"Addams Family Values" involves not one but three subplots, all of them funny and one of them (about the birth of a new baby boy) the source of one great sight gag after another. Maybe I liked it more than the original because I was in a different mood? Perhaps, knowing I was going to see twee little MacAulay Culkin in " The Nutcracker" right after seeing this film, I was in the mood for macabre bad taste? Or perhaps the screenplay, by Paul Rudnick, contains more invention than the 1991 effort. Nothing much seems to have changed the stars are about the same, the director is still Barry Sonnenfeld, the Addams mansion still towers above a blasted heath, next to a graveyard. Sure, it makes me laugh but it also influenced how I later became a husband and father-and often makes me ask myself WWGD-what would Gomez do? Well written, funny and fun.It's the rare sequel that is better than its original, and yet "Addams Family Values" qualifies. All in all, the show wasn't just comedy and weirdness but a fantastic prototype for how the American family could or should be. As for the kids, despite being total weirdos, they were really decent kids. While her libido didn't seem quite as strong, it was VERY strong for a 1960s woman-and she was a loving and gentle mother. He adored her-setting a wonderful example for the kids. But, more importantly, he was the first husband who loved his wife sexually. I AM recommending you look at the relationships between the characters. Now I am NOT recommending folks have pet lions, eat eye of newt, have model trains that blow up, sleep on beds of nails and the like. He was a radical and wonderful husband-and the Addams', believe it or not, were a very healthy family that could be emulated. It's funny, but when I ask friends my age who was the best TV dad of the 1960s, I often get the answer 'Gomez Addams' or if I mention him, they then agree with me wholeheartedly.
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