EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Smoreni Zmaj This is a movie that made Christina Ricci famous, well deserved. The cast is the same as in the first film, but with the better scenario they got the chance to really show their skills, and Kristina is really fantastic. The scene in which Wednesday is trying to shape a smile is one of the creepiest things ever shown in a comedy and, for me, the first association to this film. In my opinion, the only weak point of the film is the performance of Joan Cusack, which seems too artificial. Regardless of whether it is a bad acting or she leaves that impression deliberately, I do not like it. Maybe it is not objectively better than its predecessor, but it certainly is much more fun.7/10

FilmBuff1994 Addams Family Values is a very poor movie with a brutally paced plot and a few talented cast members that could have done so much netter. The actors do their very best, with Angelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci still shining in their respective roles, however, they were not enough to save this movie, which tries to hard to stand out from the first Addams family that it forgets to even tell a story. A lot of comments are far too much for a younger audience, such as Wednesday mentioning that her parents have had intercourse, or the antagonist's torture chamber, it is far too frightening for the films target audience. On the other hand, the humour is also too childish for the most part, such as the Addams new baby causing havoc and the entire camping plot, leaving nothing for adults to have a chuckle at. Loud, obnoxious and not funny, Addams Family Values is too childish for adults, and too adult for kids, better off avoiding this. The family must rescue their uncle from a new love. Best Performance: Raul Julia / Worst Performance: Joan Cusack

bbewnylorac The writers of Addams Family Values totally 'get' Charles Addams' subversive, black sense of humour, but they also understand how the family satirises mainstream Americans' hypocrisy and superficiality. The scenes and characters in this movie are just like the startlingly witty Addams cartoons. Morticia refusing anaesthesia in childbirth. Grandma helping the kids bury the pet cat alive. Wednesday and Pugsley playing with a guillotine rather than toys. Two performances elevate this movie -- Christina Ricci as Wednesday and Joan Cusack as psychotic nanny Debbie Jellinsky. Ricci is quite other-worldly, has a great grasp of her role and is very focused. She has the best lines and is beautifully directed. Her performance as the girl who creates havoc at the school camp is hilarious. You get the feeling a lot of real life real school camps are as horribly wholesome as the one Wednesday has to endure. As Fester, Christopher Lloyd has a straightforward and very familiar character -- maybe too faithful to the original Fester. But Cusack, as his serial killer love interest Debbie, camps it up, and has enormous fun, with almost as many great lines as Wednesday. Her goal is to kill Fester and take all his money, but in the Addams' nutty universe, that's a perfectly acceptable ambition.

Dom Nickson Spoiler Alert!!! OK I will say this film needed to be a little bit more of the family rather than on Wednesday and Pugsly at camp. I thought the idea of Fester dating a murderer was actually a pretty cool idea and I thought it should of been more about that, rather than have about 65 percent of the movie about the kids going to summer camp. I thought some of the humor in this film was pretty hilarious and I like it for being a sequel. This is seriously better than that Addams Family Reunion! This one is just as dark as the original, only the original had that gem. This is sort of missing that gem where you could laugh at how crazy the whole family is rather than just the kids. I'm glad the whole cast reunited but this sequel is just mediocre and really isn't as entertaining as the original. I'll give it a fair score of 5 out of 10.