The Addams Family / Addams Family Values
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•MPAA Rating: PG-13•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 193 minutes
The Addams Family
Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) brings his distinctly cartoonish sensibility to this feature film version of the old Charles Addams comic strip. Anjelica Huston was born to play Morticia Addams, matriarch of the ghoulish Addams clan, while the late Raul Julia is a very agreeable, lusty Gomez. But it’s Christina Ricci who arguably steals the show as their
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good spooky fun…,
(This is a one disk set with both movies on the same disk). The movies are great, but the only thing that bothered me is, they are not in wide-screen format as promised in the advertisements. It even says it’s supposed to be wide screen on the disk itself, but its not. But the movies are the same great movies…just have to get over the full-screen formatting.
The original Addams family movie is the return of Uncle Fester who lost at sea in the bermuda triangle and finds his way home with amnesia. Though the Addams are finally reunited they are separated again with the help of a greedy real-estate agent, lone shark, and less then friendly Judge. Forced out of the comfort of their mansion the Addams must learn to live with the outside world until Fester starts to remember life with his family and they band together to fight to get everything they had back to the way it was. Every Cast Member plays their roll wonderfully enough to make you forget they’re not the original cast members to the TV show.
The Addams Family Values is a sequel to the first movie with the original cast members (family members anyway…new evil characters are introduced). It starts off with Mortisha giving birth to a baby boy. With the new baby in the house Mortisha and Gomes decide to hire a nanny (Joan Cusack) who turns out to be a demented murder that agrees to marry Fester and tries to tear him apart from his family to steal the Addams Family fortune.
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|Thank You, Thing,
The movie Addam’s Family is a little darker than the orginal TV bunch. More sinister — less innocent in intent.
Wonderful campy performances by the entire cast, especially Wednesday. The camp sequences in _Addams Family Values_ alone is worth the price of admission.
Very witty screenplays — I pretty much laughed my way through both of these.
Two thumbs up.
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|Two good movies, one disk, one low price!,
These are both enjoyable movies. The first one is my favorite of the two, but the second is still highly enjoyable and worth having on this disk. All the major roles are perfectly cast as far as I’m concerned. The special effects are fantastic for their time. I’ve always wondered how they did the effects for Thing. If the movie were more recent It’d be done as a CG character, but I’m pretty sure this was before they would have been able to do it that way.
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