Monday’s Guilty Pleasure: Addams Family Values

May 9th, 2005

Filed under: General

Addams Family Values is another of those great “Guilty Pleasure” movies. Whenever I run across it while channel surfing, I have to stay and watch the rest of it. Everyone who stars in it was perfect in their roles, especially Anjelica Huston who simply nails the role of Morticia. While the first Addams Family movie was funny, I think this is one of those rare situations where the second movie outshines the first.

There are some wonderful lines. A favorite:

Morticia: Children, do you think that we love the baby more than we love you?
Wednesday, Pugsley: Yes.
Morticia: Do you think that when there’s a new baby in the house, one of the other children has to die?
Wednesday, Pugsley: Yes.
Grandma: Well that’s just not true – not anymore.

The icing on the cake is the “First Thanksgiving” pageant. In my humble opinion, this has to be one of the top five funniest scenes in film ever.

2 Responses to “ Monday’s Guilty Pleasure: Addams Family Values ”

  1. Woody!
    May 10th, 2005 at 8:53 pm

    The casting on those movies was brilliant. Even though this wasn’t as good as the first one and made me groan quite a bit, it was good entertainment “value.”

  2. Matthew Clark
    May 10th, 2005 at 10:32 pm

    One of my favourite quips goes something like:

    Woman: Isn’t he a Lady Killer!
    Gomez: Acquitted!

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