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Addams Family Values

Addams Family Values (1993)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 9

New, well-developed characters add dimension to this batty satire, creating a comedy much more substantial than the original.

63

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3

New, well-developed characters add dimension to this batty satire, creating a comedy much more substantial than the original.

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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Movie Info

The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any number of ways to kill off their new sibling. This leads Morticia and her husband, Gomez Raul Julia, to hire a nanny (Joan Cusack) to oversee all three children. But the nanny has an agenda of her own,

PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min.

Horror, Comedy

Charles Addams, Paul Rudnick

Feb 22, 2000

Paramount Home Video

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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (9) | DVD (13)

Like the first of the Addams chronicles, this is an essentially lazy movie, too often settling for easy gags and special effects that don't come to any really funny point.

November 21, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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It remains perilously slim in the story department, but glides over the thin ice with technical razzle-dazzle and an exceptionally winning cast.

May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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The comedy has moved into high gear and become one of the funniest, most mean-spirited satirical assaults on sunny American values since the salad days of W.C. Fields.

May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Mr. Sonnenfeld repeats some of the first film's favorite visual stunts without wearing out their welcome, and he sustains much more exuberance than a sequel might be expected to have.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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A few sparkling performances and funny moments save this from being a complete waste of time, but it's not a promising way to start the Thanksgiving/Christmas movie season.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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A thinner, airier reunion.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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This sequel to the 1990 picture contains some funny scenes and witty one-liners.

June 6, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

A dark comedy teens will love.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

It is a rare feat to make a sequel better than its predecessor but here Sonnenfeld manages to do just that.

July 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Possibly even better than the first film...

May 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

As sequels go, this is passable...

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

The good news is that the one-liners are much funnier than the first time, mainly thanks to the increased input of screenwriter Paul Rudnick.

May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The second Addams flick is actually funny, too. And obviously that goes a long way.

October 25, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

Just as hilariously macabre as its predecessor and has more plot to boot.

September 1, 2006 Comment
Reel.com

I like it when Hollywood apologizes. And I liked this movie. Apology accepted.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

As sequels go, this is passable: no more coherent than the episodic first instalment, but with enough sick humour to satisfy the mildly depraved.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Even better than the first!

March 31, 2005 Comment
Film Threat

Bland, rote and not at all ooky enough.

July 21, 2004 Comment
Arizona Daily Star

A far funnier movie than the original

April 30, 2004 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World
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Audience Reviews for Addams Family Values

One of the rare cases of the sequel easily topping the original film. With all characters of the insanely morbid family already established the film simply has fun going from there, throwing out one gag after another. As Fester is meeting the woman of his dreams, the kids are sent to summer camp, where they have to

June 13, 2006
ironclad1609

Super Reviewer

For me this sequel didn't quite hit the mark and I just can't pin point why to be honest. All the cast return so continuity is fine accept for the character of 'Granny' and this time the family have a two new members in the form of 'Baby Pubert' and 'Debbie' the psychopathic widow who goes from one man to the next.I

August 16, 2007
phubbs1

Super Reviewer

    1. Amanda Buckman: Is that your bathing suit?
    2. Wednesday Addams: Is that your overbite?
    – Submitted by Elaine G (8 months ago)
    1. Host: And then Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork and the stork flew down from heaven and left a diamond under a leaf in the cabbage patch and the diamond turned in to a baby.
    2. Pugsley Addams: Our parent's are having a baby, too.
    3. Wednesday Addams: They had sex.
    – Submitted by Lizzy J (12 months ago)

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