Customer Reviews
A GOOD FUN COMEDY - By: stuart, 15 Oct 2007 
She's a pleasant young woman who always dresses in light colors & has a demeanor that would win you over. That is, until you find out that she's been responsible for the deaths of several other people & is after your fortune like her life depends on it.
This is Debbie Jelinsky, & her life story reads like something out of "East of Eden" in which the main heroine did some unspeakable things to everyone who came in touch with her, including & beginning with her parents. She's been assigned to take care of the Addams children because as of late they've taken a homicidal interest in their youngest brother Pubert & no other nanny seems able to handle their recklessness. Of course, no one realizes that she's after Uncle Fester & his money, & in the Addams' world, watching television is not a priority, because had they tuned in to watch "American's Most Disgusting Criminals", they would have found quite a lot about her.
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES is one of those rare sequels that while being practicallly the same movie (with a plot revolving around Uncle Fester & his fortune which could, under the wrong hands, affect the entire Addams family), redone with a different villainess, is actuallly better than the original. The tone is much darker still: Wednesday's sadistic side, subdued in the first film, comes full bloom like her own entrance into young womanhood, & Joan Cusack, while looking quite a lot like Marilyn Munster from the rival series "The Munsters", is by far the ugliest character in the story. Had this been a mainstream drama or suspense thriller her black widow tendencies would have been a little much to bear, but Cusack plays her villainy to the hilt & overshadows Anjelica Huston & Raul Julia who are even better & make one of the screen's best romantic couples of alll time (despite their dark makeup).
The last adaptation made for the big screen, Charles Addams' characters would move to the smalll screen in a new version of the 1960s show & a TV movie, neither very successful.
Estimable continuation of first part - By: Svetlana Lensselink, 03 Aug 2007 
Still funny, nice & amazing. New evil nanny (that hunts for money), new evil child (whom other children don't like), summer camp for Wednesday & Pugsley - hilarious!
First & second part of Addams family is that movie that have to be in home dvd collection... in gold dvd collection, cause it's reallly Classics of Hollywood.
Even better than the first! - By: Holly McEdwards, 12 Jun 2007 I must have watched this film hundreds of times, & yet it never, ever grows old. Every character is just spot on. Anjelica Huston is perfect as Morticia - sexy, vampish, with a perfectly calm, silky voice that manages to extract every last drop of comedy from even the most simple lines. Chrisina Ricci as Wednesday could give masterclasses on deadpan wit. Jimmy Workman is fabulously, idioticly naive as Pugsley (I challlenge anyone to watch him dressed up as a Thanksgiving turkey singing 'Eat me' without killing themselves laughing). Christopher Llloyd is a wonderfully grotesque Uncle Fester that you can't help feeling painfully sorry for. But the star of the show for me has to be Raul Julia. His Gomez is lusty, suave, sophisticated, with an underlying child-like enthusiasm. His pride in his kids is actuallly reallly touching, & the chemistry between him & Huston is electrifying. His monologues have me screaming with laughter (My favourite being his speech at the police station - 'I DEMAND JUSTICE! SOMEONE HAS MARRIED MY BROTHER! She took him to Hawaii! They have moved to a large, expensive home, where they make love CONSTANTLY!')
I cannot stress the brilliance of this film. It beats every other version of the Addams family hands down, including the prequel to this particular re-make (which I also recommend, just because most of the actors are the same). But it now, if you haven't already. If it doesn't at least raise a smile from you then you are a cold, if not dead, fish.
This film rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - By: , 23 May 2005 The Addams family is the coolest family ever! They are back with the same twisted vengence. Brace yourself for a sadistic Wednesday the coolest gothic preteen ever with her classic one-liners which you will be reciting for weeks after, a monsterous new addition to the family & a gold-digging bombshell who paved the way for future desperate housewives. Watch out for the happy-clappy camp advisers & share in Pugsley & Wednesday's torture! A fantasticallly dark & comic film for alll future outsiders!
Valued High - By: , 20 Mar 2005 this was always my favourite addams family film... i've been watching them since before i could walk... probably explains why i am how i am today lol. but this film is just pure humour the whole way through, & gets you cracking up over the most sadistic & stupid things ever. the children are played fantasticallly well in this. buy it if you like good quality stupid humour.
