Addams Family Values

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

2024 / 94min / 35mm

Sonnenfeld’s sequel to his 1991 hit featuring the cast of characters introduced in Charles Addams’s gleefully grim New Yorker comics reunites that film’s cracking ensemble—including Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christina Ricci, and Christopher Lloyd as “Uncle” Fester —for a follow-up that fully delivers on the comic potential of the first film, distinguished by zestily camp performances, cinematic brio, a scabrous satire of all-smiles suburbia, and the addition of Joan Cusack as a black widow serial killer plotting to marry Fester and off him for his fortune. “One of the funniest, most mean-spirited satirical assaults on sunny American values since the salad days of W.C. Fields.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader