Is Addams Family Values the best movie sequel ever?

OP = Paul Rudnick

A holiday favorite!

I love it when Wednesday decries the script as lacking in the Aristotelian unities.

Watch it at least once a year ! "My name is Fester,it means to rot"

Mannequin 2>>>>>>>

But Debbie ... [italic]pastels?[/italic]

No.

Batman Returns

Godfather 2

Aliens

All are infinitely better films.

Terminator 2

Yes, it is.

They got my MAILIBUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Barbie. It wasn't who I was. They had to go.

Oscar worthy.... OP No wonder you think AF2 is the best sequel. You wouldn't know good script and performance if they came up and gave you a surprise anal. Each.

Why don't you just say you liked it.

Should have been nominated and won for Best Picture.

[italic] Schindler's List [/italic] was a little bit of a downer if you ask me!

Schindler's List would have been better if they used more pastels.

I thought it was good but the best ever? I don't know.

Schindler's List is all done with trick photography and fast cuts, like Chicago. And it's drab. Was there a sequel?

It is the rare sequel that is better than the original. (see discussion of this in Scream 2)

Godfather 2, Aliens (debatable) are the others usually mentioned.

Aliens was not better than Alien.

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

It was pretty good, but it was lopsidedly Wednesday-heavy. And the writing for her was sort of funny, but not that great.

After the third or fourth obvious "set up / punchline" it became so predictable that she stopped being funny.

Lesbos II: The Ovum's Return

^^^ which is not to say I don't still enjoy it, but the first one's still better.

I agree, Lesbos: the Quivering was better.

Dumb and Dumber was better than the original Dumb and Dumb.

[quote] Is Addams Family Values the best movie sequel ever?

I don't know about this. The [italic] Nutty Professor 2 [/italic] is a historic and cultural landmark. It was just entered into the National Film Registry.

I think Aliens was one of the best movie sequels, but Alien was still better. Maybe not one of the best, but X2 was way better than X-men.

Agreed about Aliens. I think that and Terminator 2 are probably the best sequels ever made.

I had the biggest crush on Christina Ricci as a little dyke, first of all in AFV and later on in CASPER and also NOW AND THEN. She was so smart and soft and together then, like a tough but sweet femme dream.

I wanted to be Kat’s girlfriend in CASPER so damn badly. Fuck Devon Sawa and his lips.

It is. I love this movie. Everyone in the movie has great lines. Excellent writing.

I love Debbie. Best villain death scene. And her multiple attempts to off Fester, and her practicing her crying in the car. "But officer! My husband was in that house!"

That is a *QUEEN* *ANNE* *CHANDELIER*!!!!!! Great sequel. So many quotable lines. I’d probably rank it second best sequel after Superman II.

Love that movie; Joan Cusack is brilliant but everyone is great.

I loved wednesday messing with those teenage frau bitches at camp.

I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all—a loving husband, a family ... I just wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.

MIss Debbieeeeee

"Stop it he's just a child!"

R13, true horror comes in color.

My favorite line is when Gomez tells Fester, "You ... are ... MISTER DEBBIE!"

[quote]Aliens was not better than Alien.

Truth.

‘ I seek justice—-DENIED!’ . ‘’My name is Gomez Addams and I’ve seen evil!!!”

I win.

It's a rare sequel that's better than the first. I've only seen the original once and didn't care for it, but this one...this one's hysterically funny. Joan Cusack should have been nominated for something for her performance.

"The Bride of Frankenstein" is the best movie sequel ever. It surpasses the original.

"We love playing with the baby."

"Especially his head."

Deb about Gomez: Isn't he a lady killer.

Gomez: Acquitted.

Morticia: "Do you think that when a new baby arrives, one of the other children has to die?"

Children: "Yes"

Granny: "That's just not true. *sigh* Not anymore."

In addition to the sequels mentioned - and I agree Aliens is better than Alien - there are these two from Sam Raimi:

Evil Dead II and Spiderman 2

The producers of the Broadway musical should have just paid up and used the screenplay as the foundation for the show.,it would have been a hit.

It is a very funny movie and the performances are universally great. Also a fan of Aliens. Of course, everyone slobbers all over Godfather II but I would watch either of these other two over it any time.

OP is wrong (Godfather Part II, Empire Strikes Back, Before Sunset, etc.), but “Addams Family Values” is probably the best sequel to a comedy.

Then again, comedy sequels are usually so dire that “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” counts as one of the better ones.

LOVE that movie. Love it to DEATH.

The Broadway musical was so awful. It had Morticia fearing aging. Morticia would love to age and rot and have her body get closer to death.

I found the first Addams Family movie very endearing for its knowledge of the original New Yorker cartoons, well-acted and visually superb, but the sequel is a laugh riot from beginning to end and there is simply not a dud performance or line in the whole thing. From what I have heard, Debbie was supposed to have been revealed in the final joke as a drag queen, but the producers felt that would be a step too far.

Aliens is an amazing film, but not better than Alien - for the simple reason that they are completely different takes on the genre. Alien is a horror film, Aliens is an action film. Both are masterpieces of their type.

Yes. The sequel was better than the first.

Joan Cusack's monologue at the end better be in her lifetime achievement award reel one day.

It's definitely one of the few sequels that's better than the original. Raul Julia's scene at the police station, Angelica Houston's "Pastels?", and pretty much every scene with Debbie or the kids are all so iconic. I don't think there's any scenes from the first movie that are as memorable.

R54, there were many very funny scenes and the role of Dr. Pinder-Schloss, as well as the wonderful ballroom scene at the family dance. But I agree that "Values" was funnier on a line by line basis

"I'll be the victim! I'll be the victim!"

"All your life."

R54 I remember nothing from the first movie

R56, the girl who said the victim line grew became Harmony from “Buffy” and “Angel.” So it turned out to be her life and her afterlife.

R58, I should have realized that before! She looked just like she did as a little girl but I never put the two things together.

I am a turkey. Eat me.

While looking at baby Pubert:

Gomez: He has my father's eyes!

Morticia: Gomez, take those out of his mouth.

I watched it over Halloween. It's even funnier to watch as an adult than as a kid. Definitely an improvement on its predecessor. The only misstep in the casting is Pugsley, but in fairness, he isn't actually given much to do (possibly because Wednesday is such a great character).

Anyway, how do you interpret the hand that shoots up from the grave at the end? Has Debbie been resurrected, even though she was reduced to ash? Or is another member of the family helping Wednesday play a prank on Joel? It can't be Thing because it has a forearm.

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