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  DVD Verdict Review - Addams Family Values
The Addams Family began in the 1930s as a comic in The New Yorker drawn by Charles Addams.
A new cast was introduced: Raul Julia (Kiss Of The Spider Woman) as Gomez, the suave leader of the clan; Anjelica Huston (The Grifters) as Gomez's wife Morticia; Christina Ricci (The Opposite Of Sex) as daughter Wednesday; and Christopher Lloyd (the Back To The Future trilogy) as Gomez's oafish brother Fester ("It means 'to rot'!").
The Addams family is the embodiment of the unfulfilled desire—not just in me, but in many people—to fall out of lockstep with the shiny happy people and enjoy being nasty.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/addamsfamv.php   (1544 words)

  
 Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Addams Family Values"
The Addams Family was a so-so 90s "classic TV series to movie" transition that was the popular wave.
The secret to the Addams Family is not that they're dark and macabre to shock you into laughing; they could've easily started throwing gooey brains and severed body parts around for cheap laughs, but refrained from being crass.
The Addams Family was the brainchild of Charles Addams (1912-1988).
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 DVDFILE.COM: Addam's Family Values review
Addams Family Values picks up nine months later, with the birth of their mustachioed infant, Pubert.
When compared to the new DVD of the original disc of The Addams Family, I was surprised to find that Values doesn't look as good as the first one.
Addams Family Values was originally presented theatrically in Dolby Digital and that soundtrack is now available for the first time at home on this new DVD.
www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/addamsfamilyvalues.htm   (646 words)

  
 Addams Family Values - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However the fact he is an Addams makes this quite impossible and also makes it impossible for Uncle Fester to realize that she isn't being killed.
When Debbie blows Uncle Fester up in an attempt to kill him, only resulting in him being quite happy, she chases him to the Addams house where she ties the family to electric chairs including the children, with the exception of Pubert, who is cured as Fester has returned.
The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993)
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 Addams Family Values Movie Review at Hollywood Video
The Addams clan, those wacky, offbeat psychopaths who made their debut on TV in the '60s and first graced the big screen in 1991, have never been in better form.
In The Addams Family and its 1993 follow-up, Addams Family Values, director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Get Shorty) combines stellar casting, witty scripts, and top-notch cinematography and special effects in his cauldron and bubbles up a pair of darkly funny, stylish classics.
The first movie introduces the viewer to the core Addams family — passionate patriarch Gomez (the late, lamented Raul Julia); statuesque matriarch Morticia (Anjelica Huston); and their children, stoic Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and grim, pale Wednesday (a very young Christina Ricci).
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 The Addams Family Values
But "The Addams Family"'s roots are in an era of American television that was less concerned about self-contained worlds than of poking fun at the whitebread nuclear family represented in tv sitcoms.
The woman's adopted son (Christopher Lloyd) infiltrates the Addams by claiming to be the long-lost Uncle Fester, who is legal heir to the estate.
The Addams may not be the sunniest family around, but they are a portrait of a tight-knit, proud, and loving family.
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 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES
Unfortunately, as preoccupied with death as the Addams’ seem to be, killing Fester proves to be virtually impossible… although, Debbie keeps trying.
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES is even more entertaining than the original because it showcases Christina Ricci whose brilliant deadpan delivery of every ghoulishly good line virtually stole the show in the first movie.
Flesh tones are what you would expect; the Addams family maintains their unnatural pallor, while everyone else appears fairly healthy.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/addams-family-values-dvd.htm   (710 words)

  
 The Addams Family & Addams Family Values
Based on Charles Addams' beloved cartoons and following the success of the hit TV series, The Addams Family is a visual funhouse, packed with plenty of treats, tricks and turns by director Barry Sonnenfeld.
Addams Family Values appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
The Addams Family is definitely worth a rental, and you may want to add it to your collection if you enjoy this kind of broad humor; Addams Family Values merits a rental at best.
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 DVD Times - Addams Family Values   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Addams Family Values is one of the relatively few sequels to be better than the original film.
A gleeful assault on the values held dear by Middle America, it manages to be both bitchily funny and genuinely heart-warming without being glutinously sentimental.
The subversion of traditional values is pretty obvious throughout but it's done with a nice line in dark humour - the various attempts to kill the baby are especially amusing - and the celebration of all that is unpleasant is strangely heartening.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4899   (1234 words)

  
 Deep Discount DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The charmingly creepy Addams family (based on characters originally created by the morbid Charles Addams) have two new additions, mustachioed baby Pubert and sunny nanny Debbie Jellinsky.
While Debbie (wonderfully played by Joan Cusack) charms the adults of the family, particularly Uncle Fester, the children discover that she is actually a serial killer called the Black Widow.
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES will be most enjoyed by those with a taste for flip gallows humor.
www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemID=PRD328067   (183 words)

  
 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Addams Family Values | Deseret Morning News Web edition
Those who were unable to get into the demented humor of the first "Addams Family" film — or for that matter, "Beetlejuice" or "The Nightmare Before Christmas" — might as well pass this one by as well.
Her hilarious deadpan demeanor is put to very good use as she delivers a variety of witty wisecracks, mostly comebacks to the comments of others.
In some ways, "Addams Family Values" is little more than a string of jokes with an amazingly high success ratio.
deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,27,00.html   (360 words)

  
 Addams Family Values [1993] - 2.4.1
The "Addams" family saga continues with two plot developments: Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) have a baby, and somebody's after the family fortune, again.
Kids torch the scenery of a play, and tie a girl to a stake, threatening to set her on fire; they then tie two adults to a rotisserie spit and put it over an open fire.
Animals also suffer at the hands of the Addams children: a cat is buried alive -- we hear it meow -- and an eagle is shot out of the sky with an arrow.
www.kids-in-mind.com /a/addams_family_values_1993__241.htm   (432 words)

  
 eBay - Product Info - eBay - VHS: Addams Family Values   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The charmingly creepy Addams family (based on characters originally created by the morbid Charles Addams) have...
After The Addams Family went on to become a popular movie, it wasn t surprising when a sequel was made.
Addams Family Values was released in 1993 and worked well as a sequel to the first movie.
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 Addams Family Values - Computer Store
I was wicked in love with Wednsday Addams when it first came out, and the story was pretty amusing.
I think that in the first outing the actors tried to potray their characters as they were portayed in the old TV shows.
Especially Christina Ricci, there was a whole lot more depth to her role as the beautiful Wednsday Addams, which in turn proved her abilities as a serious actress early on...
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 Parent Previews: Addams Family Values
The Addams Family began it's very early life as a print cartoon in the upscale New Yorker magazine.
In the same vein as Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, the Addams like things gloomy and are happiest when life is on the brink of death.
The adult situations are problem enough, but with all the concern in the world about physical abuse to children, you may not find the scenes of a newborn baby about to fall to its death funny.
movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=96   (285 words)

  
 'Addams Family Values'
For those who enjoyed the original "The Addams Family," the flavor is still there.
The Addams infant provokes bitter (almost murderous) rivalry from Pubert's sibs, Wednesday (the wonderful Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman).
So, while Debbie works her charms on Fester, the Addams kids suffer the touchy-feely zone, full of snooty, upper-income kids and eerily dippy counselors (Peter MacNicol and Christine Baranski).
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/addamsfamilyvaluespg13howe_a0b011.htm   (438 words)

  
 Morticia's Morgue | The Addams Family and Charles Addams
The Addams Family Reunion movie Daryl Hannah and Tim Curry was (obviously) not as good as the first two movies, although it's always kind of fun to watch the Addams' vs. the Yuppies.
The Addams Family is a site in the Netherlands with some screengrabs from the new and original series
The second edition of "The Addams Chronicles" by Stephen Cox is a must have.
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 The Lurch Files Addams Family Values Movie page
Although Addams Family Values brought in more total money, (48 million in the U.S.) it actually made less due to the budget.
Debbie notices Festers' attempt at flirting and decides he is welathy..err..worthy enough to marry.
What the Family doesn't know however is that Debbie is a psychotic killer known as "The Black Widow".
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 AbsoluteNow.com: Addams Family Values
Perhaps it is out in the middle of nowhere because nobody could stand to move next to the Addams, or perhaps it was once a thriving neighborhood before the darling Addams children were let loose on it.
Where the two Addams Family films are their strongest is in the quick-punch jokes.
To keep peace in the family Gomez and Morticia hire a nanny who turns out to be a Black Widow murderess (Joan Cusack) out to marry and kill Uncle Fester for his fortune.
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 BBC - Films - review - Addams Family Values (1993)
The first "Addams Family" movie had the virtue of being a superior adaptation of the original TV series.
Silly stuff indeed but the relish of the cast, the tight editing and lavish feel to this film prove too much fun to go trying to find fault with such inconsequential details like plot.
"Addams Family Values" is on BBC1 at 9.35pm, Wednesday 20th September.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/09/19/addams_family_values_review.shtml   (381 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Addams Family Values [1993]: DVD: Anjelica Huston,Raul Julia,Christopher Lloyd,Christina Ricci,Jimmy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Maybe the odd Charles Addams cartoon is worthy of a chuckle, but the sit-coms - I think there were like three different ones - always seemed laboured, a bit too much with the kooky, spooky, 'wackiness'.
This second film in the resurrected (!) Addams Family sequence is every bit as good as the first, and about a million times better than the recent 'Addams Family Reunion', which boasts very few of the original film's stars.
Sadly, this is partly due to 'Addams Family Values' being one of the last films Raul Julia made before he passed away.
www.amazon.co.uk /Addams-Family-Values-Anjelica-Huston/dp/B000059H2D   (1060 words)

  
 Addams Family Values for Genesis - MobyGames
The evil Debbie Jelinksi is harming the Addams family once again...
She has kidnapped Baby Pubert, and Uncle Fester is the one who must find him and to bring him back to his loving family.
"Addams Family Values" is an action adventure game with slight RPG elements (you gain more hit points while proceeding in the game, can upgrade your equipment and special attacks).
www.mobygames.com /game/genesis/addams-family-values   (188 words)

  
 Addams Family Values - Marc Shaiman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
After the eminently amusing Addams Family, which was good due to impeccible casting, fabulously over the top designs and plenty of tasteless jokes.
The most welcome return are the few fleeting glimpses of Shaiman's original Rota-esque family theme, which is fair more ravishing and suitable than Vic Mizzy's more famous television theme (which makes a few appearances), but Mizzy's does serve the comedic side well.
The film was chaotic and incoherent and so is the score; darting from one idea to another, it does at least have the good sense to remain coherent within tracks.
www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/addamsfamilyvalues.htm   (371 words)

  
 DVD Review: Addams Family Values
One of the rare sequels that actually equals the output of the first film, "Addams Family Values" shows the material still has enough not yet mined for a second picture - it works.
I wouldn't think of doing another one of these pictures, but "Addams Family Values" manages to be successful, mainly due to the return of director Barry Sonnenfeld, who gets the tone and humor exactly right.
There are occasional effective uses of surround, and the score by Marc Shaiman (who also did the score for the first "Addams Family" film as well as last year's "South Park" movie) sounds excellent.
www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/addamsvaluesdvd.html   (465 words)

  
 Movie Info for Addams Family Values on MSN Movies
When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any number of ways to kill off their new sibling.
But the nanny has an agenda of her own, packing the Addams children off to a horrid parody of summer camp and setting out to seduce Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd), all with the goal of getting her hands on the Addams family fortune.
It was followed by 1999's direct-to-video Addams Family Reunion, with Darryl Hannah and Tim Curry replacing Huston and the late Julia.
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 The Unofficial Addams Family Web Site (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
There may be something of the "New Addams Family" which Fox produced for the then Fox Family Channel, which is now owned by Disney/ABC.
The only previous official release of Addams Family episodes was the first 24 on VHS video tape and LaserDisc.
As of April 3rd The Tee and Charles Addams Foundation gained complete control of The Addams Family intellectual property.
www.addamsfamily.com.cob-web.org:8888   (658 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Addams Family Values: DVD: Christine Baranski,Joan Cusack,Julie Halston,Harriet Sansom Harris,Christopher ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Having established the unique world of the Addams' in the first movie, the writers and producers go for more sight gags and cheap laughs in the sequel--not that there's anything wrong with that.
Especially when the cheap laughs are so good and plentiful--and as with Addams I, the women steal the show.
The Addams Family are back this time with a new member Pubert son of Gomez and Morticia.
www.amazon.com /Addams-Family-Values-Anjelica-Huston/dp/6305744823   (1426 words)

  
 Addams Family Values
On any day of the week, you could expect a newborn baby to be nurtured and loved by his older sister.
Pubert is the latest addition to the Addams Family and to prevent sibling rivalry Wednesday and Pugsley are shipped off to summer camp and a nanny is hired.
This is the dress Christina wears throughout the movie as Wednesday Addams.
www.frontiernet.net /~rcowart/addamsfamily.html   (104 words)

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