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| Addams Family Values [1993] | ![Addams Family Values [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JNZCVNCRL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2921
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Arabic (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Czech (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Hungarian (Dubbed)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Running Time: 90 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437811431
ASIN: B000059H2D
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1993
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This slightly more cohesive follow-up to The Addams Family has the same director, Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black), but a better story line. Joan Cusack plays a busty gold digger who ingratiates herself into the Addams home and convinces Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) that she wants to marry him. Besides Lloyd, the cast includes Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia, ideal as those Brontean lovers, Morticia and Gomez. But Christina Ricci again walks away with the best moments as the chilly Wednesday Addams, making life miserable for two camp counsellors (Peter MacNicol and Christine Baranski) who want her to fit in with other kids. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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 A GOOD FUN COMEDY October 15, 2007
She's a pleasant young woman who always dresses in light colors and 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 and is after your fortune like her life depends on it.
This is Debbie Jelinsky, and 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 and 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 and no other nanny seems able to handle their recklessness. Of course, no one realizes that she's after Uncle Fester and his money, and 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 practically the same movie (with a plot revolving around Uncle Fester and his fortune which could, under the wrong hands, affect the entire Addams family), redone with a different villainess, is actually 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, and 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 and overshadows Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia who are even better and make one of the screen's best romantic couples of all time (despite their dark makeup).
The last adaptation made for the big screen, Charles Addams' characters would move to the small screen in a new version of the 1960s show and a TV movie, neither very successful.
 Estimable continuation of first part August 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Still funny, nice and amazing. New evil nanny (that hunts for money), new evil child (whom other children don't like), summer camp for Wednesday and Pugsley - hilarious!
First and second part of Addams family is that movie that have to be in home dvd collection... in gold dvd collection, cause it's really Classics of Hollywood.
Even better than the first! June 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I must have watched this film hundreds of times, and 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 challenge 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 actually really touching, and the chemistry between him and 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 23, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 and a gold-digging bombshell who paved the way for future desperate housewives. Watch out for the happy-clappy camp advisers and share in Pugsley and Wednesday's torture! A fantastically dark and comic film for all future outsiders!
Valued High March 20, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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, and gets you cracking up over the most sadistic and stupid things ever. the children are played fantastically well in this. buy it if you like good quality stupid humour.
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