Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #85: Addams family values

Genre: Comedy/Horror/Horreur/Comedie

Annee/Year: 1993

Format: DVD

Addams family values. A sequel to The Addams family may not have sounded like a great idea but bear with it and you will not regret it. This movie, like the original one, has not aged a bit. The excellent FX still look good enough in this gothic tale of a very special family. How can we continue on a good story? well add a new baby in the household and a murderous women falling in love with uncle Fester and you have an explosive mix.

This movie has one of the best witty script written for a comedie without falling in the stupid funny. I was laughing about some jokes on the next day thinking back on it. (ok sometimes i am not the quickest). Barry Sonnenfeld directed the movie (he also directed the first one as well as both Men in Black movies and many more). The casting is at the highest level with Raul Julia, Angelica Huston (sexiest couple of film?), Christopher Loyd (Prof from back to the future), Christina Ricci and Joan Cussack. This is a movie you can watch over and over. My 12 year old loved the two movies and never knew they were almost 20 yrs old by now...

Bien que plus difficile a trouver en traduction française, ce film est une comédie des plus réussie. Même s’il s'agit d'une seconde partie d'un bon film; il ne lui perd rien. Faut voir si les comédies noires et gothiques vous plaisent.

Great quotes:

Debbie Jellinsky: These Addams men, where do you find them?
Morticia: It has to be damp.
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[about baby Pubert] Gomez: He has my father's eyes.
Morticia: Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
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Gomez: [to Fester] You'll meet someone. Someone very special. Someone who won't press charges.
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[the dancer in the cake doesn't pop out] Gomez: That poor girl. Lurch, was she in there before you baked? [Lurch hangs his head]
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Wednesday: Pugsley, the baby weighs ten pounds, the cannonball weighs twenty pounds. Which will hit the stone walkway first?
Pugsley: I'm still on fractions.
Wednesday: Which do you think?
Pugsley: The cannonball?
Wednesday: Very good. But which one will bounce?
Pugsley: The baby?
Wednesday: There's only one way to find out. Ready? One... two... three.
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Pugsley: It's a boy.
Wednesday: It's a girl.
Uncle Fester: Gomez!
Grandma: What news?
Wednesday: Father, what is it?
Gomez: [just upon returning from the hospital room, bursting] It's an Addams!
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Young Girl: And then Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork, and the stork flew down from heaven, and left a diamond under a leaf, in the cabbage patch, and the diamond turned into a baby!
Pugsley: Our parents are having a baby too.
Wednesday: They had sex.


Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106220/

Rating perso: 8.0/10