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Addams Family Values (1993)

Addams Family Values — Written by Asmodai on 02.06.2009

This second part of the Addams Family movie keeps most of the castmembers as the first movie, and adds to it with with Joan Cusack.
The plot goes as follows: When Gomez and Morticia Adams get their third kid, a moustache-wearing boy called Pubert, they decide that they will need a nanny to keep the children from killing each other. When all the candidates have left the house screaming, they give up hope, but then Debbie arrives. This blonde, fashionable woman charms the Addamses into hiring her, and the minute uncle Fester lays eyes upon her, he is in love.
When Debbie convinces Gomez and Morticia that the children desperately want to go to summer camp, she has free reign to romance Fester. After a short romance, Debbie proposes to Fester, who says yes. They get married, and go on a honeymoon to Hawaii, where Debbie tries to kill Fester for the first time.
The children, in the mean time, are horrified by the people and cheerful attitude at the summercamp, and when they hear about Fester’s marriage they try to escape, together with a boy that grows close to Wednesday. When they are caught, they are not punished, but forced to watch cheery Disney movies, which pushes them over the edge.
They decide to change the camp’s traditional Thanksgiving-play a bit to their hand. When the play is performed, they capture the camp’s leaders and girlie-girls, set fire to the camp, and Wednesday and Pugsley leave for home.
Fester has at this time moved in with Debbie, who demands that he breaks all contacts with Gomez, Morticia and the rest of the family. Upon hearing about this, Gomez goes into a depression and baby Pubert becomes possessed: his hair turns blonde, he likes stories that have a good ending and he stops breathing fire.
When Debbie tries to kill Fester again, and, upon failing once more, confesses to him that he will be the forth husband she killed for the money, Fester is saved by Thing, who drives him back to the Addams mansion, where he is forgiven by the family. But then Debbie arrives, who manages to capture the Addams family, and rigs a device to electrocute the whole family. When she pulls the switch, baby Pubert intervenes and she ends up being electrocuted herself.
A while later on the birthday party for Pubert Fester meets the new nanny of cousin Itt, a bald, big woman with black eyes, and falls in love again; Wednesday and her new boyfriend talk about the future, with Wednesday explaining that the best way to kill a man is to scare him to death, after which the boy is grabbed by a hand coming from a grave…

This movie, while not as funny as the first part, has some great moments. The humor is great, and even though most of the punchlines could be seen coming from miles away, they are still funny. The acting of Juliez (Gomez) is great as ever, and the part as Wednesday (together with the one in the first movie), may be amongst Ricci’s finest.
This movie is great fun to watch, it is filled with funny moments, has good acting and does not even look very bad, a recommendation worthy!

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