THE BEST
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993)
The light '60s TV comedy about a clan of ghoulish outcasts living in a creepy mansion was based on characters created by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams. This broad, often riotous sequel to 1991's The Addams Family plays on the contrast between the darkly funny Addamses and their blond, insufferably perky antagonists. The high point: Either the macabre attempts by Wednesday (a wicked Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) to kill their baby brother or their incendiary performance at a summer-camp pageant.
WHAT EW SAID: ''Wittier and more consistent than the first Addams Family movie.... Paul Rudnick's script offers sharp-edged variations on the topsy-turvy Addams worldview.'' B
