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.
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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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
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.
It remains perilously slim in the story department, but glides over the thin ice with technical razzle-dazzle and an exceptionally winning cast.
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.
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.
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.
A thinner, airier reunion.
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.
Possibly even better than the first film...
As sequels go, this is passable...
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.
Just as hilariously macabre as its predecessor and has more plot to boot.
I like it when Hollywood apologizes. And I liked this movie. Apology accepted.
As sequels go, this is passable: no more coherent than the episodic first instalment, but with enough sick humour to satisfy the mildly depraved.
Even better than the first!
Bland, rote and not at all ooky enough.
A far funnier movie than the original
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, 2006Super 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, 2007Super Reviewer
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