This delightful follow-up to The Addams Family(1991) is blessed with an even blacker vein of humour than the original.
Gomez and Morticia (Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston) have a new baby boy (the mustached Pubert), much to the displeasure of their other jealous children Wednesday and Pugsley (Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman), while Fester has fallen under the spell of the youngster’s scheming black widow husband-killing nanny, Debbie (Joan Cusack).
In order to get the suspicious kids out of her way, she convinces the Addams to send Wednesday and Pugsley off to a WASPy summer camp (run by the psychotically enthusiastic Peter MacNicol and Christine Baranski).
Once again, the playing is faultless, but it is Ricci who effortlessly steals the show, whether trying to bump off her new sibling or creating havoc at the all-American summer camp.
The sets are wonderful, the cinematography exquisite and Barry Sonnenfeld’s direction is exhilarating.
Morticia Addams
Anjelica Huston Gomez Addams
Raul Julia Uncle Fester
Christopher Lloyd Debbie Jellinsky
Joan Cusack Wednesday Addams
Christina Ricci Granny
Carol Kane Pugsley Addams
Jimmy Workman Pubert Addams
Kristin Hooper Lurch
Carel Struycken Joel Glicker
David Krumholtz Thing
Christopher Hart Margaret
Dana Ivey Gary Granger
Peter MacNicol Becky Granger
Christine Baranski Amanda Buckman
Mercedes McNab Don Buckman
Sam McMurray Ellen Buckman
Harriet Sansom Harris Mrs Glicker
Julie Halston Mr Glicker
Barry Sonnenfeld Pubert Addams
Kaitlyn Hooper
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Barry Sonnenfeld
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