Addams Family Values (1993)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 10
New, well-developed characters add dimension to this batty satire, creating a comedy much more substantial than the original.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 4
New, well-developed characters add dimension to this batty satire, creating a comedy much more substantial than the original.
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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,
Nov 19, 1993 Wide
Feb 22, 2000
Paramount Home Video
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Cast
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Anjelica Huston
Morticia Addams -
Raul Julia
Gomez Addams -
Christopher Lloyd
Uncle Fester Addams -
Joan Cusack
Debbie Jelinsky -
Christina Ricci
Wednesday Addams -
Carol Kane
Grandma Addams -
Jimmy Workman
Pugsley Addams -
Kaitlyn Hooper & Kri...
Pubert Addams -
Carel Struycken
Lurch the Butler -
David Krumholtz
Joel Glicker -
Christopher Hart
Thing -
Dana Ivey
Margaret -
Peter MacNicol
Gary Granger -
Christine Baranski
Becky Granger -
Mercedes McNab
Amanda Buckman -
Ian Abercrombie
Driver -
Edye Byrde
Mrs. Montgomery -
Lois De Banzie
Delivery Nurse -
Laura Esterman
Cousin Ophelia -
John Franklin
Cousin It -
Peter Graves
Host -
Ryan Holihan
Lumpy Addams -
Nathan Lane
Desk Sergeant -
Darlene Levin
Fauna Amor -
Maureen Sue Levin
Flora Amor -
Douglas Brian Martin
Dexter -
Sam McMurray
Don Buckman -
Cynthia Nixon
Heather -
Zach Phifer
Passport Clerk -
David Hyde Pierce
Delivery Room Doctor -
Vickilyn Reynolds
Foreceps Nurse -
Camille Saviola
Concetta -
Tony Shalhoub
Jorge -
Chris Ellis
Moving Man -
Rick Scarry
Lawyer -
Barry Sonnenfeld
Mr. Glicker -
Charles Busch
Countess Aphasia du ... -
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Cheryl Chase
Pubert -
Monet Mazur
Flirting Woman -
Steven M. Martin
Donald -
Julie Halston
Mrs. Glicker
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (10) | DVD (13)
Uneven as it is, Addams Family Values is considerably more enjoyable than its predecessor. At this rate, if there's a third installment, it'll be a knockout. Or at least a TKO.
Top CriticYou've got to respect a comedy that makes light of arson, torture, and murder in these squeamish times.
Somehow, the new production fails to sustain the creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky visual sweep that held the first film together.
At its best, it's a valentine of venom, sent with mirth and malice aforethought.
Even if the sequel doesn't offer the delight of discovery, the trip back to Chateau Addams is more than the dead end it could have been.
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.
This delightful follow-up to The Addams Family is blessed with an even blacker vein of humour than the original.
Surprise, surprise -- Addams Family Values is more wicked, more warped and more tightly wound than The Addams Family. It's a dark comedy on the edge, way on the edge, and perhaps twice as funny as the original.
Though this sequel probably has more creative energy than its predecessor, the constant stream of one-liners and sight gags is very much hit or miss.
Addams Family Values turns out to be both a trick and a treat.
This sequel to the 1990 picture contains some funny scenes and witty one-liners.
A dark comedy teens will love.
It is a rare feat to make a sequel better than its predecessor but here Sonnenfeld manages to do just that.
That rare thing -- an enjoyable comedy sequel.
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.
The second Addams flick is actually funny, too. And obviously that goes a long way.
I like it when Hollywood apologizes. And I liked this movie. Apology accepted.
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- Amanda Buckman: Hi, I'm Amanda Buckman. Why are you dressed like that?
- Wednesday Addams: : Like what?
- Amanda Buckman: Like you're going to a funeral. Why are you dressed like somebody died?
- Wednesday Addams: Wait.
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- Amanda Buckman: Is that your bathing suit?
- Wednesday Addams: Is that your overbite?
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- 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.
- Pugsley Addams: Our parent's are having a baby, too.
- Wednesday Addams: They had sex.
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I didn't really like the story choice for this film as it centres on 'Fester' again just like the first, maybe they could of used another character or a couple together perhaps, I also never really liked the baby premise as it tends to lean to much towards childish slapstick. The plot line about the black widow 'Debbie Jellinsky' wasn't too bad and did recover some more dark undertones but I think it should of been used with 'Gomez' maybe, plus I didn't really like Joan Cusack's performance at the time, its grown on me since.
I also never liked how the continuity of the film changed so much from the first (cast aside). Mainly the Mansion is in a different location, it looks different on the outside and the interior is vastly different. Some people won't care I know but things like that I notice and they annoy me, it doesn't make sense! why couldn't they keep it at least remotely the same?.
Unfortunately that's what we got, a lot of silly childish slapstick and baby humour all centered around 'Pubert', yes it was still ghoulish and macabre but it really stooped for the kids.
Things got better with 'Pugsley' and 'Wednesday' at their summer camp which introduced us to the allergic Jewish boy 'Joel Glicker' played wonderfully by David Krumholtz. The whole sub plot here was really quite funny and more devilish with the sinister camp leaders played eerily by Peter MacNicol and Christine Baranski with their 'harmony hut' torture hehe its a shame the whole film couldn't keep this tone of black humour throughout.
Again the film does look lovely in terms of costume and sets with more natty quirky visual effects and bizarre camera angles which add to the kookyness. I think this film just went that touch over the top, just a hint off the wall which made it feel a bit too much like a live action cartoon at times. At least the franchises posters still looked really sweet.