Even slightly deepened, a comedy becomes funnier: What makes Gomez tick, for instance? What does Fester really do when he's lonely? When does Morticia feel un-serene? But there I go expecting stuff again. Screenwriter Paul Rudnick earns easy money with the jokes but he doesn't strain himself to provide anything else like, say, character. An appalled Morticia confronts the villainess: "You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell," she says. When Debbie cons Fester (Christopher Lloyd) into marriage, she forces her romantically enslaved husband to cut all ties with his relatives. Ah, but what one-liners they are - verbal dry ice from bluish lips. Like the first movie (but even more so) the plot is mere conduit for Addams one-liners. Meanwhile, scheming nanny-cum-black widow Debbie Jelinsky (played with Cruella deviousness by Joan Cusack) slinks her way into seedy Uncle Fester's heart, eyes firmly fixed on his wallet. The Addams infant provokes bitter (almost murderous) rivalry from Pubert's sibs, Wednesday (the wonderful Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman).
This week, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) have an addition to their family: a mustachioed newborn called Pubert. The latest feels like a 30-minute episode stretched even longer.
The first movie already felt like an overextended, one-hour pilot. For those who enjoyed the original "The Addams Family," the flavor is still there.
Children under 13 should be accompanied by a parentĪs with most sequels, "Addams Family Values" is a thinner, airier reunion.
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