ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Barry Sonnenfeld
Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd,
Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci, Carol Kane,
Jimmy Workman, Carel Struycken, Peter MacNicol,
Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane, Peter Graves
Morticia goes into labor and has a baby. (It's an Addams!) She and Gomez celebrate by doing a wicked tango. Pugsley and Wednesday don't like the new kid and try to kill him (several times), but then they're dropped off at summer camp, where they don't exactly fit in. Lurch, Cousin Itt and Granny are reduced to cameos, but Thing gets to drive a car (badly), and Uncle Fester falls hard for a gold digger played by Joan Cusack. That's the movie, pretty much, and fans of family-friendly morbidity will like it. The Thanksgiving pageant the kids put on at Camp Chippewa is hilarious, and Ricci as the funereal Wednesday stands out in the ghoulish cast.
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