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Release Date:
19 November 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Family Just Got A Little Stranger. more
Plot:
A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love. full summary | add synopsis
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Nanny
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Uncle Fester
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Summer Camp
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Love
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Baby
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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9 nominations
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Darkly funny and enjoyable sequel albeit lacking anything that new (if that's a bad thing)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Anjelica Huston | ... | Morticia Addams |
 | Raul Julia | ... | Gomez Addams |
 | Christopher Lloyd | ... | Uncle Fester Addams |
 | Joan Cusack | ... | Debbie Jellinsky |
 | Christina Ricci | ... | Wednesday Addams |
 | Carol Kane | ... | Grandma |
 | Jimmy Workman | ... | Pugsley Addams |
| Kaitlyn Hooper | ... | Pubert Addams |
| Kristen Hooper | ... | Pubert Addams |
 | Carel Struycken | ... | Lurch |
 | David Krumholtz | ... | Joel Glicker |
| Christopher Hart | ... | Thing |
 | Dana Ivey | ... | Margaret Addams |
 | Peter MacNicol | ... | Gary Granger |
 | Christine Baranski | ... | Becky Martin-Granger |
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Rated PG-13 for macabre humor.
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
New Zealand:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-10 |
Germany:12 |
Iceland:LH (video rating) |
Iceland:L (original rating) |
Ireland:12 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:10 |
Peru:14 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG-13
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Michael Jackson was signed on to write and perform a song for the film's soundtrack and to promote it with a video. Although he was able to finish the song, contractual difficulties coupled with the child molestation allegations made against Jackson resulted in the song being dropped from the soundtrack, and the video was never filmed. The song, "Is It Scary," was later included on Jackson's 1997 'Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix' album and was also used in his short film '_Ghosts (1997/I)_'.
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Continuity: Despite being stitched on as part of his makeover, Fester's ginger wig vanishes shortly afterwards.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Wednesday: [giving a funeral to a cat in a shoe-box] Come, sorrow; we welcome thee. Let us join in grief, rejoice in despair, and honor the fortunate dead.
Grandma: Dearly beloved...
Wednesday: [the cat mews and Wednesday shakes the box] Shh! Quiet!
Grandma: [starts piling dirt on the box]
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Wednesday: [giving a funeral to a cat in a shoe-box] Come, sorrow; we welcome thee. Let us join in grief, rejoice in despair, and honor the fortunate dead.
Grandma: Dearly beloved...
Wednesday: [the cat mews and Wednesday shakes the box] Shh! Quiet!
Grandma: [starts piling dirt on the box]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Good Eats: Apple Family Values (#2.3)" (2000)
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Theme
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The Addams family just got a little stranger with the addition of a new baby boy. However with the new arrival, Wednesday and Pugsley become isolated and try to kill little Pubert. With all this squabbling, Morticia sounds gets tired and seeks help from a nanny. After many failures, they settle on the sparky Debbie – although Wednesday has her suspicions. These suspicions seem to be justified whenever Debbie convinces Morticia and Gomez to send their children away to a summer camp and then marry Uncle Fester – a man so repulsive that love cannot be the reason.
Many films wheel out sequels by simply adding something to the original film; often it is a child and often it doesn't work. However with this film the child is not the focus but a plot device for bringing in a nanny who in turn splits the plot. The result is a solid plot that basically retreads the mood and humour of the original film which, for fans, is not a bad thing at all. For me I enjoy the dark world of the modern Addams family and felt that the plot did enough to be more than just the frame for it. The silly dark humour works well and it produced many laughs while also achieving a consistent humorous tone. I can understand why some people don't like it because it is the sort of thing you really need to "get" and I "got" it; also slightly more uptight parents may not like the examples set their kids in the film (but f**k 'em if they can't take a joke).
The cast are a major factor in the humour working. Although Fester is the focus of the film, Julia is still a real joy and his chemistry with Huston is really enjoyable and they make their lines work well. Lloyd is a perfect Fester and he is consistently funny. Cusack makes the most of her role and she fits in well with the tone of the film. Ricci yet again steals the film and her deadpan delivery is funny across the whole film. The support cast have lots of cameos and smaller roles and it is fun without being distracting to watch the faces including Kane, MacNicol, Pierce, Shalhoub, Lane and Sonnenfeld himself.
Overall, if you enjoyed the first film then you'll like this, and vice versa. Personally I enjoy the darkly comic tone and consistent laughs that it produced, while the good performances across the board raise the material and provide some real joys in Julia and Ricci.