The family just got a little stranger.
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
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Comic, classical in form, unpretentious and resolved.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20247/10
As sequels go, this one is really quite good fun. The arrival of baby "Pubert" doesn't exactly thrill "Wednesday" (Christina Ricci) nor "Pugsley" (Jimmy Workman) and they determine that he has to go! Meantime, parents "Morticia" (Anjelica Huston) and "Gomez" (Raul Julia) decide that they need to get him a nanny - and they alight on "Debbie" (Joan Cusack) who immediately sets her sights on "Uncle Fester" (Christopher Lloyd). The children are sent to one of those horrible summer camps run by the kumbaya brigade where they don't quite fit in with the curriculum of the nauseatingly gloopy "Becky" (Christine Baranksi) and her abundance of twee students straight out of "Little House on the Prairie". Scene set for some deliciously dark antics as the kids must escape from the monstrousness of their retreat - causing a maximum of damage and delivering quite a potent assessment of the plight of the native American en route - and deal with their domestic interloper. Speaking of interlopers, it's also clear that nanny has quite a malevolent streak of her own - and "Fester" might soon be destined to join her long list of deceased spouses. As ever, it's Huston who steals the show here - she bare
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Oct 20186/10
Almost thirty years after their first on screen appearance, and more than **fifty** after their creation, The Addams Family proved itself still relevant in the 1990s. _Addams Family Values_ specifically though, might be my favourite part of the whole franchise. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
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Cast
- Anjelica HustonMorticia Addams
- Raúl JuliáGomez Addams
- Christopher LloydUncle Fester
- Joan CusackDebbie Jellinsky
- Christina RicciWednesday Addams
- Carol KaneGranny
- Jimmy WorkmanPugsley Addams
- David KrumholtzJoel Glicker
- Peter MacNicolGary Granger
- Christine BaranskiBecky Martin-Granger
Crew
- Barry SonnenfeldDirector
- Paul RudnickScreenplay
- Donald PetermanDirector of Photography
- Marc ShaimanOriginal Music Composer
- Jim MillerEditor
- Arthur SchmidtEditor
- Scott RudinProducer
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