Addams Family Values (1993)

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers (WGA):

Charles Addams (characters)
Paul Rudnick (written by)

Release Date:

19 November 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Thriller

Tagline:

The Family Just Got A Little Stranger.

Plot:

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.

Plot Keywords:

Nanny | Uncle Fester | Summer Camp | Love | Baby

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Anjelica Huston	...	Morticia Addams
Raul Julia	...	Gomez Addams
Christopher Lloyd	...	Uncle Fester Addams
Joan Cusack	...	Debbie Jellinsky
Christina Ricci	...	Wednesday Addams
Carol Kane	...	Grandma
Jimmy Workman	...	Pugsley Addams
Kaitlyn Hooper	...	Pubert Addams
Kristen Hooper	...	Pubert Addams
Carel Struycken	...	Lurch
David Krumholtz	...	Joel Glicker
Christopher Hart	...	Thing
Dana Ivey	...	Margaret Addams
Peter MacNicol	...	Gary Granger
Christine Baranski	...	Becky Martin-Granger

Also Known As:

A Família Addams 2 (Portugal) [pt]
A Família Addams II (Brazil) [pt]
Addams Family 2 (Greece) [el]
Addams Family 2. (Hungary) [hu]
Addamsite suguvõsa 2 (Estonia) [et]
Den heliga familjen Addams (Sweden) [sv]
Die Addams Family in verrückter Tradition (Germany) [de]
La famiglia Addams 2 (Italy) [it]
La familia Addams: la tradición continúa (Spain) [es]
Les valeurs de la famille Addams (France) (dubbed version) [fr]
Los locos Addams II (Argentina) [es]
Oikogeneia Addams 2 (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Pri Addamsovih 2 (Slovenia) [sl]
Rodzina Addamsów 2 (Poland) [pl]
The Addams Family 2 (Finland) [fi]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for macabre humor.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | New Zealand:PG | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-10 | Germany:12 | Iceland:LH (video rating) | Iceland:L (original rating) | Ireland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:10 | Peru:14 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Wednesday bitterly quips that "Chippewa" in Camp Chippewa means "orphan". This is pure sarcasm; Chippewa is actually a form of the name Ojibwa (a Native American nation), the original meaning of which is unknown.

Goofs:

Continuity: Debbie is wearing a scarf which disappears and reappears between shots while she is driving.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Wednesday: [giving a funeral to a cat in a shoe-box] Come, sorrow; we welcome thee. Let us join in grief, rejoice in despair, and honor the fortunate dead.
Grandma: Dearly beloved...
Wednesday: [the cat mews and Wednesday shakes the box] Shh! Quiet!
Grandma: [starts piling dirt on the box]

Movie Connections:

References Lassie Come Home (1943)

Soundtrack:

Eat Us

A sequel that lives up to the original!

"Addams Family Values" is *finally* a sequel that lives up to the original. I thought this film was just as good as the first film if not better. I am so glad that the original cast decided to come back for the sequel (the only original cast member that didn't was "Grandmama," but she had the smallest role out of the whole family so it didn't matter too much). Yet again Raul Julia and Christina Ricci turn in great performances as Gomez and Wednesday Addams, respectively, and Joan Cusack gives a great performance also as the homicidal Debbie Jillinsky who marries men for their money and then kills them on their wedding night, but after marrying Fester she just can't seem to get rid of him. The whole part of the script that dealt with Wednesday and Pugsley at summer camp was hilarious. And I thought Mercedes McNab as Amanda, who had a cameo as the girl scout in the first film, was hilarious and good in her role. The only thing I found sort of annoying about this movie was that it centered on Uncle Fester again. But, overall this is a great sarcastic comedy that lives up to it's predecessor.

My Verdict: 7/10