The Addams were brought to the big screen with Anjelica Huston ( The Grifters) as Morticia, Raul Julia ( Street Fighter) as Gomez, Christopher Lloyd ( Back to the Future) as Uncle Fester, Christina Ricci ( ) as Wednesday, and Carel Struycken ( Men in Black) as Lurch. With an A-list cast, The Addams Family earned one Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design. Suffice it to say that this movie is well worth your time.The first feature film depicting the eccentric family arrived in late 1991. I could go on and on, but I'm running out of superlatives. That dance number! Morticia's ever-present shaft of light! Christina Ricci as the sublime Wednesday! Joan Cusack, unhinged! A split-second cameo by Charles Busch! Oh, rapture. Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston are particularly marvelous as one of the most genuinely loving, passionate couples you've seen in ages. Paul Rudnick's screenplay is masterful-you'll be quoting from it for weeks. Instead, the characters get more of a chance to develop as they glide blithely through a fuller, more cohesive story. Because we all know who we're dealing with by now, we don't have to spend nearly so much time introducing the family and their skewed universe. Addams Family Values, on the other hand, gets to be more playful. And then there was the totally shameless product placement.but I digress. In the end, one left the theater feeling that the movie had been 'about' the old sight gags.

As a result, the plot felt forced, as if it had been the best way the writers could think of to showcase all the source material. The first had to spend much of its time introducing the Family-and, just as importantly, paying (totally justified) homage to Charles Addams' brilliant cartoons and to the old television series.

As odd as it may seem, this sequel is in many ways superior to its predecessor. Paul Rudnick clearly had a field day writing this screenplay.

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