Addams Family Values 4K review by Bobby Blakey
There have been a lot of classic TV series that have made their way onto the big screen, but few have the content to work in both live action and animation. More recently we got to fantastic, animated features focusing on the more classic original property, but before that we got two live action features with The Addams Family in 1991 and the sequel Addams Family Values in 1993. Previously the original film got the 4K treatment and now its time for Addams Family Values to get the 4K treatment as well.
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The Addams Family Values follows Gomez and Morticia who welcome a new addition to the Addams household -- Pubert, their soft, cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester falls hard for voluptuous nanny Debbie Jilinksy, Wednesday and Pugsley discover she's a black-widow murderess who plans to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
Sequels are always hard to capture the same magic as the original film. Thankfully with this film it already had the basis of these great characters to move with, so it helped and while there are some great moments, and the overall film is fun it struggles a bit to really work for me. All the camp stuff is funny, most notably the Thanksgiving play sequence. I love Joan Cusack,
but this story with her and Lloyd’s Uncle Fester just fell flat.
Thankfully the staff with Pubert and Gomez stressing over his change makes up for a lot of the shortcomings. The cast still do a good job and capitalize on the unexpected success of the original. I give them credit either way as it is hard to live up to the original series and they not only did that, they managed to do it twice. I always love anything with the craziness of Pugsley played great by Jimmy Workman, especially when he and Wednesday, played to perfection by Christina Ricci, go head-to-head about anything.
This is a fun sequel that wile doesn’t hit all the notes of the first film still is a fun entry that makes this Addams Family fan smile and a worthy sequel to the franchise. This release not only features the film in 4K for the first time ever, but also new bonus content including commentary and archival interviews, featurettes and more.
Join the altogether kooky film when Addams Family Values hits 4K for the first time ever on October 29th from Paramount Home Entertainment.