Movie Review: "The Addams Family Values" 11/19/93

This is a movie review for "The Addams Family Values", released November 19, 1993. Again, I have seen parts of this movie but never sat down to watch the whole thing until Halloween 2017.



Trailer

Cast

Anjelica Huston - Morticia Addams

Raul Julia                - Gomez Addams

Christopher Lloyd - Uncle Fester Addams

Joan Cusack            - Debbie Jellinsky

Judith Malina          - Granny

Carel Struycken - Lurch

Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams

Jimmy Workman - Pugsley Addams

Plot
Gomez and Morticia have a new baby (Pubert) and they decide that they need to get a babysitter. Of course, the babysitter is a blond black-widow named Debbie that has her claws set on Fester. Can the family survive Debbie, especially when she gets Wednesday and Pugsley sent to summer camp?





Rating Criteria

0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.


3/5 - The idea that the kids want to kill their baby brother really bugs me. And of course, the blond bimbo gold-digger splitting the family is effed up. When Gomez breaks down mentally because the child is a blond?! I get it but still... I am glad that she ended how she did but this is still not the Addams Family that I loved from the television show. The show was dark and funny, not so serious.




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Word count: 161 words. 2018: 842.