Addams Family Values Review

 

Ladies and gents it's been well over a year since I review the 1991 film adaptation of The Addams Family which was also called The Addams Family. As such I feel that it's about time that I take a look at it's 1993 which is honestly something that i've both been planning and putting of doing for some time now however since it's halloween I feel that it's about right that I take a look at a film featuring the creepy family and so here is my review of "Addams Family Values" enjoy the review everyone and on with the review.

The plot of the movie is serial killer infiltrates The Addams Family and plans to steal a fortune by marrying Uncle Fester meanwhile Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to the worst place imaginable summer camp. I honestly feel that the plot of the first film is alot better then the plot of this film just because in this film the story doesn't work nor make sense since any member of The Addams Family would love to get married to a serial killer and the story is very weak at best in my own very humble opinion that is.

Starring in the film is Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams , Raul Julia as Gomez Addams and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester. Also starring in the film is Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams , Christopher Hart as Thing , Carel Struycken as Lurch , Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams , Carol Kane as Grandmama Addams , Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky , Mercedes McNab as Amanda Buckman , David Krumholtz as Joel Glicker , Peter MacNicol as Gary Granger and Christine Baranski as Becky Martin-Granger.

The acting in this film was honestly really good with all of the returning actors ( I couldn't be bothered listing who was returning and who wasn't just incase your wondering why I didn't mention the returning actors when listing who is in this film) turning in solid performances. Hell even the new cast members do a really good job but what lets the new actors down is thew fact that the script gives them nothing to work with which isn't an issue for the returning actors because both we the audience and the actors in question know what there characters are like and what there personalities are but the same cannot be said for the new characters since the script gives those character no personality whatsoever which means the actors do that good of a job and at best can only deliver an ok performance.

There's something really bugged me about this film and it's the fact that the plot line involving Uncle Fester (Played By Back To The Future Star Christopher Lloyd) is almost the exact same plot featuring the exact same character from the first film. Hell the film even copies scenes from the first film which to me makes no sense whatsoever since with a franchise like The Addams Family you can literally do anything you wanted and it would somehow make sense and yet you repeat a plot line and several scenes from much better first movie where's the logic in doing that.

Now there was going to be a third film in this Paramount Pictures live action Addams Family film franchise however due t0o the death of Gomez Addams actor Raul Julia the film was cancelled. I honestly think that it's a shame that we didn't get more films in the Paramount Pictures produced Addams Family live action film series just because these actors and these versions of the characters are so engraved in my head that whenever I picture these characters i'm seeing the actors from either this film or the first film and the same even goes for The Addams Family mansion since it's such a cool looking mansion.

Now this is something that I wondered last year and i'm still confused as to how they brought The Thing to life in either of these two movies. Since it could be CGI but given that these films were made in the very early nineties I doubt that's how they brought the thing to life and so the only thing that I could think if is that they rotoscoped the actor who played The Thing out of each shot except of course for his hand but that would have been very time consuming even back then and so I really have no idea how they brought The Thing to life in either of these two Paramount Pictures released Addams Family films.

Now then since this is an Addams family adaptation that does mean there are some spooky things in this film. With perhaps the spookiest thing and also oddly the funniest thing in the movie is the fact that the film makers have a scene were Wednesday smiles and you just know that when she does that she's thinking how she's going to get revenger on each and every person who bullied her at that camp since yeah both she , Pugsley and all the other outcast kids kind of get bullied at this summer camp.

This film is an hour and thirty four minuets long which in my opinion is a little bit on the long side for a film that has a very weak plot. If anything this film should have been well under an hour and a half including both the opening and ending credits. As a result of this running time and weak plot the film does feel alot longer then it's one hour and thirty four minuet running time which is a shame because there is a decent film to be found here the just needed a better plot to let that good film out but there's not a good plot in this film so there you go.

Now then boys and girls since this is a comedy that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this film. Which I honestly feel are this film's biggest selling point because my god is this film funny almost every single joke told in this film landed for me and had me laughing I honestly cannot thing of a single bad joke in this film and it helps that alot of the film's funniest lines were given to the character of Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci who was born to play the role of Wednesday Addams in these Paramount Pictures live action film adaptations of The Addams Family) who's dark and sadistic humour just works really well.

Overall while I cannot say that this film is better then the 1991 film version of The Addams Family I think that we can all agree it's much better then Addams Family Reunion. Yes this film does have it's problems all of which i've covered in this review those issues to me were apart of the film's charm as such this film gets a 6 out of 10 from me. As for where I got the images that I used in this review I got Them from either the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page or Google Images and I honestly have no clue which one is better to use since there both the same in terms of image quality.