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Great movie!! I remember watching this movie as a child and now I get to share it with my kids.
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Sure, the first of the two theatrical ADDAMS FAMILY movies from Warner Bros. had a lot going for it. I was wicked in love with Wednsday Addams when it first came out, and the story was pretty amusing.
No. 2 though ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES was way better. I think that in the first outing the actors tried to potray their characters as they were portayed in the old TV shows. In the second however, they were more comfortable breathing their own life into these roles. Especially Christina Ricci, there was a whole lot more depth to her role as the beautiful Wednsday Addams, which in turn proved her abilities as a serious actress early on... by the way I was about ten years old when this came out, so it was ok for me to think that Wednsday Addams was hot. My love for Christina Ricci has matured along with her movies (when she did CASPER she was in sort of an awkward stage then, so was I, no biggie.. by the time Buffalo 66 came out she had blossomed QUITE nicely and has only gotten cuter with age) however, there was something about that Wednsday Addams... you just knew she was going to grow up to be a lot like her mother, Morticia. This is a wicked sexy role for Anjelica Huston by the way. She delivers a dead pan Morticia spot on. I love it. Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester is a central part of the plot in this, as he was in the first. This time around, he marries a wicked psyco chick, played by my baby's mother (just kidding- she is played by JOAN CUSACK, another love of mine) who plans on killing him to get to the Addams Family fortune. I can really relate to Uncle Fester in this one, when he is forced to move away from home and all that stuff.
The kids go to Summer camp, and lots of nutty stuff happens there. Lurch says "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" a couple of times, and Thing, It, and that freaky old lady are in the picture too. OH YEAH! And the baby. He's new.
The overall casting job these WB ADDAMS FAMILY movies couldn't be any better. Much like their version od DENNIS THE MENACE which was released that same year, high price actors mixed with some new talent and old familiar faces, but PERFECT in these movies, and their abilities to ensemble make these movies what they are.
The later WB straight to video sequels sucked, and the actors in those were piss poor. This is coming from someone who ALWAYS liked The ADDAMS FAMILY too. I'd reccomend just about everything, the old black and white show was GREAT, the old movies were good, the cartoon series were all great, and if you really want to go way back, look up some of the one panel comic strip collections of Charles Addams, those are a real good time too, the original stuff.
This one here though is one of my favorite rainy day movies, you should definately check it out.
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Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez (Raul Julia) have a new baby - Pubert. But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) are Addamses, so they start trying to kill their new brother. Their parents hire a nanny for them - Debbie Jilinsky (Joan Cusack). But she's not a nanny; she has killed a few rich husbands to get their money. But now the money is over, she sends Wednesday and Pugsley to summer camp and marries Fester (Christopher Lloyd) to get his fortune. But killing an Addams is too difficult...
The movie is fantastic, but in my opinion the 1st part was much better.
The actors are really wonderful, especially Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez and Christopher Lloyd as Fester. Christina Ricci also made a very outstanding performance as Wednesday.
The rest of cast:
Dana Ivey as Margaret
Carel Struycken as Lurch
Carol Kane as Grandma
John Franklin as Cousin Itt
Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams
Christopher Hart as Thing
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This movie is good family fun for kids over 5. Not as good as the original movie and certinaly not as good as the TV show. But good enough to entertain the kids
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This 2nd film is a solid outing, but it falls short of the first in many areas. Certainly worth seeing, but nothing to rush out and buy.
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