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'Addams' film humor runs dry at end
By Hillel Italle
REVIEW
The Associated Press
The first "Addams Family" movie was a major success, but it seemed less a movie than an extended parody. Much of the excitement came in the first few minutes, just at watching how much the actors resembled the more famous TV and cartoon characters. Having assembled an ideal cast, no one seemed to know what to do with it.
"Addams Family Values," the sequel, also fails to live up to feature-length standards, but it is both a funnier and more confident film. Rather than trying to play off the expectations of television viewers, the filmmakers only concern themselves with the previous movie: Topping it was no problem.
In a film full of great one-liners, the best joke may be the title. Moriccia has given birth to a baby Addams, whose mustache and slick, black hair duplicate his dashing father's. He is named Pubert and placed in a very special nursery, vultures looming from the wallpaper and a snarling stuffed bear perched over his cradle.
Believing the myth that once a family has three children, one of them must die, Wednesday and Pugsley decide Pubert is the best candidate. Their methods, to give them credit, are in the family tradition: aiming an anvil over his head, placing his neck under a guillotine, trying to find out whether Pubert or a cannonball can fall faster to the ground.
Gomez and Morticia decide their kids need supervision and hire a nanny (Joan Cusack). She is a sexy blonde who at first seems innocently flaky, but is soon revealed (to the audience) that she is the murderer of richly, lonely rich. And by her bedside, and all over her walls, are newspaper clippings of Uncle Fester.
The "Addams" creative team — producer Scott Rudin, director Barry Sonnenfeld and writer Paul Rudnick
— clearly have improved on the first movie. The satire is sharper, and they wisely have expanded the role of Christina Ricci's unforgettable Wednesday.
The rest of the cast also works well: Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as the ever-romantic Gomez and Morticia; Christopher Lloyd as the manic, ghollish Fester, his voice as raspy as
Jimmy Durante's, Jimmy Workman as Pugsley; Carel Struycken as Lurch and Carol Kane as the grandmother. Cusack, alternately plotting murder and begging for love, again proves herself a gifted screwball comic.
But after a great first half, jokes and special effects flying with the speed of Gomez flinging knives across the living room, "Addams Family Values" wears down and barely makes it to the finish. The filmmakers still don't know how to tell a story, straining too hard to tie all up loose ends. While "Addams Family Values" is a fun, off-beat "family film," its heart remains in the world of television.
"Addams Family Values" is a Paramount Pictures release, rated PG-13. Its running time is 94 minutes.
MUSIC
BESTSELLERS
Weekly chart for the nation's best-selling recorded music as it appears in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold. Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold.
TOP SINGLES
VIDEOS
Copyright 1993, Billboard-Soundscan Inc.
Broadcast Data Systems.
1. "I Told Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," Meatloaf (MCA) (Platinum)
2. *Ajain* *at* *tain* (10:00) *Ianah*
3. *Ajain*, *Janet Jackson* (*Virgin*)
3. "All That She Wants," Ace of Base (Arista)
(Gold)
4. "Gangsta Lean," DRS (Capitol)
6. "Just Kickit it," Xscape (So So Def) (Gold)
7. "Whoomp! (There It Is);" Tag Team (Life)
(Platinum)
Weekly chart for the nation's most popular videos as it appears in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission.
1. "Rise Forgive Me," Bryan Adams (A&M)
9. "Hero," Mariahe Carey (Columbia)
10. "Hey Mr. D.J.," Zhane (Flavor Unit) (Gold)
11. "Breathe Again," Toni Braxton (Laface)
12. "Can We Talk," Tevin Campbell (Qwest)
13. "Dreamlover," Mariah Carey (Columbia)
(Platinum)
14. "Said I Loved You ... But I Lied," Michael Bolton (Columbia)
15. "Keep Ya Head Up," 2Pac (Interscope)
VIDEO SALES
2. "Dennis the Menace," (Warner)
4. "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, (Disney)
3. "Tom and Jerry: The Movie," (Family Home Entertainment)
5. "The Muppet Christmas Carol," (Disney)
7. "Pinocchio." (Disney)
8. "Playboy Wet & Wild V," (Playboy)
9. "Ren & Stimpy: The Classics." (Nickelodeon)
10. The Last of the Mountains, (Fox
11. "Beauty and the Beast" (Disney)
12. "Under Siege," (Warner)
13. Once Upon a Forest, (Fox)
14. "Hannah Gets Afraid" (Fox)
15. "Playboy Playmate of the Year 1993." (Play-
16. "Prince: The Hits Collection," (Warner Reprise)
17. "Ren & Stimpy: The Stinktest Stories," (Nick- elodon).
18. "Gift," (Warner Reprise)
19. "Playboy Celebrity Centerfold: Jessica
Urbz" (Parker)
20. "Playboy's Secret Confessions," (Playboy)
BOOKS
Best-selling books as they appear in next week's issue of Publishers Weekly. Reprinted with permission.
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "See, I Told You So," Rush Limbaugh (Pocket Books)
3. "SeinLanguage," Jerry Seinfeld (Bantam)
2. "PrIVATE Parts," Howard Stern (Simon and Schuster)
4. "The Hidden Life of Dogs," Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (HoughtonMifflin)
5. "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now." Mava Angelou (RandomHouse)
6. "Stop The Insanity," Susan Powter (Simon and Schuster)
7. "Embraced By The Light," Betty J. Eadie (Goldel Press)
8. "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus." John Gray (Harper Collins)
9. "The Downing Street Years," Margaret Thatcher (Harper Collins)
10. "A Marriage Made In Heaven ... Or, Too Tired For An Affair," Erma Bombeck (Harper Collins)
Compiled from The Associated Press
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