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.

RenT17 The movie opens up with the vast dark sky lit only by a ghastly pale full moon and the howling of a "wolf", but quickly the audience is completely taken out of the dreary mood by discovering that the "wolf" that was howling is actually a short, bald-headed man, screeching on top of a roof. Addams Family Values is the perfect blend of family and dark humor. The film is drenched with verbal and situational irony—as great comedies should be —to heighten the extremities of the Addams family's preferences and tastes. Needless to say, the world is a little to bright and sunny for them. After watching the movie, it will seem a little too bright and sunny to you as well! One of the opening lines of the movie is Morticia Addams (the mother) saying calmly to her husband, "Gomez, I'm going to have a baby, right…now." The movie then jumps into a sequence of rapid montage shots: Morticia being rushed into the hospital with a smirk on her face, Motricia and Gomez talking about how much Morticia is enjoying the pain she is experiencing, and cutting to Wednesday and Pugsley Addams in the waiting room. While a bubbly and excited girl sits across from them in the waiting room, she excitedly explains to them where babies come from. Her story consists of unicorns, fairies, and magic. After listening with a melancholy face, Wednesday responds to the little girl, "our parents had sex." The movie is rated PG-13 for "language, smoking, sensuality and some bloody comic violence." If this movie isn't on your go-to Halloween family movies list, you are missing out on a belly full of laughs!

Eric Stevenson This is a film I've always wanted to see because I grew up watching a lot of movies in the early 1990's that were remakes of old shows and cartoons. I heard this was the best of them all, even better than the original Addams Family movie. I really do like this movie if only because of the awesome casting. I really had no idea Christopher Lloyd was in so many unique roles and he's great here as Uncle Fester. The original movie was good, but I think this one truly gives us more of an ongoing story. It's great to have this movie that further expands on the characters and stories that were established in the original movie. I just love the cool costumes and atmosphere.I'm not much of an "Addams Family" fan, but this certainly got me interested. What makes this movie is Wednesday. She steals every single scene she is in. I just love her deadpan style. I love her delivery and I really do understand the weird relationship she has with the other characters and this odd romance she has with this one kid. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. The snarkiness of this character is so entertaining. We have such a lively cast with Raul Julia in one of his last roles as Gomez. I guess the weakest part might be the story, but with all these great characters, it's hard not to like it. And again, it's authentic to the style of the original show. ***

SnoopyStyle The Addams Family is back. Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez Addams (Raul Julia) have a new baby. Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) are playing a little too dangerously with the baby. They hire Debby Jellinsky (Joan Cusack) as the new nanny. Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) is immediately enchanted. Only she's actually a serial killer called 'The Black Widow'. Wednesday gets suspicious of her. Debby tricks the family into sending the kids to summer camp. Meanwhile she searches for hidden family treasure and tries to hook her next victim Fester.The kids playing is hilarious. Christina Ricci is especially funny with her dead pan humor. Sending them to summer camp is a stroke of genius. They are fish out of water and that's why it's even funnier. The adults are slightly less funny. They don't have the same fish out of water storyline. It's not a big problem. They're still funny.