elainehowie I really liked the first film, but I think this one is even better. It's much more entertaining and more funny than the first, especially all the camp scenes. I think anyone can watch it, even if they haven't seen the first film as this one is much better.

bbewnylorac The writers of Addams Family Values totally 'get' Charles Addams' subversive, black sense of humour, but they also understand how the family satirises mainstream Americans' hypocrisy and superficiality. The scenes and characters in this movie are just like the startlingly witty Addams cartoons. Morticia refusing anaesthesia in childbirth. Grandma helping the kids bury the pet cat alive. Wednesday and Pugsley playing with a guillotine rather than toys. Two performances elevate this movie -- Christina Ricci as Wednesday and Joan Cusack as psychotic nanny Debbie Jellinsky. Ricci is quite other-worldly, has a great grasp of her role and is very focused. She has the best lines and is beautifully directed. Her performance as the girl who creates havoc at the school camp is hilarious. You get the feeling a lot of real life real school camps are as horribly wholesome as the one Wednesday has to endure. As Fester, Christopher Lloyd has a straightforward and very familiar character -- maybe too faithful to the original Fester. But Cusack, as his serial killer love interest Debbie, camps it up, and has enormous fun, with almost as many great lines as Wednesday. Her goal is to kill Fester and take all his money, but in the Addams' nutty universe, that's a perfectly acceptable ambition.

Dom Nickson Spoiler Alert!!! OK I will say this film needed to be a little bit more of the family rather than on Wednesday and Pugsly at camp. I thought the idea of Fester dating a murderer was actually a pretty cool idea and I thought it should of been more about that, rather than have about 65 percent of the movie about the kids going to summer camp. I thought some of the humor in this film was pretty hilarious and I like it for being a sequel. This is seriously better than that Addams Family Reunion! This one is just as dark as the original, only the original had that gem. This is sort of missing that gem where you could laugh at how crazy the whole family is rather than just the kids. I'm glad the whole cast reunited but this sequel is just mediocre and really isn't as entertaining as the original. I'll give it a fair score of 5 out of 10.

SnoopyStyle The Addams Family is back. Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez Addams (Raul Julia) have a new baby. Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) are playing a little too dangerously with the baby. They hire Debby Jellinsky (Joan Cusack) as the new nanny. Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) is immediately enchanted. Only she's actually a serial killer called 'The Black Widow'. Wednesday gets suspicious of her. Debby tricks the family into sending the kids to summer camp. Meanwhile she searches for hidden family treasure and tries to hook her next victim Fester.The kids playing is hilarious. Christina Ricci is especially funny with her dead pan humor. Sending them to summer camp is a stroke of genius. They are fish out of water and that's why it's even funnier. The adults are slightly less funny. They don't have the same fish out of water storyline. It's not a big problem. They're still funny.