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Addams Family ValuesSonnenfeld's screen version of Charles Addams' long-running comic-strip in 'The New Yorker', The Addams Family, was so successful that a sequel was inevitable.
Unusually for a sequel, Addams Family Values is possibly even better than the first film, possibly because, now the (exceedingly, lovably odd) characters are established, Sonnenfeld and screenwriter Paul Rudnick can get on with telling stories.
This time around there's romance in the air, between Uncle Fester (Lloyd), and Debbie Jellinsky, who is employed by the Addams as nanny (Cusack) to new baby Pubert (who takes after his dad right down to the pencil mustache). However, ulterior motives become clear - she's after the family fortune.
As before, it's the macabre humour which shines through, most of it arising from the Addams' children's trip to summer camp, and the curiously touching relationship between Gomez and Morticia (the perfectly cast Julia and Huston). Christina Ricci - still aged only 13 - is inevitably wonderful in her part as the deadpan sadist Wednesday Addams.
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