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
a_chinn
I hadn't seen this film in years and it holds up quite well. The story involves gold-digging black widow Joan Cusack worming her way into the family by way of seducing Christopher Lloyd's Uncle Fester. Cusack then tricks Gomez and Morticia into thinking Pugsley and Wednesday want to go to summer camp, which results in the film's funniest moments, mainly of which involve super enthusiastic and positive camp counselors Peter MacNicole and Christine Baranski trying to convert the two glum children into Shiny Happy People. My favorite part of their conversion therapy is when they're forced to watch the John Huston film version of "Annie." The film cuts between Pugsley and Wednesday's adventures at camp with Cusack plotting to kill Fester and take the family fortune. Both stories are quite funny, but the camp moments are especially good. The funniest moment of the camp storyline, and probably the film in general, is when the campers perform a re-enactment of the "First Thanksgiving" where all of the blond hair, blue eyed campers play the Pilgrims and the camp misfits play the Indians, when Wednesday, a scene stealing 12-year old Christina Ricci, as Pocahontas and her awkward boyfriend go off-script, turning this syrupy (and historically invacuate) play into a story or revenge for the future evils perpetrated upon Native Americans by these European immigrants, complete with Wednesday's crew burning the village set to the ground and burning Pilgrim leader Mercedes McNab at the stake. Although Riccci clearly steal the film, the rest of the cast is pretty amazing as well, including Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams and Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, Carol Kane as Grandma, and supporting parts for Sam McMurray, Nathan Lane, Cynthia Nixon, David Hyde Piers, Peter Graves, and Tony Shalhoub. The film is not quite a comedy classic, but it's undeniably entertaining and more darkly funny than most Hollywood comedies.
jacobjohntaylor1
This movie is awful. The Addams family (1991) was awful. And this is ever worst. I do not why people like it. It is not funny. It is not a 6.6. It is a 3. The story line is awful. It is not funny, It is sick and awful, The ending is awful. It this has to be one of the worst comedy movies ever. I think comedy is just to easy an more. Was ever hard to do not know?. But people like laughing so mush that no one has work hard at it any more. No one ever says stop you have gone to fare. They just laugh. I can not laugh at something that is not funny. I can not laugh at something that is sick. Who ever wrote this has no talent.
Leofwine_draca
I didn't think much of the original ADDAMS FAMILY film with Angelica Huston and Raul Julia; it's one of those 1990s films which feels really dated when you look back on it, more so than films from previous decades. In fact, I thought it was an unfunny, over-directed mess, so how would this sequel - which brings back the entire cast as well as director Barry Sonnenfeld - hold up? The good news is that this is a definite improvement over the first film. It's actually funny in places. Sonnenfeld was a first time director on THE ADDAMS FAMILY and ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES was his third film, and he already makes the whole thing feel a lot more effortless, without a lot of the gimmicky camera tricks. There are still annoyances, like that darned light shining in Huston's eyes all the while, but this is a step up.The plotting is also more apparent here, and newcomer Joan Cusack makes a real impression as the gold digger come in to seduce Uncle Fester (an increasingly funny Christopher Lloyd). Some of the gags are deliciously dark, especially those involving danger towards baby newcomer Pubert, and the sub-plot involving Wednesday and Pugsley going to summer camp (where they encounter a typically irritating Peter MacNicol) is a hoot.
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