Come on !

In 1993 while watching this movie i said yep, the movie belongs to Christina Ricci. And 28 years later it's still arguably the highlight of her career to this very day. Everything she says in this is comedy gold. Anjelica Huston was nominated for a golden globe for this movie yet Ricci inexplicably got snubbed. This movie is also understandably one of the essential performances of Joan Cusack's career. The screenwriter Paul Rudnick obviously relished writing dialogue for Wednesday and Debbie.

Usually I don't like horror comedies and I hate mainstream movies,but "Addams Family Values" completely cracked me up.It was so immensely enjoyable and funny as hell!Especially the first Thanksgiving Day performance,where Wednesday Addams(Christina Ricci)as a Pocahontas,and other Indians took a revenge on American colonists-I almost cried with laughter during that scene!I wonder what Americans think about it?As for Christina Ricci,she simply steals the show in this one!I'm looking forward to see this talented,young actress in more movies.The other actors are also excellent,and the film is filled with wonderful touches of black humour.Highly recommended.

I absolutely loved the first movie. I bought this two days ago, and I was really impressed, because this is a really funny movie. it is possibly better than the first but only just. If there are any flaws, they are minor, but why is the rating for this movie so low? 6.2? It is much better than that! I can name other great movies that have fallen victim to low ratings. The humour was wonderful. Black humour suits the Addams Family perfectly. As for the acting, it was superb. Christina Ricci tops them all as Wednesday, but that doesn't mean that the others weren't good either. Raul Julia and Angelica Huston are note perfect as Gomez and Morticia. To be honest, I think that Gomez is Julia's best role. Christopher Lloyd was born to play Fester, just as entertaining as he was in Back To The Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Jimmy Workman was also really good, and the underrated actress Joan Cusack took me completely by surprise as Debbie. That baby was cute too. If there was one minor flaw, it would be that you don't see much of Cousin It and Margaret. As I'm probably not able to write a review for the first film, what I've said for this film, applies pretty much also for that too. I give this a 9/10, same with the first, but avoid the New Addams Family and unless you're a Tim Curry fan, avoid Addams Family Reunion also. 9/10. Bethany Cox

I never was a fan of the animated series so i couldn't have liked this movie too much. But i was in a good mood for a dark comedy so i decided to watch. Unfortunately it was just as i expected: dumb. I can't understand how people could appreciate so much a movie like this... that's a mistery. Some gags were good and funny, but nothing more. And Fester is played superbly by Lloyd. These are the only good points. Except that, a morbid ride inside a family you'd never wanna meet. Vote: 3.5 out of 10.

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.

I'm a big fan of the Addams family franchise and I thought they sequel was fun and quirky. While not as great as the original it's got the same feel and has all the things that you love about the Addams family. The cast makes all the difference. No one could play the parts better than the actors/actresses. Morticia and Gomez's romance is epic and never has there ever been a better actress to play Wednesday. This film may be from the 90's but it holds up over time. No remakes are needed when a movie is already a classic. If you are new to watching the Addams family movies from the 90's, you should definitely give them a shot. You won't be disappointed.

Addams movies are dark yet very comedic this movie is also very good comedy. It lightens your mood and Indulges you in laughter. Acting is Good and direction is also good. Screenplay is engaging.

Entertaining positive message about family values wrapped in an explosive 94 minutes of fun. Great stuff! Especially the segment on Thanksgiving play at the summer camp - going to replace my family's Thanksgiving tradition of watching Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special with this excellent must-watch film. Great directing, excellent performance by the actors. Dazzling practical effects that still hold up today. This wonderful film might just be the perfect treatment material for family therapy sessions.

Just the title of this movie tells you that "family values" are going to be trashed. It plays up evil, as opposed to goodness, but most of it is strictly to get laughs. In all, it's a funny sequel to the first Adams Family film, very inventive and slightly more entertaining than the first film.

The special effects aren't the only highlight of this comedy. You expect that from this kind of story, but I was pleasantly surprised how much the sound added to the entertainment, especially n the first half of the film.

The first half is better all-around because the second half has touches of mean- spiritedness entering the picture, not just humor. The message that evil is cool and wholesomeness is stupid gets carried away and is overdone. Yes, the camp counselors are very funny but too stupid as the filmmakers use them to bad-mouth good values.

That's basically the message from today's filmmakers: evil is good and good is evil. Wrap that up in a good comedy and your message gets accepted more readily. Too bad they got carried away because this movie has many funny scenes.

This movie is a quit nice comedy but the reason I realy like it is the portrayal of Wednesday Addams by Christina Ricci.The Addams are usualy seen as a foolish monster-like family.Here Wednesday is seen as melancholyc teenager,inteligent,dark,cynic,sadistic and possibly murderous.She makes fools out of everybody else.She would make an excelent horror movie star.She also makes some points.She turns a dull theatrical Thanks-giving play portraying the indians as barbarians,inferior to the British settlers into a protest on behalf of the indians as well as a way to avenge herself from what she went through in the hands of stupid campers.She turned the camps loosers into a fighting squad.Forget about the rest of the Addams,Michael Myers,Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger.Wednesday brings the darkness.Bloody good for a comedy.

This sequel is another one that I would watch regularly growing up. I'm sure that I rented it and then it seemed always be on the movie channels. This is also another one that Jaime had not seen and since I see this as a gateway horror film, it worked to watch in October for me. For this movie here, our synopsis is the Addams family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie (Joan Cusack).

We begin by getting meet our family once there. There is Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and her husband of Gomez (Raul Julia) They are pregnant and she goes into labor to start this one off. Back once again as Gomez's brother of Fester (Christopher Lloyd). We also have the children Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman). This time around Granny is Carol Kane, who is Morticia's mother. Their butler is Lurch (Carel Struycken) and they still have the favorite hand, Thing (Christopher Hart). As I was saying, Morticia goes into labor and informs Gomez. The whole clan goes to the hospital where they have another boy, named Pubert Addams (Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper).

Wednesday and Pugsley have it in their head that they have to kill the baby or one of them will be killed. Granny confirms this was the way in the past. They try a few different ways to take care of the problem, but something thwarts them at every turn. It is decided by Morticia and Gomez to hire a nanny.

After going through a few different candidates, the last one they see is Debbie Jellinsky. She is quirky like they are and they hire her. She starts that night. We learn though while she watches television that she is a Black Widow Killer. She has been married before, a couple times, and has killed her husbands for their money. We see that she has her attention turned to Fester, knowing that he is rich.

Her first order of business is to get Wednesday and Pugsley out of the house. She succeeds in sending them to summer camp. Their parents can't believe this is what they want, but they are convinced by Debbie. They're sent to Camp Chippewa, which is for privileged children and ran by a married couple of Gary (Peter MacNicol) and Becky Martin-Granger (Christine Baranski). Our two Addams kids don't fit in well with the Grangers or the suck-up campers who are led by Amanda Buckman (Mercedes McNab).

With the children out of the way, Debbie sets her sights on Fester. It is quite easy and after their first date they are engaged. They get married soon after and Debbie doesn't wait any time in trying to kill her new husband. On their honeymoon, she drops a stereo into the bathtub with Fester in it. He survives though, being an Addams.

Wednesday and Pugsley try to find a way out of camp. They befriend Joel Glicker (David Krumtholtz) who doesn't fit in at the camp either. He's into serial killer trading cards and gets Debbie's card of the Black Widow Killer. Things are falling apart when she keeps Fester from his family, which causes issues with Pubert. This all needs to be resolved before it is too late.

Now what I have to say here is that the last time I watched this and the original, I liked this one better. Having watched this almost back to back, I'm not so sure. That is not to say that I don't like this one anymore or anything to that effect. This one has already established characters and doing a bit more with them, which I do like. We are focusing more on Fester and the children during their time at camp than the Addams family themselves. Again, not a bad thing, but just what I've noticed.

What I will say though, I love Wednesday and even Pugsley at camp. Wednesday with her crusade against Gary, Becky, Amanda and the rest of the camp is great. Workman isn't as strong an actor as Ricci, so that is part of why I said what I did. They focus on her more, which is smart. I love seeing them trying to break these two along with Joel. It is comical all the way up until the destruction of the camp. I do enjoy this.

Something that didn't work as well this time around was the interactions with Fester and Debbie. The early stuff when we have Morticia, Gomez and the crew, that all worked. When he goes off with her though, it feels rushed and not as interesting when I watched it recently. Going along with that not working as well, Pubert isn't as fun when Wednesday and Pugsley aren't trying to kill him either. That feels morbid to say, but it is the Addams family.

I don't want you to think that I hate this though. The acting is good here still. I think cutting down the time we have with Huston and Julia is part of it, as they're great. Lloyd is still on point with Fester. I don't even hate Cusack as Debbie. She has this weird bubbly personality that she grows tired of as things progress. She is diabolical which is hard to do when dealing with the oddities of the Addams family. Ricci is also good. Workman is fine, but it is hard when his sister in the movie is just more talented. I do like Kane taking over as Granny. The addition of Krumholtz also worked. Struycken and Hart are solid as well. I also liked the cameos by Dana Ivey, MacNicol, Baranski, McNab, Sam McNurray, John Franklin, Cynthia Nixon, Peter Graves, Ian Abercrombie, Tony Shalhoub and Nathan Lane. The acting here is on point for me to be honest.

Then the last things to go into would be the effects, cinematography and the soundtrack. For the former, they are solid. We have some CGI here that isn't great, but this doesn't ruin the movie either. They went practical where they could. It isn't as good as the original, but it is far from bad. The cinematography there was well done and the soundtrack fit for what was needed. If anything I prefer this to the original in that department.

So then in conclusion here, the last time I saw this one, I liked it better than the original one. This doesn't hold up as well for me. I like the expanding of the story, but some of the things they focus on aren't as interesting to me. The acting though is on point. The cinematography is well done. The effects aren't as good here, but the soundtrack works better for me. I'd still say that this is a fun movie that I would recommend, especially if you want to get children into the horror genre. I consider this a horror film, where not everyone does. This is still an above average movie to me.

Addams Family Values is a very poor movie with a brutally paced plot and a few talented cast members that could have done so much netter. The actors do their very best, with Angelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci still shining in their respective roles, however, they were not enough to save this movie, which tries to hard to stand out from the first Addams family that it forgets to even tell a story.

A lot of comments are far too much for a younger audience, such as Wednesday mentioning that her parents have had intercourse, or the antagonist's torture chamber, it is far too frightening for the films target audience.

On the other hand, the humour is also too childish for the most part, such as the Addams new baby causing havoc and the entire camping plot, leaving nothing for adults to have a chuckle at. Loud, obnoxious and not funny, Addams Family Values is too childish for adults, and too adult for kids, better off avoiding this.

The family must rescue their uncle from a new love.

Best Performance: Raul Julia / Worst Performance: Joan Cusack