Addams Family Double Feature Review

Addams Family Double Feature Review                                                                                          10-13-19

Warning! Both of these movies are rated PG-13, so single-digit kids shouldn’t be reading this!

Based on the cartoon characters created by Charles Addams, The Addams Family is about a creepy and peculiar family known as the Addams. Father Gomez is sad that he hasn’t seen his brother Fester in years. Gomez’s lawyer Tully Alford is having financial troubles, but when he discovers that the Addams secretly have a stash of doubloons in their house, he proposes that Gordon, adopted son of Abigail Craven (whom Tully owes money to), to dress up as Fester to steal the Addams’s stash. However, the more Gordon spends time with the Addams, the more he slowly attaches to them and their culture.

While the sets are nice and the acting is top-notch, the story is too confusing to follow.

In Addams Family Values, Morticia gives birth to a healthy baby boy named Pubert. However, Wednesday and Pugsley are jealous of Pubert, so they try to kill him. Gomez and Morticia of course don’t approve of this, so they hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of the kids, and she suggests that Wednesday and Pugsley should go to summer camp. Little does anyone know that Debbie is secretly a serial killer, and she plans on wooing and marrying Fester just so she can kill him!

Addams Family Values is one of the few sequels that improves upon the original with a superior story, life-like sets and backgrounds, and talented acting from A-list actors.

If I were to complain about one thing, I would say that some of the returning characters, like Thing the disembodied hand, don’t have as much screen time as in the original film. However, I still enjoyed Addams Family Values more than I thought.

Wednesday Addams unfortunately has to participate in a play inspired by the first Thanksgiving, despite it being the summer. She plays the role of Pocahontas, who didn't even appear at the first Thanksgiving.

Unfortunately, the film tanked at the box-office: Addams Family Values had to compete against The Nightmare before Christmas, Schindler's List, and Mrs. Doubtfire. Let's hope that Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan's Addams Family does better at the box-office. It's main competition won't be Frozen 2, but Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil.

Addams Family rating- 3 stars out of 5.

Addams Family Values rating- 3.45 stars out of 5.
For those parents at home reading this review, here are links to reviews of both Addams Family movies below.
Addams Family
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-addams-family-1991
Addams Family Values
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/addams-family-values